{"id":18079,"date":"2012-07-18T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=18079"},"modified":"2012-07-18T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T10:28:16","slug":"paypal-acquires-credit-card-scanning-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/18079\/paypal-acquires-credit-card-scanning-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal acquires credit card scanning platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal as bought Card.io, a visual credit card scanning platform, adding the company\u2019s technology to its portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Card.io allows credit cards to be visually scanned through the use of a smartphone camera, picking up numbers and expiry dates so that users don\u2019t have to manually enter the information.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal plans to incorporate the system into its digital wallet, making mobile payments more convenient and easy.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, PayPal VP of global product, Hill Ferguson wrote that, \u201cThe employees at card.io will be joining the PayPal global product team in San Jose to help us create new experiences to make it even easier for consumers and merchants to use the PayPal digital wallet. The current card.io technology will remain available to developers for use in their own&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5FxhsmEw_WE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepaypalblog.com\/2012\/07\/paypal-acquires-card-io\/\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal blog<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/54485-cool-things-invented-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cool things invented in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/9511\/survey-reveals-most-satisfied-internet-banking-customers\/\"><strong>Survey reveals most satisfied internet banking customers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Best and worst banks in South Africa: consumer survey\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/8276\/best-and-worst-banks-in-south-africa-consumer-survey\/\">Best and worst banks in South Africa: consumer survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/6917\/banking-withdrawal-fees-who-is-the-cheapest\/\"><strong>Withdrawal fees \u2013 how SA banks stack up<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal picks up card scanning technology through acquisition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":18089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,3594,3595,149,3596],"class_list":["post-18079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-card-io","tag-credit-card-scanner","tag-paypal","tag-visual-scanner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18107,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18079\/revisions\/18107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}