Online and mobile payment platform Dwolla just launched a new feature called “Proxi” which allows users to send and receive cash-based mobile payments based on their current proximity to another connected device.
The technology bypasses the need for special hardware, like Square’s plastic dongles or NFC chips built into a phone, in order to make mobile payments, and operates on a peer-to-peer basis.
Dwolla Launches “Proxi” For Proximity-Based Mobile Payments
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Dwolla Launches “Proxi” For Proximity-Based Mobile Payments
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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