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
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
