{"id":6783,"date":"2012-02-27T13:54:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T13:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2012-02-27T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T13:57:51","slug":"ebay-forecasts-strong-mobile-growth-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/6783\/ebay-forecasts-strong-mobile-growth-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"EBay forecasts strong mobile growth in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EBay Inc forecast robust growth in its mobile commerce segment as the online commerce and auction site expects more people to shop and pay via smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been making a particularly strong push in mobile commerce and developing new applications for its e-commerce platforms.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, eBay expects to do $8 billion in mobile commerce retail volume, and its electronic payments system PayPal expects to process $7 billion in mobile payment volume.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, eBay mobile commerce generated $5 billion in retail volume, and PayPal mobile generated $4 billion in payment volume.<\/p>\n<p>In January eBay gave a conservative quarterly sales forecast despite unveiling better-than-expected results, warning that a weak European economy may take the gloss off rip-roaring growth in online commerce.<\/p>\n<p>The company also announced a new partnership with carrier three.co.uk and strategic agreements with merchants such as Yotel and entradas.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EBay Inc forecast robust growth in its mobile commerce segment as the online commerce and auction site expects more people to shop and pay via smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,803,149,117],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-ebay","tag-paypal","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6785,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions\/6785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}