Category Archives: PayPal
PayPal pitches into UK mobile payments fray
Online US payments services firm Paypal is to launch its own chip and pin service in Britain this summer, allowing users to connect wirelessly to its free app for Android and Apple smartphones.
Trials of the new service called PayPal Here have already started in London and will be aimed at small businesses and mobile traders who can’t afford the chip and pin machines offered by high street banks. Continue reading
VoX Mobile adds PayPal Mobile Wallet to Android app
Rating: Invest as little as $1 to make international calls
VoIP apps seem all the rage these days and VoX Mobile’s VoIP calling application is no exception. GoMobile News has covered this product previously (see our report here.) Now reseller, Techwave Marketing has contacted us again to promote the fact that the Vox mobile app has been updated to include support for the PayPal Mobile Wallet. So this facility has become available to PayPal’s over one hundred million users. GoMobile News isn’t a big fan of PayPal but some people obviously don’t share our concerns. Continue reading
Guest Post: NFC – so near, yet so far
Hwan Chung, CEO at Danal Europe, looks at why NFC has yet to take off and what the mobile payments industry can do to get more consumers behind it
On the face of it, the future for NFC (Near Field Communication) looks very bright. Analysts have predicted that by 2015, one in two mobile phones will be NFC-enabled and that NFC will facilitate transactions worth $74 billion. Yet, despite the impressive forecasts, the industry still has a long way to go before mobile payments even come close to matching the revenues made by cash or credit card. Continue reading
Retailer-in-a-field-at-a-music-festival payment system from mPowa
Rating: It’s British but it ain’t quite here yet
Talk about cryptic ways on announcing the launch of a new product. mPowa‘s Rye Starr just left up a comment against one of our stories. What she should have done is left the message against this story’Eventbrite takes on PayPal with At The Door reader‘. That news item covered two payment solutions aimed at the mobile retailer. One was PayPal Here (see our previous story) whilst the other was from Eventbrite. Both focus on iOS devices and have a distinctly US-orientated flavour. By contrast, Mpowa looks very British and claims to have a BlackBerry OS client, too. The one snag – well, mPowa isn’t actually available yet. Continue reading
Eventbrite takes on PayPal with At The Door reader
Rating: No excuse for not accepting credit cards in a field
Hot on the heels of the announcement of the PayPal Here offering (see our previous story) which can turn iOS devices into credit card readers comes the At The Door card reader from Eventbrite. Being an online site that has served served almost 500,000 events last year [2011] and has sold more than 52 million tickets worldwide, just like PayPal Here, the At The Door solution is aimed at events organisers who want to collect payments on the door. Companies that use the Eventbrite card reader will be charged a three per cent fee on top of the service fee. PayPal charges 2.7 per cent. Continue reading
