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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eBay’s John Donahoe Literally Starts Hammering Out the Plan for Mobile Payments

In an interview, eBay’s CEO provides a few details about the company’s mobile payments trial with Home Depot, and how it would expand from five to 51 stores across the country over the next week.
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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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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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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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Excerpts From the MasterCard Documents

MasterCard shared a presentation, “MasterCard Advisors Targeted Advertising Services,” with at least four companies earlier this year that outlines the idea of linking Internet users to information about actual purchase behaviors for ad targeting.

Financial Problems Could Shut WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks said it will shut down by year-end if financial-services companies don’t lift restrictions on donations that have hobbled the organization.

Google Mobile App Aims To Turn Phones Into Wallets

Katie looks at Google Wallet, the mobile app that lets users pay for things with their cellphone.
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The Google Wallet Is Open for Business