On Thursday, PayPal will be announcing a small business solution that will include a dongle for mobile payments which will provide direct competition to Intuit (intu), Square, Verifone, and others. This PayPal dongle, which will be triangle-shaped, will make it possible for small business owners to be able to process the swipe of a credit card by using a smartphone, in a way that is comparable to PAYware by Verifone, Square, and GoPayment at Intuit. This effort will align well with PayPal’s recent efforts to carry its payment services into…
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The mobile payment struggle faced by PayPal
It is currently estimated that PayPal mobile payments will generate a volume of $3 billion in 2011, which is twice what was forecasted in the last quarter of 2010, and has increased significantly from the $2 billion prediction from April, 2011. Paypal has explained that its current mobile payment volume is a total of $10 billion, which is a jump from the figure seen in March, which was a daily $6 billion. This tremendous spike in volume indicates that PayPal has discovered a successful path for allowing for mobile device-based…
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