Tag: mobile payment

  • 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,…

  • Google planning payment test in New York and San Francisco

    Google Inc. plans to start testing a mobile-payment service at stores in New York and San Francisco within four months, letting shoppers use their phones to ring up purchases, two people familiar with the project said. The company will pay for installation of thousands of special cash-register systems from VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY) at merchant…