Posts Tagged PayPal
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PayPal trumps banks on mobile micropayments
OPINION Watching the bevy of announcements coming out of PayPal’s X Innovate conference this week, you could be forgiven for thinking banks have entirely missed the mobile payments boat. Online media giants including Facebook and FT.com have jumped on board PayPal’s new digital goods payme...
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Bankers dance to Mambo
BPAY is again trying to revive its Me at My Bank Online payments scheme, which will help fine-tune bank account portability BY CHARIS PALMER BPAY's controversial MAMBO project is a step closer to becoming reality with the appointment of an unnamed vendor to help develop the product. MAMBO...
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PayPal head of mobile on the future of money
PayPal has been doing its bit this week to raise awareness of the growing online retail opportunity in Australia. It seems overseas competitors are currently taking around 40 per cent of Australia’s online spend – it’s the kind of statistic that should have Aussie online entrepreneurs rubbing ...
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We came, WePay, we conquered
Whether you're a club, association or bunch of students, making group payments is about to become a cinch, says WePay BY CHARIS PALMER The way group payments are facilitated and managed is set to become easier as start-up WePay takes on PayPal and the banks to target clubs, associations and s...
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PayPal hatches plans
PayPal is looking to grow its market penetration for online payments by engaging developers through a competition and startup incubator scheme BY ELTON CANE Despite some teething problems, PayPal has taken its developer community engagement to a new level since the November launch of its PayP...
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Do you do what you do best, and partner for the rest?
When PayPal recently decided to upgrade and boost the uptake of is mobile phone application, it partnered with young start-up Bump Technologies, a business that enables people to share information simply by bumping their mobile phones together. The result: more than one million downloads of its new ...
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AUSTRAC’s on track
The range and scope of AUSTRAC's supervisory role is now in full force, with a few big names already in its sights BY DAVID JACOBSON John Schmidt was appointed CEO of Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) in September 2009 and he has wasted no time in actively enforcin...
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The fun house
PayPal is continuing tradition by opening its doors to global software developers to see what amusing applications they innovate. (Subscribe)...
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Pay me, pay you
A recent wave of investment in new person-to-person payment services among US banks shows some of the options available to Australian banks. BY ELTON CANE If Australians want to pay money to friends, family members, or even individual service providers - what's known as person-to-person (P2P)...
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PayPal dances with developers to drive innovation
Back in July , following a discussion with Jeff Carter (who is back in Australia for this month’s Innovative Marketing conference), I asked : What if a bank were to open up development of applications to others in the same way Facebook does?The discussion Jeff and I were having revolved around the...
