To kick off 2020, one of Europe’s newer — and more successful — investment firms has closed a fresh, oversubscribed fund, one sign that VC in the region will continue to run strong i
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Once again, we're packaging some of the top news of the week in a quick-to-digest video format. If you missed some o
<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/zong-picture.jpeg" class="shot2">eBay has <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110707005650/en/eBay-Acquire-Zong">acquired</a> m
<img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0002/4680/24680v4-max-250x250.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" /><a href="http://www.zong.com">Zong</a> has been one of the pioneers in
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There's been much hype, crazy valuations, and overall market excitement about businesses that promise to unleash the power o
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/bok.png" class="shot2">Fresh off an <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/27/andreessen-horowitz-makes-strategic-investmemt-in-mobile-paymen
<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/boku.jpg" class="shot2" /><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/boku-launches-makes-some-mobile-purchases-for-mobile-payments/">Recentl
<img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0002/4680/24680v4-max-250x250.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" />We've been <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zong">tracking</
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Mobile payments for micro-transactions on the web are steadily <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/01
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<a href="http://www.zong.com/zong/">Zong</a> has seen tremendous growth over the past year fro
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Over the past year, we've written frequently about mobile payments startu
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Mobile payments for micro-transactions on the web are <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009
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While advertising revenues have been disappointingly low for most applications on Fa
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Global mobile payments network <a href="http://www.paymo.com/">Paymo</a> and social ne
<img alt="" />Users are increasingly choosing dead simple SMS mobile payments for micro-transactions on social network applications and gaming sites (it fills the void while they wait for <a href="htt
<a href="http://www.zong.com/"><img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/zong-logo.png" alt="" class="shot" /></a>Mobile payments startup <a href="http://www.zong.com/">Zong</a>, whi
Loren Feldman’s puppet video show, which parodies a video interview show run by Shel Israel called Global Neighborhoods, has landed an official sponsor, Feldman says. Meanwhile, Global Neighborh