大型零售商将联手开发手机钱包

沃尔玛公司:Target Corp. 7-Eleven Inc. and Sunoco Inc三家公司希望通过他们的行业方式进入该新兴市场从而变成采购设备的智能手机公司。

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BY ROBIN SIDEL

More than a dozen big merchants announced Wednesday their plans to jointly develop a mobile-payments network that will battle similar services from Google Inc. and other companies.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp., 7-Eleven Inc. and Sunoco Inc. are among the companies hoping to elbow their way into the burgeoning market that turns smartphones into devices for making purchases.

The push by merchants, called Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is at an early stage, and the companies haven't set a launch date or hired a chief executive. A CEO search is under way. It isn't clear how much money each participating ...