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
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 is now banning sellers from offering PayPal rivals ProPay and Skrill as payment methods on its marketplace. The move comes the same day PayPal raised fees for merchants processing over $3,000/month in payments – a 32% increase for higher Read more
PayPal is acquiring a company called Modestso it can capitalize on what it called “contextual commerce.” It pointed to social media sites and their increasing moves to offer visitors instant shopping experiences as the reason – including Buyable Pins that make Read more
PayPal hired a new PR executive to help manage the company’s brand, according to PR Week. Ben Edwards will work to help consumers understand how PayPal can offer safer, simpler, and more affordable ways to manage and move money. He will Read more
PayPal is taking flight as a newly independent company with some help from a former United Airlines executive. John Rainey will join the company as PayPal’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Rainey was CFO for United, managing its overall financial strategy Read more
PayPal is putting its recent acquisition of Paydiant to use. Soon you’ll be able to pay for a “footlong” submarine sandwich at Subway using PayPal on your mobile phone or through the restaurant’s website. Paydiant helped build the new Subway Read more
The world’s biggest online shopping day isn’t Black Friday or Cyber Monday – it’s Singles Day in China. PayPal is advising merchants to prepare now if they want to take advantage of the holiday that Alibaba has turned into a Read more
While eBay had a lot of explaining to do in the media on Monday about its future direction following its breakup, PayPal appeared to be giddy with excitement about what it called its next chapter. And, it seems, with good Read more
