Someday, a driven entrepreneur will devise the perfect mobile payment technology. You won’t need to charge it up, and it won’t require a companion app. Source: betaboston.com

A new eMarketer report examines the market for mobile payments in Canada, and what the potential is for growth in a country that already has significant point-of-sale infrastructure in place to accommodate such payments. Source: http://www.emarketer.com

Many disruptive technologies come from startups, but just as many seem to come from companies that have been around for decades. Source: http://www.paymentssource.com

Retailers can now deliver invoices directly to individual customers through Bindo’s new invoicing feature. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

South African MNO customers can purchase applications from Samsung’s Galaxy Apps store and charge it directly to their mobile phone bill or airtime. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

Some 47 percent of mobile users in the U.K. would like to use their mobile phone more to pay for physical or quasi-physical goods and services. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

Mark Ranta from ACI Worldwide believes payment apps need to focus on the experience and create new experiences that are meaningfully better than the ones we have today. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

Italian cuts trigger protests at La Scala opening night Source: kazakh-tv.kz

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President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited on Dec. 4 South Kazakhstan and its capital Shymkent, which is Kazakhstan’s third most populous city and is expected to become a national economic and cultural centre. Source: http://www.astanatimes.com