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Re:Paypal Adds Innovative ‘Bump’ To Mobile Payment Suite by CWuestefeld on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @01:53PM (#1232523)
I liked that feature. My coworkers and I would use it to settle up with each other when we went out for lunch. I never knew why they discontinued it.
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Re:Paypal Adds Innovative ‘Bump’ To Mobile Payment Suite by qeorge on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @02:17PM (#1232591)
Max Levchin talks about this in jl's Founders At Work. They made the web app mostly as a place to offer the Palm Pilot app for download, but it took off much to everyone's surprise.

IIRC, when they finally abandoned the Palm Pilot app it had 12k active users vs. millions using the web app. So as much as the Palm Pilot app was their baby, it was an easy decision.

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Re:Paypal Adds Innovative ‘Bump’ To Mobile Payment Suite by chasingsparks on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @05:12PM (#1233035)
Also see: The PayPal Wars.

http://www.amazon.com/PayPal-Wars-Battles-Media-Planet/dp/09...

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