A power outage at a data center on Thursday evening was able to bring PayPal to its knees and wreak havoc for independent merchants as well as buyers and sellers on eBay and Etsy – and the problem proved quite Read more
It was a big day for PayPal on Wednesday (and presumably for Carl Icahn) when the payments firm announced its first quarterly earnings since splitting from eBay in July. Icahn was the investor who pushed for the breakup – but Read more
PayPal is launching a program in which it will pick up the cost of return shipping if a shopper is unhappy with their purchase. “Return Shipping on Us” is a program in which PayPal refunds return shipping costs to consumers Read more
After a three-hour outage on Sunday afternoon that left PayPal users unable to log in to the site, technical problems on PayPal continued. Within hours after the login problem subsided, reports began surfacing from users who said their payments were Read more
PayPal was inaccessible for many users beginning shortly before 2 pm EST Sunday afternoon. Reports came flooding in to Twitter, Ecommerce EKG, the eBay boards, and on glitch-reporting sites indicating that the PayPal homepage was live, but attempts to login to Read more
Etsy is making its own checkout system mandatory for all new shops, whether they’re opened by new sellers or by existing sellers wishing to expand or diversify. That means sellers who want to use their own PayPal account in new Read more
October 1st represents the deadline for most merchants to accept Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) chip-equipped credit cards at their terminals. Should a merchant only process payments with the familiar magnetic stripe reader, and end up taking a counterfeit card, Read more
PayPal scored a big win by getting Macy’s to accept its online payment service – and the retailer will accept PayPal not only online and on mobile, but in-store as well. It’s particularly notable since Macy’s hadn’t previously accepted PayPal Read more
PayPal rival Stripe is powering the new Twitter Buy button as it helps companies move ecommerce to mobile devices. Stripe launched Relay this week, a set of tools (called API) for developers – “People can buy products directly within your Read more
The debut of Google’s latest service offers consumers toting Android-based phones the opportunity to bring Google even closer to how people live each day. The company’s Android Pay has begun rolling out to millions of smartphone users, letting them pay with their Read more
