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PayPal Hopes Open Platform Will Spur Innovation
In November, eBay's PayPal unit will open its platform to developers who want to build applications that use PayPal's online-payment technology.
Meet Zong+, A Mobile Payments Platform On Steroids And Potential PayPal Killer
Meet Zong+, A Mobile Payments Platform On Steroids And Potential PayPal Killer
techcrunch.com — Zong has seen tremendous growth over the past year from when the company debuted its mobile payments... service from the TechCrunch50 demo pit. Zong’s model of billing micropayments to your cell phone bill caught our eye and sure enough, less ... (more) Meet Zong+, A Mobile Payments Platform On Steroids And ...
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PayPal’s Fate Now Rests With Developers [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... PayPal opening up its payment processing API to developers, hoping to unleash new apps that use its electronic payment service, sounds somewhat anti-climactic. After all, most of the other brand-name web companies that emerged in the late 90s — including PayPal’s parent, eBay — have been doing that for years. But the strategy puts PayPal at an important crossroads: One path leads to PayPal being just one of many e-payment companies vying for attention as online commerce evolves; the other gives PayPal what may be ...

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