TORO SELECTED AS FINALIST FOR SESAMES INNOVATION AWARD
Akami™ competes for best mobile application.
Hong Kong, November 9th 2009 – TORO, the pure player for NFC mobile platform development, is pleased to announce that their product AKAMI™ as been selected as a finalist for the prestigious SESAMES INNOVATION AWARDS in the MOBILE category.
“We are proud [...]

Toro is finalist for the Sesames awards at Cartes 2009 category mobile

Taipei City in innovating with the (very fast) deployment of the “U-bike” system, almost identical to the Vélib‘ system launched in Paris with great success on 15 July 2007. The service provider is Taishin Bank (!), the bikes themselves are manufactured by local world leader Giant and the payment system is managed by TSCC. The [...]

“Visa Europe will spend around EUR 10 million in 2009 to equip retailers with appropriate reading terminals which can accept payments made via Visa payWave contactless cards, reports Euroactiv.com citing the CEO of Visa Europe Peter Ayliffe.
The majority of readers are being distributed in the UK, followed by Italy and Turkey, France, Germany, Poland, Spain [...]

NearFieldCommunicationsworld.com just posted an article about the fast growing of NFC forum, talked about all the new members joined NFC forum and the upgraded membership recently. And TORO is among the new comers, just between Sagem Mobiles and Toshiba. You can see the article here.
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory has joined as a Principal Member alongside a [...]

TORO was mentioned in the ING press conference. from Toro on Vimeo.
Today is a big day for Romanian,because it’s the official date of their first NFC pilot in Romania , and it’s also a big day for TORO, because TORO is playing an important part in this pilot, along with ING, MasterCard, Collis and Venyon. [...]

After the great presentation from Laurent at Under the Radar: Mobility, CNET did a story about Under The Radar: Monetize With Mobile session and use TORO’s presentation and Laurent as the main photo.
Here is the part about Toro:
Both Billing Revolution and Toro are trying to change the way people pay or access payment information with [...]

Under The Radar Conference, November 12 2008, Mountain View, California Coverage
by Steve Follmer
Toro was selected to compete at Under The Radar on November 12th, held at Microsoft’s embassy in Silicon Valley. I was able to accompany their CEO, Laurent Renard, and wanted to offer a summary to the Mobile Monday community.
UTR was a tremendous opportunity [...]