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• Why mobile payments can't come soon enough

  Services from Google, Square and Intuit are already simplifying consumer credit. But it's the long-term changes that will redefine how merchants, banks and consumers interact.

  This is the second in a series of articles leading up to the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, which will be held from July 19-21 in Aspen, Colorado. Fortune Brainstorm Tech will round up many of the best and brightest thinkers in technology. Our coverage in this MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 1, 2011 5:00 AM ET
  Posted in: eBay, Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Google, Google Checkout, GoPayment, Mobile payment, PayPal, Stephanie Tilenius

• Google wants to replace your wallet with its Wallet (but you still pay)

  Google new NFC-enabled services, Wallet and Offers, are ambitious, but getting all of the pieces to work together will be difficult.

  FORTUNE -- At yesterday's Google Wallet/Offers launch event in New York, Google (GOOG) laid out a very compelling case for using NFC-enabled Android phones to make payments at physical merchants. The company trotted out launch partners including the Container Store, Subway, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) and Walgreens (WAG).  On the backend, Google MORE

  Seth Weintraub - May 27, 2011 4:16 PM ET
  Posted in: Android, Container Store, Google, Google Checkout, Groupon, iPhone, Nexus S, T-Mobile

• Today in Tech: How Blockbuster lost to Netflix

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  "The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself." -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Fortune)

  * NFC is here! After much speculation, Google finally announced Google Wallet, a mobile payment system that enables future Android smart phones (and Sprint's current Nexus S)  to be used for payments simply by MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 27, 2011 6:30 AM ET
  Posted in: Facebook, Google, Google Checkout, Mark Zuckerberg, Osama Bedier, PayPal, Stephanie Tilenius, Steve Ballmer, YouTube

• PayPal's cashless utopia: Built on eBay's back

  PayPal 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

  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 MORE

  Nov 9, 2010 2:54 PM ET
  Posted in: Bling Nation, eBay, Google, Google Checkout, Mastercard, PayPal, StubHub, Todd Rundgren

• Google Checkout becomes important again for Chrome Store

  Google's monetary exchange service, temporary sidelined, is poised to make a comeback as the exchange for the Chrome Web Store.

  Google's Chrome project(s) are about getting people to do things on the web in a browser (as opposed to say an app).  One of the bigger aspects of this strategy is Google's intent to create a kind of App Store for Web developers, which allows them to both make some money MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Sep 24, 2010 12:29 AM ET
  Posted in: Chrome, Chrome Store, Google, Google Checkout

• Google's Checkout perks paying off

  By Yi-Wyn Yen

  Since Google launched its Checkout online payment service 18 months ago, industry insiders have wondered if its aggressive marketing promotions were worth the money.

  The company, which has been tight-lipped about the performance of its Checkout campaign, revealed new figures to Fortune on Monday that suggest it's making inroads in luring customers and merchants.

  Google says web shoppers who've signed up for Checkout -- which stores credit card and other MORE

  yiwyn - Dec 18, 2007 8:00 AM ET
  Posted in: Adwords, Google, Google Checkout, PayPal