PayPal offered some advice to retailers on attracting holiday shoppers to their online stores. The three “last-minute” tips came in the form of a blog post written by Dan Leberman, a vice president at PayPal. Don’t offer discounts to buy, Read more
eBay had some good news for sellers who use PayPal – “the window for PayPal Purchase Protection disputes to count as a defect will be reduced from 45 to 30 days” after an item’s latest estimated delivery date to the Read more
PayPal’s Braintree unit is launching a new instant sign-up flow for online merchants based in Europe. Braintree is targeted at developers, enabling web and mobile payments. It also offers a mobile application called Venmo that gives people an easy way Read more
A tweet from developer and Stanford student Andrew Aude caught the attention of TechCrunch and others when he posted, “@Facebook Messenger has P2P payments coming. @SquareCash style.” Facebook gave away its intentions when it hired David Marcus away from PayPal in June, Read more
Can a new $10 million fund help create some “killer apps” for online payment service Stripe? One of its investors, venture capital firm General Catalyst, is banking on a larger ecosystem to extend Stripe by launching the GC Stripe Platform Read more
With all the attention eBay received this week about its plans to breakup eBay and PayPal, the announcement on Tuesday that it had finally named a replacement to former PayPal president David Marcus may have been overlooked. eBay named Dan Read more
Several readers reached out to EcommerceBytes with some good news about PayPal. “As an offset to Paypal’s new 6 month claim window, I just received an email from them that they will provide next day electronic funds deposit to my Read more
eBay has no qualms about excluding other payment services from its marketplaces, as was the case when Google Checkout launched. But now it finds its own PayPal service shut out from Apple’s new digital wallet announced on Tuesday called Apple Pay. Read more
Up until today, the term “charge it” in relation to Apple products has referred to the devices’ batteries. But with the expected launch of an iWallet on Tuesday, it takes on a whole new meaning for mobile shoppers. A week Read more
Topping off the gas tank? There’s an app for that – or at least, an app that allows you to pay for it. PayPal announced a large chain of convenience stores in the Southeast has launched a mobile app that Read more
