Press Releases

With partnership Boku connects into the direct billing API for Switzerland’s leading telecom provider

May 14, 2013 – San Francisco, CALIFORNIA — Boku, Inc., the global leader in online mobile payments, today announced a carrier billing partnership with Swisscom with a connection to the MNO’s direct billing API. This agreement will bring direct-to-bill mobile operator billing as a payment option to more than 6 million customers, covering more than 60% of Switzerland’s mobile market.

Through this integration, online merchants will generate increased revenue by attracting new consumers who were previously unable to pay and from consumers who find mobile...

Boku’s global mobile payment platform provides enhanced direct carrier billing payment method for Bigpoint players

15 April, 2013:  Boku, Inc today announced a partnership with Bigpoint SARL and Co, SCS, the Luxemburg-based online gaming platform with 300+m registered players worldwide. The partnership means that the Boku ® mobile payment service will be introduced by Bigpoint in their games in several markets.

The integration between Bigpoint and Bokuprovides a value-added service to Bigpoint and its millions of users with a secure payment mechanism that is both fast and easy to use.

Bigpoint’s registered players simply enter their mobile phone number to checkout, and respond via...

U.S. Cellular chooses Boku as one of its first mobile payments partners to launch mobile operator billing for online merchants

January 23, 2013 – San Francisco, CALIFORNIA — Boku, Inc., the global leader in online mobile payments, today announced a partnership with U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) to maximize the adoption of direct-to-bill mobile operator billing as a payment option. Boku is one of the first payments providers to integrate and launch with U.S. Cellular to provide mobile payments for the carrier’s postpaid customers across 26 states.

Online merchants will generate incremental revenue from consumers who find mobile the easiest...

Optus and Boku have signed a partnership agreement to launch mobile operator billing as a payment mechanism for online merchants in Australia

August 27, 2012 – San Francisco, CALIFORNIA — Optus Group, a leading Australian broadband and telecommunications provider and wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications (ASX: SGT), and Boku, Inc., the global leader in online mobile payments, today announced a partnership to maximize the adoption of direct-to-bill mobile operator billing as a payment option for Australian online merchants.

Online merchants will generate incremental revenue from consumers who find mobile to be the easiest way to pay online, and attract...

Jon Prideaux, EVP for Visa, and Stuart Neal, Managing Director of Payment Acceptance at Barclaycard, join Boku

SAN FRANCISCO — May 3, 2012 – Boku, Inc, the global leader in mobile payments, announced today that two seasoned veterans of the payments industry, Jon Prideaux, Executive Vice President for Visa, and Stuart Neal, Managing Director of International Development for Barclaycard, are joining the Boku executive team as Chief Business Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development, respectively. The addition of these two executives adds nearly 40 years of experience in the payments industry to Boku’s already seasoned management team that includes...

Agreement enables online and on-device purchasing from Boku’s extensive online merchant network using Boku’s bank-grade mobile payments technology 

SAN FRANCISCO — May 3, 2012 –Boku, Inc., the global leader in online payments, announced today an agreement with Sprint (NYSE:S) that will allow Sprint customers to easily and securely charge online purchases to their Sprint wireless bill through a simple two-step authorization process.

Sprint customers will be able to make purchases online from Boku’s extensive merchant network of Web-based gaming companies, social networks and service providers. Boku’s mobile payments system on Sprint includes top-tier merchant partners Electronic Arts, Riot Games, Jagex, Stardoll, Kingisle...