Bango wins wider contract with Microsoft across Windows 10
5th Jan 2016 07:55
(ShareCast News) - Bango has won an expanded contract with Microsoft to integrate the AIM-listed mobile payments company's technology across all the technology giants Windows 10 devices. The 110m-plus users of Windows 10, be they using a desktop computer, tablet or smartphone will now be able to buy
Read moreBango boosted by Apple direct carrier billing speculation
29th Oct 2015 11:38
(ShareCast News) - Shares in Bango have risen after Apple's German iTunes site began to adopt direct carrier billing, a means of charging digital content to mobile customers via additions to their phone bill. Apple's initial adoption of direct carrier billing, also known as mobile network operator (
Read moreBango boosts carrier billing
25th Jun 2015 10:09
Mobile payment company Bango said on Thursday that it has recently launched carrier billing routes for its app store partners in several additional markets, "underlining the role of the Bango Payment Platform at the heart of the growing global app store economy". It said that carrier billing through
Read moreBango's user spendng growth in line with expectations
27th May 2015 14:09
Shares in mobile payment company Bango rose on Wednesday after saying its user spend is growing in line with expectations. The group added that it believes it will achieve its forecasts of 100% growth in user spend to £65m for the year. Bango said in March that it had 30 activations schedualed for
Read moreBango end user sales soar but losses widen after billing rejig
10th Mar 2015 11:47
As mobile app stores continue to increasing their sales of digital content using direct carrier billing, Bango has seen end user spend via its technology increase 62% to £25.2m last year and said it expects this to more than double in 2015. The majority of end user spend growth came from the initial
Read moreBango announces collaboration with Amazon and Telefónica Deutschland
17th Sep 2014 09:25
Bango, the mobile payments company, has announced that it will be working with Amazon and Telefónica Deutschland for carrier billing services on Telefónica's network in Germany. The service will be deployed gradually through next year on certain Amazon mobile applications running on Telefónica devi
Read moreSector movers: Aveva profit warning sinks software stocks
12th Sep 2014 13:52
A profit warning from Aveva sent the UK-listed software sector firmly into the red on Friday with the FTSE 250 losing as much as a quarter of its value. The stock was down 24.6% in afternoon trade after Aveva added to the list of problems affecting its first-half results. Currency movements and the
Read moreBango seals deal with Middle East mobile giant Etisalat
5th Jun 2014 14:43
Mobile payments company Bango has agreed a deal with telecoms conglomerate Etisalat to allow the network's customers across Asia, the Middle East and Africa to buy music, films, games and other paid-for apps via a single click of their phones. The direct operator billing service, which often makes
Read moreBango losses mount but end user spend and pipeline swells
18th Mar 2014 14:58
Losses increased at mobile app payments facilitator Bango in 2013 as the company rolled out its technology with mobile network operators (MNO) and app stores including Google. Bango has now completed more than 120 direct MNO integrations around the world and integrated three of these with Google Pl
Read moreBango jumps on Google mobile progress
5th Nov 2013 12:56
Shares in Bango regained momentum on news of increased end-user spending and progress integrating its mobile payment technology with Google's app store. The stage-by-stage roll-out with Google has seen two mobile networks in Canada integrate Bango's technology with Google Play for launch in coming
Read moreBango rolls out African mobile payment tool
8th Oct 2013 11:34
Mobile phone payments developer Bango has teamed up with an African partner to develop a technology specifically suited to the continent's payment culture. The AIM-listed company and Nigeria-based Mobile Media Info Tech (MMIT) have launched M-Iflo as a tool to allow anyone to make mobile payments
Read moreBango widens first half losses
17th Sep 2013 10:53
Bango's shares fell after the mobile web payments and analytics company said it widened losses in first half. Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) came in at a loss of £1.18m, compared to last year's loss of £0.98m. Losses per share rose to 3.87p from 3.
Read moreBango launches first mobile one-click billing with Microsoft
27th Jun 2013 12:45
Mobile web payments developer Bango and Microsoft have together launched Bango's direct operator billing on the Windows Phone. Bango also revealed that daily end user spend for the first half of the financial year was now expected to be double the end user spend for the previous six months. Users
Read moreBango jumps on payment services deal with Mozilla
3rd Jun 2013 12:57
Bango, the AIM-listed mobile web payments and analytics company, has signed a global payments services agreement with Mozilla Corporation. In an update issued on Monday, the company said that operators could select Bango to provide billing, collection and settlement for content purchased through F
Read moreSpotting the winners in mobile payments
5th Apr 2013 16:01
Forty years ago this week, the first call was made on a mobile phone. With talk-time limited to just 35 minutes in those days and no screens to speak of, shopping and banking on your phone was definitely not on the cards - even slipping those mighty 'brick' handsets into your pockets was pretty much
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