01-20-2007, 10:08 AM
Quote:Its official: Google and eBay are at war over online payments. This week, Mountain View, California-based Google upped the ante by offering a link on its homepage to its online payment service, Google Checkout, which included a special offer for a $10 rebate on merchandise.
This is just one of many such promotions, said Benjamin Ling, product lead for Google Checkout, who said that Google is very happy with the progress it has gained in the marketplace.
Yet, after six months on the market Google Checkouthyped by some as a PayPal killerisnt close to toppling that dominant player in the online payment arena. PayPal, which is part of San Jose, California-based eBay, commands a 42 percent adoption rate among online shoppers, compared with Google Checkouts 6 percent, according to A J.P. Morgan survey of 1,100 consumers released Wednesday. Could it be possible that Google is starting to panic a little bit? asks Tim Boyd, analyst at Caris & Co...
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