"This book seeks to present, analyze, and illustrate the challenges and rewards of developing and producing mobile commerce applications, emphasizing the integral role M-commerce plays in global business."

Foreword: dead money / Bruce Sterling -- Introduction: curating transactional things / Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz -- Dongles / Scott Mainwaring -- Checks / Lisa Servon -- Tattoos Lynn gamble -- Mag stripe / Dave Stearns -- Ledgers / Taylor Nelms -- Dogecoin / Sarah Jeong -- Khipu / Gary Urton...

Introduction / Atreyee Sen and Johan Lindquist -- Exclusively simple : the impact of cashless initiatives on homeless Roma in Denmark / Camilla Ravnbol -- Debt and dirty names : tracing cashlessness and urban marginality in Brazil / Marie Kolling -- 'Debt is what happens, while...' : the...

Bank systems / Jonathan J. Wegner, Eli A. Rosenberg and Grayson J. Derrick -- Charging ahead : from innovation to industry / Mark Dabertin and Jay Dubow -- Nonbank money transmitters / Jacqueline Allen and Elizabeth Khalil -- Mobile wallets/mobile payments and peer-to-peer payments / Erin Fonte...

Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- Dedication -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Background -- Purpose -- Themes -- Acknowledgment by David LEE Kuo Chuen -- Acknowledgment by Robert Deng -- Chapter 1: The Game of Dian Fu: The Rise of Chinese Finance -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments...