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Mobile payments service from PayPal is rolled out with free processing

Jennifer Goula
Paypal Mobile Payments

This fee free transaction opportunity is a promotion that the company will run until the end of the year. Among the latest mobile payments news headlines that are being made is the announcement that has been made by PayPal that it is hoping to attract more businesses to use its POS credit card processing service by offering these transactions for free for the rest of the year. Transaction fees add up quickly and can cut into the profit of a business, making this type of offer highly appealing. The announcement…

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Mobile payments from PayPal are now in Europe

Jesse Collins
Paypal Mobile Payments

A European version of the smartphone transactions service is now available for small merchants. After much waiting from merchants in Europe, a version of PayPal Here has now been launched to provide them with mobile payments as the company established itself to directly compete with its rivals in the market, such as Square Inc. This service is now available to small merchants in European countries for smartphone and tablet transactions. At the same time as the announcement that the mobile payments were moving into Europe, PayPal also unveiled a brand…

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QR codes used by PayPal in new window shopping service

Julie Campbell

  The mobile commerce and payments options from the company have undergone another expansion. PayPal has just announced their latest launch with QR codes that are designed to help the company to take on brick and mortar shops on an international level, through its latest “Shop and Pay on the Go” service. This new program will be rolling out for the first time in the Netherlands, and broadening from there. The service has been nicknamed “window shopping 2.0”, and uses QR codes that customers can scan using their smartphones. The…

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Mobile payments experience notable boost with PayPal partnership with Discover

L. Green
Mobile Commerce Industry

The credit card and online transaction company will now be working together. The world of mobile payments has added a new level of drama with the partnership that has just been announced between Discover and PayPal. This has added yet another level to the explosion in the marketplace where smartphones replace cards. Although there have been regular changes to the mobile payments world as this market emerges, until now, there hasn’t been a single announcement that is quite as powerful as this one in terms of providing a competitive advantage…

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Mobile payments through PayPal could explode if McDonald’s pilot program works

Stephanie Beck
mobile commerce news

This new partnership could be defining for both companies as well as the entire industry. PayPal has just entered into the very first stages of what may be one of the most defining mobile payments deals in the industry, as it begins its partnership with the largest fast food chain in the world, McDonald’s. The new smartphone transaction service is now being tested at 30 restaurants in France. Earlier in 2012, Orlando, Florida franchisees saw demonstrations of a wider PayPal mobile payments program at a McDonald’s conference. Now, a spokeswoman…

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