Kevin Harrington

Tag: EBay

  • NCR and PayPal agreement makes sense

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    Most press releases and announcements fail to pass the ‘so what’ test. They might be important to the client company but they are often dull and uninteresting. Then along comes a release that tells of things that will really make a difference. And here is one of these gems: NCR Corporation and PayPal, Inc., today announced an agreement to…

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  • Boku, the new rival to PayPal?

    This should be interesting to follow: PayPal, the online payments company owned by eBay Inc, just got a new rival in the race to develop a mobile payment service that can be used in physical stores. Boku Inc, a big online mobile payments company backed by venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Benchmark Capital,…

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  • PayPal’s mobile plans

    PayPal Inc. is dropping any pretense of not pursuing point-of-sale payments directly. The eBay Inc. subsidiary now promises that it has new services coming for paying at physical locations using smart phones. Third-party software developers for several years have been designing various apps that have blurred the line between traditional POS and online payments. PayPal,…

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  • How near is Facebook Bank plc?

    New competitors for established businesses can come from surprising places. If all a bank does is monitor competition from other banks they could be in for a surprise or two. Here are a couple of lines from CNN: “It’s become increasingly clear in recent weeks that Facebook is finally inching toward the launch of a…

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