Facebook Launches Easier Payments For Mobile Web

Facebook wants to make mobile payments easier, and said it is working with AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, T-Mobile USA, Verizon, Vodafone, KDDI, and Softbank Mobile on ways to streamline mobile transactions.

Facebook wants to make mobile payments easier, and said it is working with AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, T-Mobile USA, Verizon, Vodafone, KDDI, and Softbank Mobile on ways to streamline mobile transactions.

When developers incorporate Facebook’s pay dialog into their apps, this functionality will automatically be enabled where carriers support it.

Facebook joined the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core Community Group, in which more than 30 hardware manufacturers, carriers, and developers aim to improve and standardize mobile browsers.

The social network also said it would make its mobile browser test suite, Ringmark, available to the group to help it with testing which mobile browsers support the functionality in their applications.

And

AW+

WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.

Subscribe today!

To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber

View Subscription Options

Already a member? Sign in