Fifteen months ahead of the presidential election, a number of the 17 Republicans vying for their party’s nomination have invested considerable energy courting Silicon Valley. Sourced through Scoop.it from: dailycaller.com

The USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has put an end to Kyle Bass’s Ampyra patent challenge, by denying institution of Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.natlawreview.com

About US$1tn will be spent using mobile payments services in 2017, up 124% from less than US$500bn expected in 2015, International Data Corporation says Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.nfcworld.com

Comcast Eases Mobile Payments Broadcasting & Cable Comcast said millions of its subscribers already view and pay their bills online or using the MSO’s mobile app, but the MSO is now trying to remove more friction from the process via…

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Fully converting payments to electronic and adopting mobile/digital payments priority for clients at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Conference on Payments Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.nfcworld.com

The agreement enables Global Payments to provide white-labeled mobile payment products to its U.S. clients through Apriva’s mobile payments solution, AprivaPay Plus. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com

Mobile payments will be worth $1 trillion in 2017, up from $500 billion this year according to a new report by IDC. The growth is expected to be majorly Sourced through Scoop.it from: go-mashmobile.com

Standard Chartered Bank has partnered with mobile payments service MoMo to launch the bank’s Straight2Bank Wallet system in Vietnam. Sourced through Scoop.it from: ibsintelligence.com

Which mobile payment service has the best chance of succeeding, Apple Pay or Android Pay? eWEEK looks at how the two measure up in terms of features and value. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.eweek.com