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Samsung taps Paypal to enhance mobile payments

Friday 4 October 2013 14:10 CET | News

PayPal has entered an agreement with global device manufacturer Samsung to provide the latter with its payment option.

Under the agreement, consumers are able to use PayPal to purchase their favorite content via the Samsung stores such as apps, books and other content types.

App developers can also choose to use PayPal to get paid. With PayPal payment method, users are set to be able to purchase TV shows, movies, games and other via the Samsung Apps and Samsung Hub without having to enter credit card information or address details.

PayPal is available as a payout option for Samsung Apps developers worldwide and can be used as a payment option for Samsung Apps and the Samsung Hub store in nine markets. Those markets include Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, UK with the US coming in the near future.

In recent news, PayPal has purchased Braintree for total consideration of about USD 800 million.


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