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PayPal Wants You to Shop While Straphanging In Singapore

Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 9 at 7:06 am PT

PayPal and others are looking to make mobile payments even more mobile.

eBay Predicts Mobile Commerce Will Grow 60 Percent in 2012

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 12 at 11:24 am PT

EBay’s John Donahoe has drawn his mobile prediction line in the sand for 2012, and it is pretty jaw-dropping.

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Business Tech Spending Picks Up

Dana Mattioli, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 1, 2011 at 3:10 pm PT

After delaying technology purchases and upgrades during the downturn, businesses started spending strongly again in the fourth quarter, lifting profits at tech suppliers including EMC Corp., SAP AG, International Business Machines Corp., and Xerox Corp.

Facebook Testing Social Commerce Feature "Buy With Friends"

Liz Gannes in Social on January 25, 2011 at 2:35 pm PT

Facebook is testing a new feature called Buy With Friends to give users social incentives to increase their purchases of virtual goods from games on its platform, according to the company’s product marketing manager for commerce, Deb Liu.

Apple Using Cash to Secure Cache of Components

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 24, 2011 at 4:55 am PT

Asked last October about Apple’s plans for the nearly $60 billion in cash it had on hand, CEO Steve Jobs suggested the company intended to allocate some to future big-ticket purchases. But was he talking companies or components?

Another Big Bet on Mobile Payments: Boku Raises $25 Million

Peter Kafka in Media on January 19, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Is there big money in mobile payments–systems that let people buy stuff using their phones? Not yet, perhaps. But investors are betting there will be. Latest example: Boku, a mobile payment start-up that raised $13 million last June, has added another $25 million via a C round led by DAG Ventures. Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures are all re-upping.

Econalypse Fin

John Paczkowski in News on January 13, 2010 at 5:45 am PT

“The technology downturn of 2008 and 2009 is unofficially over.” This, according to Forrester, which claims technology spending will roar back to life in 2010.

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Customers Stick With Technology Services During the Downturn

Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 28, 2009 at 10:45 am PT

Most public-opinion surveys seem to confirm what one would expect. But every once in a while there’s a paradox or two, as in some recent findings by Accenture in the area of technology services. The consulting firm discussed some of its research in advance of the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, which formally kicks off Jan. 7 in Las Vegas.

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PayPal Woos Developers in Bid to Protect Its Turf

Geoffrey A. Fowler and Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 3, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

EBay Inc.’s PayPal plans to unveil a new system that makes it easier for software developers to integrate the online payments system right into their programs–as the company takes new steps to protect its turf. With the new open software, called Paypal X, users won’t have to type their username and password into a separate PayPal Web site in order to complete a payment.