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Send allows instant disbursements - imagine payments from insurance companies that land to your bank account nearly instantly - and P2P payments that let consumers "seamlessly send and receive funds from friends and family typically within seconds through providers including issuers, money transfer operators, merchants and more."

PayPal's next generation payment platforms.  person to person "bump" payments and transfers, location based offers that instantly transfer real dollars to your PayPal account for use in a certain store, barcode scanning with price referencing, QR code check-out, instant scan to pay from barcodes to skip the cash register line and a full post-checkout money management platform that let's you choose how to pay, after you've actually paid for it.

"The electronic banking kiosks may soon include features like biometric scanning to identify customers and be able to sync with an app that will allow customers to withdraw money remotely and simply pick up the money when they are ready."

Adaptu Wallet links accounts, monitors spending and calculates future expenses to give users an accurate read of how much money they currently have.

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Solaliland (not a formally recognized country with non-formally-recognized currency) will be the first country to extinguish cash they have no ATMs, locals think credit cards are ridiculous really interesting

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Kellogg's is using a "Tweet shop" in London's Soho to promote its new product, Cracker Crisps. The idea is customers "pay" for a packet by tweeting a message about the snack to their friends and followers. Customers sample their wares in a "try before you buy" area and write their Twitter review. The Special K representatives then check every customer's tweet before handing over a 60p packet of crisps.

- Women outnumber men on the social network, 58 percent to 42 percent. - However, marketers spend more money targeting men, 53 percent to 47 percent. - Men are exposed to and click on more Facebook ads - 58 percent to 42 percent, and 60 percent to 40 percent, respectively. - On average, ads targeting men cost less in terms of cost per thousand impressions ($0.16 male versus $0.20 female) and cost per click ($0.51 versus $0.68), - Ads targeting men achieved superior exposure rates, reaching a larger percentage of their unique audiences.

"Publishers seem to have no end to their appetite for apps. This year through October, 9,125 publication-related apps were released for the iPad, twice the number released in the year-ago period, according to McPheters & Co.'s iMonitor app-tracking service. Hearst led publishers with the most number of apps (89), followed by Time Warner, Condé Nast, Future Media and Bonnier Corp. But as publishers expand to more and more platforms, they're pulling back on the number of costly and time-consuming enhancements, as are advertisers. That's unfortunate, since not only readers are more likely to read enhanced ads, they mean more money in publishers' coffers."

"BMW last year invested in the mobile app MyCityWay, and soon it will find if that was money well spent as its eco-friendly Born Electric road show rolls into New York. The luxury automaker next week will run locally targeted display and video ads on the city- guide app, which developers said has 1.2 million users in Gotham."

Cashing in on social interaction?

We've seen numerous mobile apps designed to improve drivers' safety on the road, but Automatic takes what may well be the most comprehensive approach to date. With the help of a small device that plugs into the car, the Automatic app monitors that car's health, makes money-saving driving tips, remembers where the car is parked and more. Users begin by plugging the Automatic Link device into their car's data port; it supports every gasoline-engine car made since 1996, its San Francisco-based maker says. Once that's done, the car and smartphone will automatically connect wirelessly whenever the user takes a trip. Among the services Automatic provides along the way are driving suggestions for better fuel efficiency, trip timelines including miles per gallon, and automatic crash detection as well as sending alerts to 911 and loved ones. Also available are engine-health monitoring and parking reminders. Pricing is USD 69.95. The video below explains the premise in more detail: