Spendvision has announced the availability of its new eMoney module, allowing businesses to capture, manage and report on purchases made by employees using NFC technology.

Designed to give businesses better insight into employee expenses, the module enables eMoney transactions to be integrated with all other types of transactions, making it easier for staff to record all expenses regardless of the payment method used. 

Tyfone has announced that it will provide its suite of mobile wallet services to CoVantage Credit Union (CVCU).

CVCU will use Tyfone’s technology to offer customers contactless mobile payments via a memory card through its nine branches in Wisconsin and Michigan. According to Tyfone, the the secure element in the memory card enables CVCU to dictate the financial service without interference from the mobile operator. 

Toppan Forms and Hewlett-Packard Japan have announced a partnership to help improve the contactless payments infrastructure in Japan and lower the costs for merchants and businesses to offer e-money services.

Toppan Forms will supply its system equipment development technology for contactless smart cards and HP Japan will offer its IC Chip Access Server for FeliCa in order to create a cloud service that will make it possible for businesses to introduce contactless payments without having to make heavy upfront investments, according to the partners. 

Turkcell has announced the official launch of its new NFC-enabled T20 smart phone.

Developed alongside Chinese telecom Huawei, the UICC and SWP equipped T20 will enable users to conduct contactless mobile payments via Turkcell’s MasterCard PayPass-enabled mobile wallet service, Turkcell Cep-T Cüzdan. 

Gemalto has announced that it will provide its Optelio contactless stickers to UniCredit Slovakia for the country’s first commercial mobile payment deployment.

The technology will enable UniCredit Slovakia customers to turn their regular handsets into contactless payment devices by simply attaching the Optello sticker. Users can make contactless tap and go payments of up to €20 at over 3,000 MasterCard acceptance points across Slovakia, including fast food restaurants, cinemas, supermarkets and other retail outlets. 

FIME has announced that its smart device and chip-based application testing facility has achieved GlobalPlatform qualified status.

This certification extends to FIME’s tools and laboratory and allows it to test cards’ compliance to GlobalPlatform’s UICC configurations for the mobile sector. 

It has been revealed that the Android app for Google’s new social networking site, Google Plus, features support for NFC tag reading, according to Readwriteweb.com.

Singapore-based developer Ridzuan Ashim, who posted the video above, demonstrates how placing an NFC phone with a Google Plus App over an NFC tag will prompt whatever is written on the tag to pop up on the app’s “Share your thoughts” screen, which is normally used to post status updates to your Google Plus profile.