Sat 18 Jun 2005
The online search giant Google is getting ready to launch an online electronic payment system some time later this year. This would pose the biggest thread to eBay’s PayPal service known to many over the last few years. EBay bought PayPal in 2002 for about 1.3 million to incorporate the service in its own online auction. Google’s profits had been strictly depended on the advertising but this type of service might bring potential revenues and possibly make Google less dependent on ads.
Google declines to comment.First quarter returns:
PayPal : $233.1 million
Google: $1.26 billion
2 Responses to “New Google service to compete with paypal”
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June 18th, 2005 at 6:16 pm
go google
June 18th, 2005 at 7:07 pm
I dont think google will be able to compete with PayPal, its too widespread, and no doubt eBay will prevent the Google service from being used on eBay.com