August 7th, 2012

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Okay, not such a shock, but at least Nielsen has stats showing how popular eBay and Amazon’s apps are in the US. The company claims that eBay Mobile had a unique US smartphone audience of 13.2m people...

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June 7th, 2012

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Earlier this year, Facebook announced plans for a streamlined payments system for mobile web-apps. Described as “low friction (two steps) carrier billing” by the social network, it’s...

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January 13th, 2012

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eBay CEO John Donahoe says the auction giant expects to see more than $8bn of goods sold through its mobile apps and sites in 2012, up from $5bn in 2011. Note, this is value of goods sold, not revenues...

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November 28th, 2011

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PayPal has published a report claiming that by 2016, mobile payments will be mainstream in the UK. The report is based on Forrester Consulting interviews with 10 senior executives at UK retailers and businesses....

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November 18th, 2011

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One of iOS’ big advantages over Android so far has been the fact that Apple takes people’s credit card details when they register for an iTunes Store account, making payment an almost frictionless...

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November 9th, 2011

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eBay’s payments subsidiary PayPal has launched a new version of its Android app with a key new feature: peer-to-peer NFC payments. Now two people with NFC-capable Android phones and the app can tap...

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