Ecommerce Industry News
PayPal launched the new PayPal Checkout with Smart Payment Buttons offering today. It is designed to boost conversions by presenting relevant payment methods, including PayPal, Venmo, PayPal Credit. It also provides merchants with insights about […]
PayPal is acquiring risk management platform Simility for $120 million in cash after investing in the company last year. It will help PayPal merchants avoid fraud. It is the latest in a string of acquisitions […]
eBay and PayPal extended their consumer-credit relationship, PayPal announced on Tuesday, meaning eBay will continue to accept and promote PayPal Credit on its Marketplace platform. The two companies broke up in 2015, and eBay will […]
PayPal is acquiring a company called Hyperwallet, which it calls “a leading global payout platform.” Or as the company says on its website, “Go global, pay local.” While it’s relatively easy to pay employees, service […]
eBay will begin testing a new payments system in July and shuffled some managers overseeing technology to help prepare for the impact on eBay’s platform. eBay appointed Steve Fisher, its current Chief Technology Officer (CTO), […]
Discogs is going down the same path as Etsy and eBay by becoming a payments intermediary, and will use the same payments processor to power Discogs Payments that eBay chose. Discogs is known for its […]
PayPal has acquired Jetlore, an ecommerce service that helps retailers offer personalized search results using “Predictive Ranking,” which matches each customer’s unique preferences directly to inventory in real time. The acquisition is an effort to […]
PayPal is turning to an acquisition for growth, betting on international and in-store opportunities. On Thursday it announced it had agreed to acquire iZettle, allowing it to expand offerings in 12 markets while adding in-store […]
Amazon users can now load up their account balance by adding cash at a Coinstar kiosk. Here’s the pitch to buyers: “Want to shop on Amazon.com without a credit or debit card? Now you can […]
Norah Coelho, PayPal UK’s Director of Business Financing, took to the corporate blog last week to share the news of a milestone reached by its PayPal Working Capital program. PayPal launched the program in the […]