Mobile payments got serious attention with the launch of Apple Pay, and PayPal is not sitting idly by. Dan Schulman announced his first acquisition as PayPal President, a Boston company called Paydiant that is working on an alternative to Apple’s Read more
While eBay and online sellers are only too familiar with the problem of bad buyers, a new academic paper seeks to shed light on what it calls a common but little known type of fraud, which it dubbed “liar buyer Read more
You can now send funds to the federal government using PayPal or Dwolla. The U.S. Department of the Treasury is moving away from paper payments and announced that its digital wallet Pay.gov now offers both PayPal and Dwolla as payment Read more
eBay’s previously announced layoffs have begun this week, and though details are sketchy so far, it appears workers in India may be bearing the brunt of it. Worldlypost.in reports that of the expected 2,400 global layoffs, 1,000 of those may come from units Read more
PayPal is facing new kinds of challenges overseas as it counts on BRIC countries for growth. BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China, and eBay Inc. has been making a big deal about the opportunities they provide over the past few Read more
PayPal co-sponsored an event on online authentication – not product authentication with which merchants are familiar, but rather, the process by which websites authenticate users when they log in to their systems. It used the event to introduce the FIDO Read more
PayPal has partnered with eBay rival Yahoo Small Business, the ecommerce and local-marketing arm of search giant Yahoo. The two are collaborating to help small retailers sell and process payments online. The head of PayPal North American Distribution Stephen Fusco Read more
PayPal launched a new dimension to its Credit offering, giving merchants the ability to offer shoppers customized financing. For sellers without the resources of a large retailer, it’s a way they can entice shoppers to make purchases now and pay Read more
PayPal got personal in a new survey of holiday shoppers, asking respondents, “what do you prefer to wear when you’re shopping online or on mobile (smartphone or tablet)?” The eBay payments unit commissioned the survey which conducted by GfK Custom Read more
A PayPal user (who is also a seller on eBay) said she discovered a problem that could lead to misdirected shipments. It’s a “buyer” issue but could also cause headaches for sellers as well. The user, who wished to remain Read more
