mobile payments

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

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6 at 7:00 am PT

PayPal’s VP of Mobile David Marcus makes the case for why its mobile payments strategy will prevail in a market surrounded by incumbents.

Here’s How PayPal Is Pitching Mobile Payments to Major Retailers (Slideshow)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6 at 6:30 am PT

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.”

Google’s Head of Consumer Payments, Vikas Gupta, Resigns

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 26 at 5:35 pm PT

Vikas Gupta joined Google 18 months ago after it acquired Jambool, the virtual goods payment platform where he was a founder and CEO.

Online Commerce Trend: More Spending, Smaller Purchases

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 20 at 12:22 pm PT

The average checkout size is shrinking, even though more people spent more money online. Why? Here are three reasons.

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

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 19 at 6:00 am PT

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.

PayPal’s First Mobile Payments Pilot Is With Big-Box Retailer Home Depot

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 6 at 1:50 pm PT

Some good news for eBay, following the surprising announcement this week that PayPal was losing its top executive to Yahoo.

CEO John Donahoe Talks About What’s Next for eBay’s PayPal, After Scott Thompson’s Surprise Exit to Yahoo

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4 at 10:08 pm PT

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.

CEO John Donahoe Expresses “Shock” Over eBay Executive’s Departure to Yahoo (Internal Memo)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4 at 7:33 am PT

This morning, we got our hands on the internal memo that eBay’s CEO John Donahoe sent out to the troops, following the news that PayPal’s Scott Thompson will leave to become Yahoo’s CEO. The online commerce giant was, um, surprised.

How a Tiny Des Moines Start-Up Believes It Can Beat the Credit Card Industry

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 15, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

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.

Those Family Data Plans Are Finally Coming to the U.S. Next Year

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 7, 2011 at 11:26 am PT

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said his company should have them on the market next year; AT&T expects devices to share a bucket of megabytes in the not-too-distant future.