PayPal Says It’s Full Speed Ahead on Mobile Payments After President Resigns

PayPal’s VP of Mobile David Marcus makes the case for why its mobile payments strategy will prevail in a market surrounded by incumbents.
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Here’s How PayPal Is Pitching Mobile Payments to Major Retailers (Slideshow)

Check out the photos from a recent visit to PayPal’s San Jose headquarters, where AllThingsD got an exclusive peek at the company’s brand-new “Shopping Showcase.”
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CEO John Donahoe Talks About What’s Next for eBay’s PayPal, After Scott Thompson’s Surprise Exit to Yahoo

Now that Yahoo has nabbed PayPal President Scott Thompson from its crosstown Internet peer, there will be some shuffling to do in order to fill the gap he leaves behind at eBay.
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Did Kindle Gift Cards Outsell iTunes Gift Cards This Holiday?

It’s possible Kindle gift cards outperformed iTunes gift cards this holiday — if what people were searching for is any indication.
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How a Tiny Des Moines Start-Up Believes It Can Beat the Credit Card Industry

A tiny Iowa company explains how it plans to disrupt the billion dollar payments industry by creating its own network and charging merchants zero dollars for all transactions under $10.
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IBM Acquires Emptoris, Boosting Smarter Commerce Plans

Big Blue aims to make supply chains more efficient with this acquisition. Not sexy — unless you’re the chief procurement officer of a big company and you want to score points with the boss.
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Use Your AmEx, Scan a Bar Code, Get an iPod?

American Express Black Card holders might not strike some as the bargain-hunting kind, but AmEx is getting on board with mobile bar code scanning to offer more loyalty rewards to all cardholders.
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Your Ad Here: Twitter’s (Big) Brand-Friendly Makeover

Remember when Twitter didn’t want to be an ad-supported media company?
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MasterCard Makes Its First Mobile Payments Investment in mFoundry

MasterCard has made a strategic investment in seven-year-old mobile banking start-up mFoundry.
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Visa Names Its New PayPal-Like Digital Wallet Service “V.me”

The brand that consumers will see when Visa’s digital wallet launches early next year won’t be the Visa logo.
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