PayPal’s mobile payments currently come in two varieties. PayPal offers person-to-person mobile payments, in which it doesn’t make money if users tap a PayPal balance or bank account or charges a percentage fee on transfers from a credit or debit account. It also makes money on mobile commerce payments, where it takes a percentage fee for goods purchased online on a mobile phone via PayPal.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Offline Payments is the Big PayPal Opportunity
Offline, real-world payments are a much bigger opportunity than online payments, representing more than 90 percent of current transactions. That’s where PayPal is looking to shift.
PayPal’s mobile payments currently come in two varieties. PayPal offers person-to-person mobile payments, in which it doesn’t make money if users tap a PayPal balance or bank account or charges a percentage fee on transfers from a credit or debit account. It also makes money on mobile commerce payments, where it takes a percentage fee for goods purchased online on a mobile phone via PayPal.
PayPal’s mobile payments currently come in two varieties. PayPal offers person-to-person mobile payments, in which it doesn’t make money if users tap a PayPal balance or bank account or charges a percentage fee on transfers from a credit or debit account. It also makes money on mobile commerce payments, where it takes a percentage fee for goods purchased online on a mobile phone via PayPal.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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