{"id":4448,"date":"2012-03-28T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2012-03-28T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T18:26:08","slug":"the-billion-dollar-fight-for-control-of-mobile-money-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4448","title":{"rendered":"The billion-dollar fight for control of mobile money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2012\/03\/the-billion-dollar-fight-for-control-of-mobile-money.ars\">Matthew Braga:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Mobile payments&#8221; is about as unsexy as technology buzzwords get. We&#8217;re basically talking about phones and money. And it&#8217;s hard enough to get people excited about money in the first place\u2014unless you&#8217;re receiving large sums of it, that is\u2014let alone using a phone to make or spend it.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>But it is exciting! Trust us. And there&#8217;s a reason why you&#8217;re going to be hearing a lot more about mobile commerce before this year is done.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nThe philosophy behind mobile payments is simple; it&#8217;s the idea that everyone should have the ability to buy anything, anywhere. And it sounds a lot better\u2014not to mention sexier\u2014when explained that way. Because, beyond all the oddly shaped geometrical dongles and near-field communication magic, that&#8217;s essentially what the likes of Square, PayPal, Google et al want to do.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Braga: &#8220;Mobile payments&#8221; is about as unsexy as technology buzzwords get. We&#8217;re basically talking about phones and money. And it&#8217;s hard enough to get people excited about money in the first place\u2014unless you&#8217;re receiving large sums of it, that is\u2014let alone using a phone to make or spend it. But it is exciting! Trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4449,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}