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Yesterday in New York, Google launched the new Google Wallet. Google Wallet is an application that will turn your mobile phone into your wallet.
On Google Wallet you will be able to store your credit cards, loyalty cards, gift cards and more. At launch Google Wallet will support Citi Mastercard and Google Prepaid Card.
To learn more please visit our Google Wallet website at www.google.com/wallet.
Paypal is now Suing Google over Google Wallet
According to PayPal’s lawsuit, read in full here, former PayPal executive (now working at Google) Osama Bedier stole PayPal’s trade secrets and shared it with Google and other companies. Another present Googler and former PayPal exec, Stephanie Tilenius, violated her contract when she recruited Bedier, PayPal said.
This doesnt look good for Google already.
Xbox 360 will be receiving a great update later this summer that will bring in some much needed improvements to the service. Xbox 360 will be receiving Paypal and Avatar Kinect support. There is six different upgrades that are scheduled to be released between May 19th and May 30th.
These Paypal upgrades are very important to Microsoft because it will open up new international markets that they aren’t current in. This means that you will no longer have to add your credit card into the Xbox Live system, making it a lot more secure than Playstation Network.
The SpeckBoy crew created and published for free a very cool set of icons to use in our website for the payment options. These icons come in eight different sizes.
We all know if we want to build a company or just a profitable site one of the things we need is offering the payment options directly on our web sites. This set of icons includes all of normal possibilities: PayPal, credit cards, check, bank transfer.
This icon sets download package contains the six icons, and include a choice of eight different sizes: 12px, 16px, 24px, 32px, 64px, 128px, 256px and 512px.
Download link here.
AnalyzePal it’s a free application that collects all of your PayPal transactions and generates some really nice stats and graphics, where you can check your historical virtual businesses connections.
PayPal has become one of the main tools that any webmaster, blogger and several web users could have in their virtual and real life. With eBay as one of the largest sites supporting PayPal, the “virtual money” has a different meaning and use.
AnalyzePal it’s an Adobe-AIR application that could be really helpful for you, which will let you analyze in detail your transactions in (using the free version) the last three months, where you can also export the data to a PDF.
One important disclaimer is that AnalyzePal does not connect to your PayPal account to retrieve the information, the input works with the logs you can download from your PayPal home page. That feature avoids any suspect that the tool could recollect some private information about the users and their transactions.
Other possibilities to use AnalyzePal are the Pro (U$S99) and Business (U$S199) versions, that have some improvements in the reporting area and other options. More info about versions here.
Facebook, undoubtedly the biggest social network at the minute, has been promoting and ramping up its ‘credits’ system over the past year or so. These ‘credits’ afford users the opportunity to use real world money to purchase gifts, apps and songs which can either be used by themselves or given as presents to other Facebook users.
Now, they are allowing users to pay with PayPal, which has in excess of 80 million users. Previous to this one could only purchase Facebook credits via credit card or by using their mobile phone. By intergrading with PayPal, Facebook will undoubtedly allow more people to use the service, particularly young people who may not have access to a credit card themselves but do have a PayPal account.
Recent speculation as to whether Facebook would be opening their own payment service to compete with PayPal have pretty much been put to bed with this recent update. Many people said that you would soon be able to “pay with Facebook” on eCommerce sites. However, it seems unlikely that Facebook and PayPal would be cooperating on such a big revenue-making deal whilst one party was plotting the downfall of the other.
PayPal seems to have established itself as the premier method for online payments. I have a paypal account which I use on a regular basis myself, but the process can actually complicate even the simplest of situations. In some cases PayPal seems a bit overkill when something easier could be used. This is where Paystr comes into play.
The online application allows you to set up your own web page for collections purposes. The customization far outweighs the impersonal requests that PayPal creates, with the invoices they allow you to create. Instead Paystr really want you to customize your efforts and your attempts to collect funds for a variety of things. The site declares that its services are great for parties, events, games, gifts or whatever it might be you are collecting for.The focus of Paystr is for the user to focus more on the actual project and less time on the actual collections.
The site is free, creating an account is easy, but standard “PayPal” fees apply. The online site accepts credit cards also, to make it easier for you to collect your funds ahead of time. You can set up multiple payment methods and multiple levels of products or services giving your audience options, ease of use, and safety of knowing their payments are secure.
You can also follow Paystr on Twitter, @Paystr, or connect with them via Facebook.
