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It Looks Like Payments Will Belong To PayPal In 2013

It Looks Like Payments Will Belong To PayPal In 2013

By Chris Crum January 15, 2013 | 4 Comments

PayPal announced on Monday that it has reached deals with 23 major national retailers to enable customers to pay with PayPal in stores. Participating retailers include: Famous Footwear, Dollar General, Mapco Express, RadioShack, Spartan Stores, Abercrombie & Fitch, Advance Auto …

Google Wallet Ditching Prepaid Card Option Google Wallet Ditching Prepaid Card Option

For a while now, Google has been bribing people into installing Google Wallet on their smartphones, giving out a free $10 to some who activate the app. Now, it seems customers might want to go ahead and spend that money …

PayPal Payment Option Coming To Millions More Stores PayPal Payment Option Coming To Millions More Stores

PayPal has partnered with Discover to make PayPal a payment option in millions of stores across the United States. Any store that accepts Discover, will accept PayPal as an option. PayPal already has over 50 million active users in the …

Dunkin' Donuts Gets Mobile Payments With New App Dunkin' Donuts Gets Mobile Payments With New App
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Dunkin’ Donuts has a new app that will let customers pay with their iPhone or Android phones. There’s a lot going on in the mobile payments space. This week, a group of major retailers announced a joint venture that will …

Square Lauches Flat Monthly Payment Plan Square Lauches Flat Monthly Payment Plan
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Square announced a new monthly payment plan for small businesses today, which would allow merchants to pay one flat $275 monthly fee, with 0% processing fees and no additional costs or contracts. The company says it is committed to offering …

You Can Now Save Your Discover Card To Google Wallet You Can Now Save Your Discover Card To Google Wallet

Earlier this month, Google revealed a cloud-based version of Google Wallet, which supports Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. Today, Google discussed a new way to save cards to Google Wallet, beginning with Discover, the first card issuer to launch …

Retailers Team Up On New Mobile Payments Option Retailers Team Up On New Mobile Payments Option

A group of retailers, including Walmart, Target, 7-Eleven, Best Buy, CVS, Lowe’s, Shell, Publix, Sears, Alon, Darden, HyVee, Michael’s and Sunoco are teaming up to offer customers another mobile payments option. The initiative is called Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX). The …

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U.S. Wireless Carriers Unite Around Mobile Payments U.S. Wireless Carriers Unite Around Mobile Payments
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The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), a trade association for the electronic payments industry, today announced the beginning of its new Mobile Payments Committee. The committee will be a task force whose job it is to consolidate consensus on mobile payment …

Square Deal With Starbucks Huge For Mobile Payments Square Deal With Starbucks Huge For Mobile Payments
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As previously reported, Square and Starbucks have entered a major partnership, which will see 7,000 Starbucks locations start offering Square as a payment option. Customers will be able to pay at Starbucks using Square’s payer application, from participating stores in …

Deutsche Telekom Looks to Expand Mobile Payments Deutsche Telekom Looks to Expand Mobile Payments

Yesterday it was announced that Deutsche Telekom and MasterCard have partnered to begin bringing mobile phone payment methods to more Europeans over the next year. Today it has become clear that MasterCard is not the only company Deutsche Telekom is …

MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom on For Mobile Pay MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom on For Mobile Pay

MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom announced today that they have entered into a partnership to bring mobile phone payments to more Europeans over the next year. Deutsche Telekom has around 93 million mobile customers that could soon be using their phones …

PayPal Introduces Mastercard Payment Solution PayPal Introduces Mastercard Payment Solution
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If you’re a frequent user PayPal, you’ll be happy to see that they’re making the prepaid Mastercard available at 7-Eleven stores, and other chains owned by 7-Eleven. With 110 million customers and counting, PayPal wants to entice customers to start …

PayPal Gets a Much Needed Website Makeover PayPal Gets a Much Needed Website Makeover
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No doubt PayPal is a leader in the payment industry, but many thought the website could use a little refresh. Apparently so did PayPal, because today they are expected to unveil a much needed redesign of their main website. According …

Square Inc. Introduces Loyalty and Rewards Square Inc. Introduces Loyalty and Rewards
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We’ve been following Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s new startup, Square Inc. for awhile now, and most recently we have seen his company grow in size to reach over 2 billion users. The service is currently processing $6 billion in mobile …

Square Inc. Hits the Two Million User Mark Square Inc. Hits the Two Million User Mark
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Square Inc., Twitter co-found Jack Dorsey’s latest venture, has really taken off lately. Just about six months ago, the company reached a milestone of 1 million users. Today, they reached another milestone and now have over 2 million users. Annually …

Square is handling $5 Billion in Annual Sales Square is handling $5 Billion in Annual Sales

Back in April, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey announced that his newest venture, Square Inc was already processing about $5 billion worth of transactions per year, and being used at almost 10,000 stores around the country. Today, that number has doubled and …

Worldwide Mobile Payments to Hit $171 Billion Worldwide Mobile Payments to Hit $171 Billion

The IT analysts at Gartner, Inc. have announced that worldwide mobile payment transaction values will reach $171.5 billion this year. That is a 61.9% increase over 2011. The number of mobile payment users will also significantly increase this year, hitting …