PayPal is offering a shopping cart plug-in that can help turn e-commerce sites meant for desktop PCs into a mobile-optimised store in less than an hour, as part of its efforts to make payment easy on the phone.

This “Mobile Commerce in a Box” concept means that potential customers who browse to the site on a smartphone will be automatically redirected to the mobile-optimised site, where they can then proceed to shop and check out with PayPal. …

Singaporeans are still leery of doing financial transactions on the Internet, according to a recent survey by Paypal.

The research study, which was commissioned by PayPal and executed by Nielsen, collected over one thousand responses from Sinagporeans in a two-week survey period from end July to early August 2011.

The key criteria to be included in the study was having transacted online or through a mobile device in the past three months.

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There’s now another way to pay for those air tickets to the Maldives when you buy them over the Singapore Airlines website.

Besides credit cards, the airline now accepts payment via the popular PayPal service as well, as it rolls out an alternative payment service to customers in the United States and six Asia-Pacific markets in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.  …