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How A Stolen Wallet Made Me A Mobile-Payments Enthusiast

By Tom Krazit Jan. 21, 2012, 4:00pm 4 Comments

Losing your phone is never fun. But losing your wallet is much worse, and that’s one argument where those trying to roll the mobile-payments… Read More »

Updated: In-App Purchases To Overtake Sales From Paid Apps By 2013

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 17, 2012, 8:47pm Comments Off

The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money fr… Read More »

What The Analysts Asked Yahoo Today, And How The New CEO Responded

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 5, 2012, 8:50am 2 Comments

The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as i… Read More »

Report: Yahoo To Name PayPal Head As CEO. Sign Of A More Commercial Push?

By Ingrid Lunden Jan. 4, 2012, 5:49pm Comments Off

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) faced a pretty big whack of upheavals in 2011 — not least of which was the none-too-quiet departure of their outspoken f… Read More »

One More Step For Apple In China: It's Now Accepting App Payments In Yuan

By Ingrid Lunden Nov. 18, 2011, 4:51pm Comments Off

China has become an increasingly important part of Apple’s empire, and today it looks like the company has taken one more step to growing th… Read More »

The NFC Dance: One Step Closer With PayPal; One Step Further With Square

By Ingrid Lunden Nov. 2, 2011, 8:30pm Comments Off

We are still far from seeing simple, wave-and-pay NFC as a ubiquitous technology for mobile payments, and even further from seeing consumers… Read More »

Why Mobile Payments Might Still Be A Few Years Away In A Few Years

By Tom Krazit Sep. 27, 2011, 2:00pm 3 Comments

Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment a… Read More »

PayPal Demos Android-Based NFC Mobile Payment System

By Tom Krazit Jul. 14, 2011, 2:27am 1 Comment

There aren’t a lot of phones on the market which can serve as digital currency, but PayPal demonstrated Wednesday how its users will be able… Read More »

eBay Antes Up In Mobile Payments Game, Buys Zong For $240 Million

By Ingrid Lunden Jul. 7, 2011, 6:40pm 1 Comment

A big move in mobile payments today: eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has announced that it is buying the mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in… Read More »

Mobile Lowdown: 6-24-11: Nokia Android; Apps vs Web; Google Mobile; Apple

By Ingrid Lunden Jun. 24, 2011, 3:16pm Comments Off

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: – Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Android: A day after a video surfaced of Nokia’s first Windows Pho… Read More »

PayPal Files Trade Secret Lawsuit Against Google And Two Ex-Employees

By Joe Mullin May. 27, 2011, 5:15am Comments Off

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) held a high-profile launch event for its new mobile payment system today. But now it looks like another big player in th… Read More »

Apple And PayPal Hit With Lawsuit Over Patent For ‘One-Click’

By Joe Mullin Mar. 16, 2011, 12:32am Comments Off

Amazon’s patent on its “one-click” checkout system first made headlines over a decade ago, and became a notorious “Exhibit A” for those who… Read More »

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