eBay sats that third-party checkout solutions, like Google Checkout, will no longer be supported on eBay after June 30, 2011. eBay says that other checkout solutions (besides PayPal) are only used less than 10 percent of the time on eBay.com.
As with all such decisions, one suspects a heightened sense of competitive threat is playing a large role in eBay's thinking.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/223346-ebay-to-ban-google-checkout-what-about-that-paypal-android-deal?source=feed
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
eBay to Ban Google Checkout: What About That PayPal-Android Deal?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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