October 3rd, 2012

Jumio’s Credit Card Scanning Technology Pops Up in Travelocity’s Hotel Deals App

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Jumio, the computer vision startup backed by $32 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Eduardo Saverin and others, is today announcing the first travel application to integrate its Netswipe technology. The app involved is the recently launched Hotel Deals by lastminute.com from Travelocity, which now allows users to hold up their credit card to their phone’s camera in order to pay at… → Read More

July 26th, 2011

Jumio Turns Webcams Into Credit Card Readers – And Why Merchants Will Welcome ‘Netswipers’

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If it were up to Jumio, we’re all going to be ‘netswiping’ to purchase books, clothes, travel, FarmVille crops and whatnot online in a couple of years. The startup has been extensively testing its digital payments service in private beta mode since last year, when Jajah founder Daniel Mattes started teasing whatever they were building.

The startup has since assembled an impressive advisory… → Read More