Will This Technology Industry Follow the Facebook Model?

By Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson – Apr 5, 2014 at 10:00AM

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Mobile payments, and the technology involved, are growing and changing in a big way. Who stands to benefit the most from this sweeping trend?

In this segment from Friday's Where the Money Is, Motley Fool financial analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson discuss the upcoming Transact 14 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, covering all things payment technology. Matt will be in attendance at the conference, and will be keeping an eye on several trends, such as all-online banking, the payment businesses of companies such as eBay (EBAY 0.92%) through PayPal or Google (GOOGL -1.41%) (GOOG -1.30%) with its Gmail accounts and customers' ability to attach money to those accounts, the future of credit cards, and what role digital currencies such as BitCoin may have down the road.

David Hanson has no position in any stocks mentioned. Matt Koppenheffer has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends eBay, Google (A shares), Google (C shares), MasterCard, and Visa. The Motley Fool owns shares of eBay, Google (A shares), Google (C shares), MasterCard, and Visa. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.