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Jiepang, Leading Location-Based Service Provider in China, Tests NFC-Enabled Marketing and Payment Services

Using UPM RFID NFC tags to conduct marketing and payment trials

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Jiepang, China’s fastest-growing location-based service (LBS) provider, is testing NFC technology to help fuel the growth of its ambitious SoLoMo (social-local-mobile) business strategy, which seeks to move beyond social networking and mobile marketing promotions to provide contactless payments and other offerings. The company’s applications, which have gained a million users in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in just 13 months, are using UPM BullsEye and UPM MiniBlock NFC tags to conduct marketi...

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