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
After a rumor surfaced that Alibaba’s new U.S. marketplace 11 Main might be considering dropping PayPal as a payment method, we checked in with company spokesperson Abbygail Reyes. Her response to our inquiry: “11 Main enables consumers to use credit cards directly Read more
eBay demonstrated yet again it can’t ignore a mobile device simply because it’s from a rival. Amazon’s new smartphone, called the Fire, just became available to consumers, and PayPal is ready with a mobile app. The move follow’s eBay’s launch of its Read more
After redesigning its logo and then its homepage earlier this year, PayPal has began rolling out a new “user experience,” which it announced last month in a post on the PayPal blog. But some sellers expressed confusion over the new design and functionality as Read more
There’s nothing like getting money into one’s hands faster, and PayPal is working on a program to make that a reality for customers such as online merchants who use the service to process their payments. PayPal launched a pilot program Read more
eBay sellers who use PayPal debit cards said over the weekend that the company sent them emails showing they were being shortchanged half a percent for purchases made in June. Sellers use the debit cards in order to get cashback Read more
Google had more to say about smart watches at its Google I/O developers conference on Wednesday and officially released the Android Wear SDK. The webosphere lit up with photos of smart watches from attendees. For years now, “mobile” has been Read more
VentureBeat says eBay executives fired PayPal president David Marcus “because his vision for the virtual-payment kingpin wasn’t working out,” a claim that eBay immediately refuted. In, “Resigned, my ass: PayPal president David Marcus was fired, say eBay, Inc. execs,” VentureBeat cited “a Read more
