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Black Friday mobile payments could be the start of something big

11/29/201311/26/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

black friday Mobile payments and Shopping Trends

Today’s official start to the holiday shopping season could be defining for digital wallets. The holiday shopping season is now underway and services such as Google Wallet and Isis are hoping that Black Friday mobile payments will be the start of the explosion of use of these services by consumers. Until now, smartphone based transactions at points of sale have experienced little more than struggle. However, these mobile wallets have now gone national, and this is the first holiday shopping season in which this was the case. Moreover, there are…

Mobile payments drive in retail sector outlined by eBay

01/21/201304/13/2014 Sam Lambert

mobile payments John Donahoe, CEO of ebay

The massive online marketplace has ambitious intentions for testing the use of its services. eBay has now announced its intentions to put considerable testing into place in order to measure the behaviors of consumers who use its mobile payments services while they are in stores and restaurants throughout 2013. This is because its plans include the doubling of the current size of its PayPal business. According to the chief executive of eBay, John Donahoe, “Mobile is becoming the new normal.” He discussed a new partnership that the company has just…