PayPal accélère son déploiement en magasins. eBay a débuté 2012 en beauté en enregistrant des résultats supérieurs à toutes les attentes pour le premier trimestre, et exposé mercredi une stratégie misant largement sur les possibilités d'achat et de paiement par téléphone. L'action bondissait de 7,58% à 35,87 dollars dans les échanges électroniques après la clôture de la Bourse à New York. Le bénéfice du premier trimestre s'affiche en hausse de 20% à 570 millions de dollars, soit, hors éléments exceptionnels, à 55 cents par action, au lieu des 52 cents attendus par les analystes. Le chiffre d'affaires et en hausse de 29% à 3,28 milliards de dollars, au lieu de 3,15 milliards attendus. Le groupe, dont les résultats ont une nouvelle fois été tirés par les services de paiement en ligne PayPal, a par ailleurs légèrement relevé ses prévisions annuelles, et avancé des attentes proches de celles des analystes pour le trimestre en cours.
Poursuite du déploiement des solutions Paypal en magasin. Commerce physique : le plan d'attaque de Paypal. PayPal Has A Three-Year Plan To Fight Google And Apple (And Facebook) ++ PayPal Predicts No Wallets by 2016. Back in 2007, the Chief Executive of Visa Europe claimed that we could all be living in a cashless society by 2012. With that milestone fast approaching, it’s safe to assume that notes/bills and coins won’t be going the way of the dodo that quickly, but a new forecast has emerged from another giant from the finance world. PayPal has produced a new report which will be released shortly – Money: The Digital Tipping Point – in which it predicts not only that consumers won’t need cash to go shopping, but they won’t need a wallet at all.
And when can we expect this vision to be realized? 2016, it seems. We’ve written quite extensively about mobile payment technology in recent times. Back in September we spoke with Ben Milne, founder of peer-to-peer Web and mobile payment platform Dwolla, who discussed the future of m-commerce. Around 45 million people in the UK use a mobile phone, and 49% of mobile users surveyed use their device to purchase products at least once every three months.
PayPal exec: It won't be easy to compete with us | Companies hopping into the payments business--with particular focus on mobile--will face unexpected challenges as PayPal did in its early days, according to an executive for the digital payments service provider. "Being in the payments business is harder than saying you're in the payments business," Sam Shrauger, vice president of global product and design for PayPal, said in an interview with CNET today. While not naming any specific companies, his warning was clearly leveled at players such as Google, which recently unveiled its Google Wallet feature and plans to roll out a payment system in select cities later this summer. Companies that want to deal with payments will have to be ready to deal with customer service, as well as shoulder the risk of financial transactions, Shrauger said.
"Are those problems that they want to solve? " he asked. PayPal isn't going to mandate the use of any specific technology. "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail," Shrauger said. ++ eBay's CEO tells me why social is so important to the future of his company. PayPal Vision - PayPal.