Bling Nation
PayPal's cashless utopia: Built on eBay's back
November 9, 2010: 2:54 PM ETPayPal is working hard to become the gold standard for online payments, chasing down Google and fending off the competition. Meantime, being the apple of eBay's eye, and its subsidiary, hasn't hurt either.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
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This week, PayPal is hosting an event in New York called "Cashless Utopia." PayPal's aim is to usher us in to this utopia by establishing itself as the standard mechanism by which we pay for everything – online, on mobile devices, and even in the physical world.
The "utopia" will surely come, eventually, though referring to it that way seems a bit hyperbolic. Whether or not PayPal will be the Thomas More (or the Todd Rundgren) of this new world is still unclear, but in the past few years, it has made incredible strides. More
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Bling Nation takes mobile payments local
Mobile payments company gets new investment, and a high-profile board member
Anyone who texted donations to the American Red Cross recently knows your cell phone is on its way to replacing your wallet.
From big banks and wireless companies to startups, there is fierce competition over who enables the new payment systems emerging. One Palo Alto-based startup thinks it has a plan to win: Bling Nation has $33 million in venture funding, MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Jan 28, 2010 7:14 AM ET
