PayPal’s goal to become a bigger part of our payment lives took another step forward Thursday, with the company adding more money-transfer features to its platform. Nearly a year after it purchased money-transfer company Xoom, PayPal on Thursday integrated a handful of Xoom’s functions to its websites, making it easier for PayPal’s 87 million US …
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Forget “You break it, you buy it.” In the world of virtual reality, a better warning might be, “Sneeze in front of it, it’s yours.” China-based e-commerce giant Alibaba is developing a system designed to let shoppers in VR malls pay by simply nodding. “It is very boring to have to take off your goggles for payment,” a technologist working …
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PayPal has been annoying some of its customers for years. Instead of making it easy for folks to pay online using their credit cards, the digital payments company directs them to buy stuff with their PayPal balances and checking accounts. The end result has been both profitable for PayPal (because it avoids credit card networks’ higher fees) and a pain …
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NAB is claiming a world first with its new banking app, which will allow customers to use their credit card to make mobile payments before they’ve even received their plastic card in the mail. The feature will be available when NAB launches its new mobile app “later this year,” and will allow customers to apply for a new personal Visa …
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Apple may have a plan to make inroads in Japan’s mobile-payments market, but it doesn’t include Apple Pay, at least for now. The tech titan is working on a new iPhone for Japan that consumers can use to make payments for trips on mass transit, Bloomberg reports. But instead of the near field communication (NFC) technology that powers Apple Pay, …
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