PayPal launches "Business in a Box" service for small firms

PayPal has just unveiled a new service, called "Business in a Box" designed specifically for small firms. The service brings together a range of tools aimed at helping small firms start and run their online operations.

PayPal says that the service will benefit entrepreneurs setting up a business for the first time as well as firms looking to make a move onto the Web, making it easy to access a range of tools all tied together from a PayPal Business account.

Paying for parking from your car

Honda, Visa and IPS Group, Inc. have partnered to make locating and paying for parking fast and easy, so that drivers will never have to scramble for change or even exit the vehicle to pay for parking at a meter.

Everyone seems to think that everyone is using mobile payments

From Computerworld –

“On a Starbucks analyst call, a senior Wall Street analyst asked if mobile payments will soon be obsolete. The fact that such a question was even asked illustrates the level of mobile payment perception distortion.”

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Only 1 in 5 people who have Apple Pay actually use it, survey shows

From Tech Insider –

“Only about one in five people who have phones with Apple Pay, the year-old mobile payments service from Apple, actually use it. That's according to a new survey from Trustev, a company that helps retailers and banks prevent online fraud.

And only about 1 in 7 people who can use Samsung Pay or Android Pay, "mobile wallets" that work on some Android phones, have tried them, according to the survey.”

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Sweden is on its way to becoming the first cashless society on Earth

From Quartz –

“There’s a conspicuous lack of cash on Sweden’s streets.

So ubiquitous are digital payments in the country that attempting a paper money transaction at a Swedish bank might provoke a suspicious stare or a report to the police. That’s according to Niklas Arvidsson, a professor at Stockholm’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology.”

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