Canadians want to pay with their mobiles, says PayPal

By Perry Hoffman

OTTAWA - In a presentation to the 2010 Mobile Money Forum in Ottawa last week, PayPal Canada said that mobile will be the next, and preferred, payment platform for a large portion of consumers. When the Web emerged as the “killer app” for the Internet, it brought a whole host of services such as data transfer protocols, hosting capabilities, payment gateways, remote ecommerce, robust search, web services, cloud computing and the emergence of social networking. Mobile takes advantage of all of these, explained Darrell MacMullen, GM at PayPal Canada. “Mobile is not necessarily a new channel or the new web...