PayPal users have experienced problems logging in to their account over the past several days, while others are having problems sending payments or accessing certain pages. A report came in to Ecommerce EKG on Tuesday: “Can’t login, says – “Some of your Read more
Amazon launched a new program on Monday to help ecommerce platform providers and developers offer its Amazon Payments payment-processing service to their merchant customers. Spokesperson Tom Cook told EcommerceBytes it was another step Amazon is taking to expand the number Read more
Square is now letting retailers and online merchants use its payment-processing services on their online stores. The company revolutionized in-person payment processing for small retailers and micro sellers by offering a credit-card reader that works with mobile devices. This week, Read more
Visa Checkout is making it easier for more people to sign up for an account, it announced this week. Bank of America is helping customers enroll in Visa Checkout by directly populating their Bank of America cards into Visa Checkout Read more
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
