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PayPal Takes On Square with ‘PayPal Here’
Square, the tiny credit-card reader for smartphones and tablets, is the most interesting thing to happen to payments in a long time. Among the people who think it’s interesting are the executives at payment behemoth PayPal. And …
SOPA: What if Google, Facebook and Twitter Went Offline in Protest?
Can you imagine a world without Google or Facebook? If plans to protest the potential passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) come to fruition, you won’t need to; those sites, along with many other well-known online …
Big Deal: A Major New Player (eBay’s PayPal) Enters the Daily Deal Market
Without question, Groupon has been a tremendous business success story thus far, inspiring the legions on copycat daily deal sites, along with the previously unheard-of notion that coupons can, in fact, be cool. The latest major …
PayPal, eBay: Not So Fast, Google Wallet, You’re Sued!
From launch day press coverage bonanza to dismal other-shoe-drops lawsuit, it looks like Google Wallet may have some splainin’ to do. Or at least PayPal and eBay think it does.
Google took the wraps off its new mobile e-payment service yesterday, a service that promises to let you abandon plastic cards and just use your smartphone …
Xbox 360 Update Includes PayPal Integration, Support for New Disc Format
In about a week’s time, owners of Microsoft’s game console will have another way to pay for their Xbox Live memberships and DLC, when PayPal support happens by way of a spring update. If you’re setting up through the Xbox accounts web site, you can already choose the popular payment service as a billing option but the update will let you …
eBay Diversifies With Where.com, But is Hyperlocal Really the Future?
With today’s estimated $135 million acquisition of Where.com – the hyperlocal media company that will soon offer deals based on user geotargeting – eBay not only adds another channel to its growing number of revenue streams, but also plants its foot firmly in the growing world of offline commerce.
Under eBay’s PayPal arm, …
Visa Moves In On PayPal’s Turf With Payment Service
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PayPal is about to get some competition from one of its own partners as Visa announced a new personal payments service on Wednesday. The offering would allow anyone from a participating bank to send payments directly to any Visa account, whether it be a credit, …
Apple, Paypal, Amazon Sued Over One-Click Checkout Technology
There’s a lot to be said for the ease of one-click checkout systems, but Amazon, Apple and PayPal may learn to regret their early adoption thanks to lawsuits brought against all three companies by a little-known Washington software company called Cordance Corp.
Cordance is claiming that the three companies, along with Victoria’s …
Hackers Target MasterCard for Blocking WikiLeaks Payments
A group of hackers simply going by the name “Anonymous” is targeting companies that have blocked whistleblowing site WikiLeaks from using their services.
The latest target is MasterCard, whose site mastercard.com has currently been knocked offline thanks to a series of DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks against it. On a very …
PayPal Experiencing Site Outage
Many users who are attempting to use PayPal are finding their orders are not going through. The problem is affecting the live site, including the PayPal APIs, the official website, the Website Payments Standard, Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition and Express Checkout.
The popular online payment service started experiencing …