Another big win for Obopay as they push to conquer the African market. Their partners in crime are local telecommunications service provider Essar Telecom Kenya Limiteds yu branded mobile network and Equity Bank, who have a large countrywide network. The service is branded yuCash by Obopay and its positioned to change the landscape of mobile money

Highlights: •yu unveils mobile money transfer service branded yuCash by Obopay •yuCash by Obopay is launching in Kenya and will be an Africa wide platform •yuCash has partnered with Equity Bank (which has one of the largest branch networks in Kenya) and Obopay (a leading player in mobile banking and payments technology provisioning internationally). •Unique set of customer-centric benefits...

Mobile payment company Obopay now has an iPhone client. The dedicated application features include: Send money to anyone with a US phone number Send money to your kids or anyone 13 years of age or older and track how they spend the money all from your iPhone View full transaction history Receive money free of charge regardless of how

Obopay, a start up that specializes in mobile payments, today announced plans roll out an app called Mobile Payments for the iPhone on Thursday. With the application, the company said users will be able to send money using their...

Carol Realini, CEO of Calif.-based Obopay, recently spoke with Investors Business Daily (IBD) about mobile banking and how she got the idea for her four-year-old company while in Kenya in 2002. I walked into a prepaid cell phone store in Kinshasa, and it looked exactly like a bank. People were standing in line with bags of money. The currency had been devalued, so it took basically a shopping bag ...

Investor's Business Daily - Mobile phone banking presents a "mega market opportunity," says Carol Realini, CEO of Redwood City, Calif.-based Obopay.

Citibank and Mobile Money Ventures are teaming for a launch in China. Obopay has extended its reach into the mobile gaming market. Vodafone pushes for mobile paymets in India. Zong has launched a new service to allow users to use their mobile for card-based payments

Two online payment start-ups, Zong and Obopay announced this week that customers can now link their credit or debit card numbers to their cellphone numbers on Zong and Obopay’s Web sites. Bits Blog reports. Then, when they are shopping for digital goods on certain Web sites, they simply need to enter their 10-digit phone number to buy something instead of being re-directed to a separate Web page ...

Looks like Obopay isnt the only parter Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is going to be working with on providing mobile payments. Today Nokia signed a 5 year agreement with TANLA, an Indian company, to provide a mobile payment service to enable on device transactions. Tanlas service works in 160 countries and can use both operator billing and credit card billing. This agreement further highlights our strong trac...

Looks like Obopay isnt the only parter Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is going to be working with on providing mobile payments. Today Nokia signed a 5 year agreement with TANLA, an Indian company, to provide a mobile payment service to enable on device transactions. Tanlas service works in 160 countries and can use both operator billing