New tools from Square will provide merchants with a closer look at how social media performs at bringing customers to a store. It will start with one of the biggest networks as it adds Facebook Ad Integration to the program Read more
PayPal will open a global operations center in North Carolina in the fall. It will create 400 jobs including positions in customer service, risk operations, engineering, and technology. PayPal Senior Vice President of Global Operations John McCabe said in a Read more
PayPal users have been experiencing technical issues for the last 2 weeks culminating in a major glitch on Thursday when payments seemed to become lost in cyberspace for most of the day. Buyers could provide a transaction number showing they Read more
In the quest to make online payments easier on mobile devices, companies like Amazon and Google are working on facial recognition and other technologies. Why fumble for change at the drive-through restaurant or type your password into your smartphone? Also Read more
PayPal is scaling back the spending at Braintree, the online payments service eBay acquired before the split, according to TheNextWeb.com “Perhaps indicating that it may have been a bit too lavish with its cash, PayPal-owned Braintree is cancelling its global “tech Read more
PayPal acknowledged an outage on Friday that impacted buyer’s ability to buy goods. It appeared the problem was widespread for up to several hours and then became intermittent. However, the problem continued to impact some users throughout the weekend. Sellers Read more
Stories about shoppers defrauded online crop up every day, and PayPal is often featured – sometimes portrayed as the good guy, sometimes as part of the problem. Witness the headline, “Scam of the Week: How PayPal could be risky business” Read more
Visa launched its Visa Checkout online payment service in 2014 with the help of former PayPal executive Sam Shrauger, now Senior Vice President of Digital Solutions at Visa. This week it previewed a new design that will launch in April Read more
PayPal is keeping busy – it launched a new marketing campaign called New Money that kicked off with a Super Bowl TV ad earlier this month, and last week it announced it had redesigned its mobile app. This week at the Read more
PayPal users in the UK have been unable to access funds since Friday; the company acknowledged the problem via Twitter on Saturday to say it was working to fix the problem. “As a seller, I can’t send anything until the Read more
