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As the spread of mobile technology continues to erase borders, more companies are teaming up to bring their offerings to audiences they would have been unable to serve just 10 years ago. Many of these companies already had global reach, but needed the technology or local expertise of a partner from overseas.
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A logo sits on a sign outside a Vodafone store, operated by Vodafone Group Plc in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013. While Germany's economic strength does continue to support the region's recovery, the European Commission last week cut its forecast for euro-zone growth in 2014, anticipating 1.1 percent expansion instead of the 1.2 percent forecast in May. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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PayPal and Vodafone

PayPal's pact with Vodafone brings the California-based payments company not only a powerful ally in Europe, but also a way to implement Near Field Communication tech, which has been largely absent from PayPal's earlier mobile wallets.
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The China UnionPay Data Co. logo is displayed on an automated teller machine (ATM) in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. The U.S. filed two complaints against China at the World Trade Organization, concerned that curbs on payment-processing companies put payment-processing companies such as MasterCard Inc. and Visa Inc. at a disadvantage because China favors a monopoly provider, China UnionPay Data Co. The second complaint is over dumping duties on more than $200 million of U.S.-made steel products. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg
Nelson Ching/Bloomberg

Apple and China UnionPay

Apple may be a global powerhouse, but it can't go it alone in China. Its deal with China UnionPay gives it a way into the country while also giving UnionPay leg up in mobile payments.
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A model submerges a Panasonic Corp. 5-inch Toughpad FZ-X1 tablet, running Google Inc.'s Android 4.2.2 operation system, in water for a water resistance demonstration at an unveiling event of the company's Toughpad tablets in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

Ingenico and Panasonic

France's Ingenico and Japan's Panasonic are teaming up to take mobile payments to new extremes. The pair developed a payment-enabled version of Panasonic's Toughpad, which is built to resist shock, dust and — according to its marketing video — piranhas.
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A visitor tries out Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 10 operating system on a tablet device during a launch event in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 29, 2015. The release of Microsoft's new Windows 10 operating system -- an event that in years past sparked a surge of computer buying -- will do little to ease the four-year sales slump that's been dogging the PC industry. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

Microsoft, Boku and Swisscom

The carrier billing provider Boku began its "breakthrough" deal with Microsoft to enable payments on Windows 10 in partnership with Sweden's Swisscom and the U.S.'s Sprint. According to Boku, this level of support shows its model is coming into the mainstream.
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MasterCard and Samsung

Japan's Samsung and U.S.-based MasterCard are teaming up to modernize the refrigerator. Their product, unveiled in January, lets consumers order groceries from within their own kitchens.
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Visa Inc. credit and debit cards are arranged for a photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Visa Inc. is expected to release earnings data on Jan. 30. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Visa and Visa Europe

As California-based Visa and U.K.-based Visa Europe plan to reunify, they are already planning ways to combine their resources. One such example is Visa Europe's support for Visa Checkout, which was designed in the U.S. as a replacement for the V.me digital wallet.
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Splitit and WooCommerce

Israel's Splitit (formerly PayItSimple) is working with WooCommerce to bring its interest-free installment payment technology to U.S. merchants.
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