Dan Schulman has telecom history with Sprint, Virgin Mobile USA
Paypal President and CEO Dan Schulman has joined the Verizon board, effective yesterday. Schulman comes to Verizon's board with experience in both the payments space and a history in the mobile industry -- he was...
The world of mobile pay or electronic payments has been exploding with growth in recent years. PayPal has been the leader in this space for the longest time and that has not changed. Year after year they continue to face growing competition, but they...
Last month I met with PayPal at the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas. First, let me say this is one impressive company. It started in 1998, simply helping people pay for things and get paid. Since, it has become the leader in the...
BMW has launched the K 1600 GT touring motorcycle, the first model with an optional eCall service via an onboard Vodafone SIM card.
The BMW Motorrad ConnectedRide eCall/ ACN (Emergency Call/ Automatic Collision Notification) system uses networks throughout Europe in order to get help to...
Over the last couple of years, there has been much attention to and change in the mobile payment space. PayPal was the leader for decades when Apple Pay, Google Pay and countless others entered the space in the last couple of years. The assumption was...
Can PayPal compete against Apple, Google, Android and other mobile commerce platforms?
The online and wireless payment space is growing, changing and maturing and that is threatening existing leaders like PayPal. How will new competition from entrants like Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Android Pay, Google...
In a first-of-its-kind move, FDIC will back Google Wallet
WASHINGTON – In a landmark announcement, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will now insure money held in Google Wallet accounts.
The federally run program insures all deposits in U.S. banks up to $250,000. The move will be...
Anatel reports TIM disconnected calls on purpose
A report released last week by Brazil’s telecom regulator agency Anatel claims that TIM Brasil purposely dropped calls on customers of its low-cost Infinity Plan that charges customers by the call and not on the length of those...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Just a few hours ago the UK's police force announced they had arrested a member of hacking collective LulzSec in Shetland, an island off the north coast of Scotland (not, as Fox reported in the US, in London).
PayPal demonstrated its new NFC capabilities for the first time this week at the Mobile Beat 2011 conference in San Francisco.
Senior director of PayPal Mobile, Laura Chambers, gave the audience a demo of the new service by tapping two smartphones together to transfer a...
EBay Inc. (EBAY)’s PayPal unit unveiled a service that will let users make payments by tapping their mobile devices together, joining rivals in the market for wireless transactions using near field communication technology. ...
Considering all the activity of late, PayPal appears to be jumping into the deep end of the mobile payments space. The company is planning to launch a new application for Android devices later this summer that leverages near field communication technology to provide a...
PCWorld | July 13, 2011 | Mark Sullivan
PayPal this morning announced a new mobile phone widget that will let smartphone users tap their phones together to exchange money.
Read the full article here via PCWorld
PCWorld | July 13, 2011 | Mark Sullivan
PayPal this morning announced a new mobile phone widget that will let smartphone users tap their phones together to exchange money.
Read the full article here via PCWorld
Bloomberg | July 13, 2011 | Douglas Macmillan
EBay Inc. (EBAY)’s PayPal unit unveiled a service that will let users make payments by tapping their mobile devices together, joining rivals in the market for wireless transactions using near field communication technology.
Read the full article here...
eBay Inc. (EBAY) has reached a deal to acquire Zong for $240 million in cash. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company provides mobile payments through carrier billing channels and has deals with more than 250 operators around the world.eBay plans to combine bring Zong’s...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
This week marks the start of the second half of 2011 – a perfect time...
Square Inc.'s valuation has surged to $1 billion on the heels of a fresh venture financing round totaling $100 million. Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation from Tiger Global Management, the new funding will be used by the eight-month-old company to...
PayPal has revised its projected 2011 revenue for mobile payments for a third time this year to $3 billion. Earlier projections from the company pegged mobile revenue at $1.5 billion and then $2 billion.“Mobile payments are growing at a rate we never could have...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Rob Matthews is a self-described lazy man. The 2008 graduate of Miami (OH) University somehow saw opportunity in his deficiency, and became founder, CEO and president of AirRun, which recently launched its free, hyperlocal service-based app in cities across the U.S.
While a student, Matthews...
E-commerce software firm Insterpire plans to expand its footprint in its Austin, Texas office from around 40 employees to 70 workers by the end of 2011.
The Sydney-based company announced that healthy growth will likely lead to hiring VP positions in the area of engineering...
