The largest taxi company in Taiwan, Taiwan-taxi 台灣大車隊 turns to Visa Paywave for the payment of taxi fares that usually range from the minimum fee of NT$70 (US$ 2 - EUR 1.6) to NT$400 (US$ 12.5 - EUR 9.5). The case for contactless payment in taxi seems indeed quite obvious: fares represent small amounts, taxi [...]

Nokia has extended its push into Internet services with the acquisition of small Berlin-based social networking start-up Plazes. Plazes, with a headcount of 13, provides location-aware services that people can use to plan, record and share their social activities. Nokia will integrate this service into its own handsets. The Finnish vendor did not disclose financial [...]