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
PayPal will no longer allow users to accept P2P payments sent from Puerto Rico, it informed users, as the U.S. territory faces a dire financial crisis. “Person to person payments will not be available for payments sent from Puerto Rico after Read more
Etsy’s Senior Manager of Payment Operations responded to concerns over the company’s decision to add PayPal to its Direct Checkout payment option. Sellers now have no way to exclude PayPal if they want the benefits that Direct Checkout affords them. However, there’s Read more
After eBay gave sellers little advance warning that it was booting PayPal rivals from its marketplace, one such company, ProPay, is reaching out to eBay sellers impacted by the decision. Scott Nelson, Vice President of Marketing at ProPay, said his company had taken Read more
Etsy made a stunning announcement on Tuesday – it is adding PayPal to its Direct Checkout payment option. At first glance, it might not seem like a big deal – the online marketplace already allows sellers to accept PayPal. However, Read more
PayPal rival Skrill, formerly called Moneybookers, has been providing online payment solutions to the gambling industry for over 10 years. Now it looks like PayPal wants a piece of the action in the U.S., where it had prohibited its service Read more
PayPal has launched a new way for accountholders to get paid. You don’t have to give people your email address or send them to a page with a shopping cart in order to get paid – now you can create Read more
eBay gave PayPal rivals the boot last week, and one of the companies impacted said they were given some advance warning. ProPay said eBay gave them advance notice of its decision to prohibit sellers from offering its payment service as Read more
Only the Postal Service can access your mailbox, and last week, we wrote about an essay written by a UPS executive who’d like to see that change. The USPS has responded, making an argument for why it made sense for the Read more
