In a significant move, eBay has opened its Managed Payments platform to third-party developers. eBay shared the news with developers at its annual eBay Connect developers conference, which kicked off on Tuesday. eBay began rolling out Managed Payments last year Read more
The word innovation gets thrown around a lot by tech companies, and sometimes it seems decisions are made just for the sake of innovation rather than to pursue realistic opportunities. But PayPal’s Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready lent a steady Read more
Last month, eBay said it was not launching a cryptocurrency (“Cryptocurrency is not accepted as a form of payment on the eBay platform, nor is it part of our payments strategy”). Today, it signaled its openness to someday offering cryptocurrency Read more
The value of currency is its wide acceptance, and the same is true of virtual currency. That helps explain why so many prominent technology and financial services firms are joining together to launch a new global crypto currency called Libra, Read more
PayPal launched a commerce platform today, but it isn’t competing with eBay (or other marketplaces). Rather, it’s a solution for marketplaces, ecommerce solution providers, and crowdfunding platforms, including Facebook Marketplace and BigCommerce. What’s new is how PayPal is bringing its Read more
At the same time PayPal was heralding a milestone in lending to small businesses, it was drumming up more business through an email marketing campaign. In a blog post on Wednesday, it announced, “More than five years since providing access Read more
Amazon Pay will be speaking about payment innovations at several events next month. Amazon Pay Vice President Patrick Gauthier will be speaking at Money 20/20 Europe in a session titled, “Delivering for the connected consumer in the new era of Read more
eBay recently denied it was planning to launch virtual currency, but Facebook seems increasingly likely to do so. The BBC reported that Facebook had met with the Bank of England on plans to set up a digital payments system in Read more
PayPal is updating its User Agreement effective July 9, 2019. The company highlighted several changes in three categories (buyers, sellers, and sellers with PayPal Website Payments Pro and Virtual Terminal Agreements). The change that looks to be of greatest interest Read more
eBay is losing its Chief Technology Officer in 2 days, it announced in a filing with the SEC on Wednesday. (See update below.) “On May 15, 2019, eBay Inc. announced that Steve Fisher, Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, is Read more
