BII CHART OF THE DAY: PayPal's Mobile Payment Bonanza Business Insider Intelligence is a new research and analysis service for real-time insight and intelligence about the Internet industry. The product is currently in beta. For more information, and to sign up for a free 30-day trial, click here. PayPal revealed that they processed nearly $4 billion in mobile payments last year, up from a miniscule $25 million in 2008. To give you an idea of mobile commerce's astronomical growth, PayPal initially predicted $1.5 billion in mobile payments for the year before raising before raising projections to $3 billion in June. PayPal is rolling out new point-of-sale technology at Home Depot and is rumored to be partnering with AJB Software to expand to other big box retailers. With rival Square now processing $11 million a day (up from $4 million in July), we are very bullish on the mobile payments market. Forrester estimated in June that mobile commerce will reach $31 billlion by 2016, and even that may look conservative now. Yesterday at CES, eBay CEO John Donahoe said that PayPal expects to handle $7 billion in mobile transactions this year. We think mobile payments are on an exponential trajectory and they'll do even more than they think. 
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