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Tom Krazit
Jan 21, 2012 5:00 AM
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 boulder up the mountain might find some help.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 17, 2012 9:47 AM
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 from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2012 9:50 PM
The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as its CEO to run a business largely built on content, search and advertising. But it didn’t exactly reward it, either: the stock closed down by 51 cents at $15.82,…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 4, 2012 6:49 AM
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 former CEO Carol Bartz. Will the company this year try to stabilize and play things a bit more quietly? Just days into 2012, a report has emerged that…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 18, 2011 5:51 AM
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 that even more: the company is now accepting payments in Chinese Yuan on its App Store.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 2, 2011 11:30 AM
We are still far from seeing simple, wave-and-pay NFC as a ubiquitous technology for mobile payments, and even further from seeing consumers adopt such services en masse—even if there has been a lot of interest from many handset makers, merchants, carriers and payment providers in getting them to work. Two…
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Tom Krazit
Sep 27, 2011 5:00 AM
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment and hype behind the idea of using one’s mobile phone as a method of payment, but it’s pretty clear that the details of how any one company or…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 7, 2011 9:40 AM
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 cash.
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Joe Mullin
May 26, 2011 8:15 PM
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 the payment-processing market is seeking to crash that party, and not in a fun way.
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Joe Mullin
Mar 15, 2011 3:32 PM
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 argued that software patents were being granted too readily and were hindering, rather than helping, innovation. The company sued Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) in 1999 and…
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Tricia Duryee
Oct 26, 2010 8:39 PM
Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer conference today in San Francisco and its three designated themes: local, social and mobile. PayPal said today it is launching a new digital goods payment platform that will make…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 13, 2010 1:05 PM
PayPal is set to launch a new product specifically designed to facilitate micropayments—a move that could set it up as a more attractive option for publications looking to charge for content online. PayPal President Scott Thompson tells the Associated Press that the new product will likely launch by the end…
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Ben Elowitz
Jun 23, 2010 12:59 PM
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods. He is also an angel investor in various media and e-commerce companies. Earlier this month,…
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Staci D. Kramer
May 4, 2010 10:26 AM
Honolulu Civil Beat, Pierre Omidyar’s experiment in local subscription-supported journalism, went fully live today, complete with a first-edition headline you can’t get past without paying 99 cents for a 15-day trial. Unless someone shared the link with you—then you can see it for free if you link your PayPal account.…
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Tameka Kee
Nov 10, 2009 12:01 PM
Virtual goods and micro-transactions have been driving the billion-dollar online games industry across Asia for years. And deals like EA’s $400 million buyout of social gamer Playfish, and Activision’s new virtual pets addition to World of Warcraft, show that virtual currencies have now evolved into a viable business model for…
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Tameka Kee
Jul 23, 2009 5:10 PM
PayPal has spent the last decade trying to standardize (and dominate) the transactional side of e-commerce—and now it’s got its eyes on the newly booming apps and cloud computing market. The eBay-owned company is opening up its platform to third-party developers this fall, so that everyone from individual app-makers, to…
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