Paypal extends its reach significantly beyond eBay into general ecommerce

This is huge and should send shivers down the backs of all bankers.  Yahoo are destined to control the access to many ecommerce sites, including their own.  The potential impact is very strong control over the payment system, and increased disintermediation of banks.

Yahoo, eBay team up on e-commerce – Internet – News – ZDNet Asia

Yahoo will make eBay’s PayPal service the exclusive third-party provider of its online wallet, allowing customers to pay for Yahoo services from bank accounts, credit cards or balances associated with their PayPal accounts.

PayPal will also be integrated into product offerings for Yahoo merchants and publishers, including the Yahoo Publisher Network, Yahoo Search Marketing and Yahoo Merchant Solutions.

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