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PayPal Introduces Mobile to Mobile NFC Money Transfers

July 13, 2011 by Mobile Payment Magazine

PayPal introduced its money transfer widget at the MobileBeat technology conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. PayPal’s new widget uses Near-Field Communications technology, which lets you pay for purchases with a wave of your smartphone.

PayPal’s widget allows for money transfers between two NFC-enabled phone holders. Say you want to transfer money to another PayPal user. They’ll request a specific amount of money from you on their phone, and after you tap your NFC-enabled phones together, the cash transfers from your PayPal account to the other.

Read more, via Wired.com.

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