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 [...]

TORO CEO, Laurent Renard presenting at Under the Radar: Mobility.
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And this is what Mobile Market Watch said about TORO’s product, Akami Suite.
Toro offers the most futuristic, fascinating solution yet–beyond even what’s happening in advanced mobile consumer markets like Japan and northern Europe. It could usher in a whole new version of multi-channel [...]

GSMA mobile innovation award APAC Tournament is approaching, and TORO is among several innovators to be listed on GSMA website, We are positive we will be selected to compete this year, wish us luck! You can see TORO’s profile here.

Few weeks ago, TORO was interviewed by Christine from Chili Seed, a online media and consulting company focus on startups and entrepreneurs for venture capitalists, they have been actively seeking new companies, new technologies to introduce to their audience. Chili Seed did a 30 minutes interview with Toro’s CEO, Laurent, to talk about TORO’s product, [...]

TORO has been selected among 32 startups globally to present at the Under-The-Radar conference in November in Mountain View, CA.

“Under the Radar” is a major annual event held in California focusing on early stage, innovative companies and building links between those startups and VCs, industrials and influent bloggers. You can visit their blog to find out more about “Under the Radar“. Toro was contacted by “Under the Radar” for their conference this year, “Under [...]

In an earlier article, I explain why Japan should NOT be considered the most advanced market for NFC because, although mobile Felica is widespread, this technology only allows the “card emulation” mode, and is missing out the “reader” and “Peer-to-Peer” modes.

Well, its seems that our Japanese friends are coming up with an answer that might [...]

There is a quite extended metro system in Barcelona, so I was expecting to see people swipe their contactless card to check-in/out. I was surprised to discover that you still need to buy paper tickets, with all the inconveniencies that it supposes (cost, visual pollution, long queues, mechanical problems of readers, etc.). I wonder what [...]

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So the NFC & International Micropayment Forum met for the second time in Taipei on June 24th 2008. Toro went there because, as a Taiwan-based company, it was kind of our duty to attend the event. Moreover, Collis was sponsoring the event and since they are one of our shareholders, we wanted to support them. [...]