Zibby Funding
Zibby, the fully-integrated lease-to-own payment option for online shopping, has raised more than $10M in equity and debt financing. Cognical is the company behind Zibby.
Flint Mobile integrates Intuit Online
Flint Mobile announced the integration of its no-card-reader mobile payment app with Intuit’s QuickBooks Online, expediting end-to-end operations for small businesses that work outside traditional storefront environments.
Flint is the only mobile phone-based payment app that automatically syncs all transactions, line item information and customer information with the user’s QuickBooks Online account, eliminating manual data entry while also providing detailed reporting and customer history tracking not available with other platform integrations. These features extend Flint’s benefits for mobile business management, including the ability to take payments by scanning the card number with the camera instead of swiping with extra hardware, send invoices for easy online bill payment, handle cash and checks as well as card payments, and manage customized coupons with Apple Passbook integration. Merchants can begin accepting payments instantly with no need for a merchant account or waiting period for hardware delivery.
Flint Mobile Payments
Flint Mobile today announced the integration of its no-card-reader mobile payment app with Intuit’s QuickBooks Online. Flint is the only mobile phone-based payment app that automatically syncs all transactions, line item information and customer information with the user’s QuickBooks Online account, eliminating manual data entry while also providing detailed reporting and customer history tracking not available with other platform integrations.
Zynga Brings Scramble With Friends to Google Play
Zynga, the world’s leading provider of social game services, today announced that Scramble With Friends is now available on Google Play – enabling even more players to get mixed up with the fun. The latest mobile game from Zynga’s ‘With Friends’ franchise, Scramble With Friends’ cross-platform availability will give players who already love a good…
MasterCards Featured in an Original Movie
MasterCard and ABC Family have teamed up on an original movie due to premiere next week that takes scripted integration to a whole new level. The “RELATIVE CHAOS” movie will integrate various MasterCard products. MasterCard has also partnered with ABC Family on an extensive marketing campaign including print, TV and online media support. The movie about sibling rivalry features Christopher Gorham, Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter and Terry Bradshaw. ABC Family distributes its movies to 89 million homes. Two weeks ago MasterCard premiered a two-minute mini-drama via the Turner Network Television. The piece, titled “Late,” is also embedded in TNT on Demand and available for download via TNT.tv, MasterCard’s Priceless.com and TNT on AOL. (CF Library 8/17/06)
TNT to Premiere a MasterCard Mini-Drama
MasterCard will premiere a two-minute mini-drama this weekend via Turner Network Television. The piece, titled “Late,” will also be embedded in TNT on Demand and available for download via TNT.tv, MasterCard’s Priceless.com and TNT on AOL. “Late” shows a 20-something male driving along a busy street to deliver a pile of cash and he stops to buy a briefcase using his MasterCard. The drama centers around the suspenseful delivery of the cash. “Late” premieres within the film “Runaway Jury” on TNT August 19th. After the premiere presentation, “Late” will air again on TNT the following four weekends, during the TNT “Drama Lounge” featured film. The partnership with TNT and MasterCard was created by MasterCard’s media agency GSD&M.
MC & AmEx Gear Up for the Oscars
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TNB Card Services Gets an Award
Dallas-based TNB Card Services has received a “Champions of Industry Award” for 2004. The award recognizes TNB Card Services’ dedication to customer service, its community involvement, its technology and marketing innovations, and its stability. TNB Card Services was formed in 1976, the year after a consortium of credit unions bought Town North Bank and launched the card services division as a way to gain membership in the forerunners to today’s MasterCard and Visa associations. Since then, TNB Card Services has provided a wide range of credit card processing, management, and marketing services to hundreds of credit union clients around the country. TNB Card Services provides full-service credit and debit card processing, as well as an agent issuing solution for credit unions nationwide.
Lucky Strike
Bingo and Gaming International announced Thursday that the Los Angeles Superior Court has ruled that the ‘Lucky Strike’ machines are not gambling devices. The machines, which resemble the one-armed bandits sell pre-paid phone cards. At the same time of purchase, the machines enter the customer in a promotional sweepstakes which offers cash prizes from $1 to $1,000. What makes this legal is the fact that no purchase is necessary to play and the odds of winning are posted on the side of the machine. Look for the ‘Lucky Strike’ pre-paid phone card vending machines to start appearing by the years end.
Lucky Strike Phone Card Dispensers
Bingo & Gaming International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BING), announced today that it has signed an agreement with Prestige Distributing, Inc. of Guthrie, Oklahoma to distribute its Lucky Strike Pre-Paid Phone Card Dispenser. The agreement gives Prestige Distributing, Inc. the exclusive distribution rights for the state of Oklahoma for this cartridge based, video enhanced phone card dispenser.
The Lucky Strike Pre-Paid Phone Card Dispenser vends a two-minute phone card with a promotional sweepstakes game piece attached. Cash prizes up to $1000 are paid at the retail location.
“The Lucky Strike Prepaid Phone Card Dispenser will do as well in Oklahoma, as it has done in Texas. We feel fortunate to have an aggressive distributor in Oklahoma who has experience and contacts in both charitable and Indian Bingo operations. Barry Cogburn understands the market, has a vision of the potential of the Lucky Strike Prepaid Phone Card Dispenser, and will work diligently to secure locations for the dispensers. His first installation has already exceeded our goal of $250 per day per unit, and this was achieved on their first day in service,” stated Bingo & Gaming International’s CEO Reid Funderburk.
“A HOME RUN!!!!” … that’s how Barry Cogburn, President of Prestige Distributing described his first night of operating the Lucky Strike Phone Card Dispensers. “Lines of anxious customers were waiting for Lucky Strike Phone Card Dispensers to become available at our first bingo hall installation here in Guthrie on November 1st. We have other locations lined up and anticipate placing hundreds of phone card dispensers throughout the state of Oklahoma. These machines, combining the sale of a popular prepaid phone card with a McDonald’s type promotional sweepstakes game, will be a hit throughout the state,” concluded Cogburn.