Starting next year Amazon customers will be able to pay on Amazon.com and Amazon’s mobile shopping app via Venmo, the mobile payment service owned by PayPal. It’s the latest deal… Read More
Seattle-based retailer Archie McPhee‘s slogan, “we make weird,” usually applies to the products they sell, such as mac & cheese-flavored candy canes or their internet-famous horse head mask. But in… Read More
— Microsoft named former GE executive Tom McGuinness corporate vice president of healthcare. At GE, McGuinness was president and CEO of GE Healthcare Imaging which offers imaging technologies, analytics and… Read More
Betting that users of its in-store payments hardware and web services want to use Square across their mobile apps as well, the company is launching a mobile software development kit… Read More
Venmo is jumping into the physical world of banking by offering its own Mastercard-branded debit card. PayPal-owned Venmo unveiled the card today, which is accepted everywhere that takes Mastercard. It… Read More
Skype users can now send money to one another thanks to a new partnership with PayPal. Called “Send Money,” the new feature lets Skype users in 22 countries link their… Read More
PayPal said recently that it has been talking with Amazon about adopting its payments service on Amazon.com, but the Seattle-based e-commerce giant is reporting significant growth today for its own rival payments service for third-party sites. A… Read More
Amazon customers could someday be able to use PayPal for their purchases. In an interview with Bloomberg News, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said the company has had discussions with Amazon about partnering, although… Read More
Microsoft and Expedia are among 68 companies that have signed an amicus brief from the Human Rights Campaign in support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s effort to block parts of North Carolina’s controversial… Read More
Amazon Payments is finally competing head-on with PayPal, Stripe and other payment processors. The retail giant announced today that it is expanding its Amazon Payments program to include e-commerce platforms… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, La. — On its surface, Venmo is a mobile app used by thousands of users each day to transfer money. But aside from being a convenient way to pay one… Read More
Now you have no excuses to split that dinner bill or pay your friend back for movie tickets. Today, PayPal is introducing a new peer-to-peer payment service that makes it… Read More
Subway customers can now skip the line by placing orders for their six-inch or foot-long sandwich on their phone or computer. The fast-food sandwich shop, which operates one of the largest… Read More
On its first day of trading as a publicly held company, PayPal’s value soared to $50 billion following its spin-out from eBay. That interest now appears to be fueling a secondary… Read More
eBay’s smaller payments unit isn’t so small anymore. PayPal, which enables peer-to-peer transactions and digital payments, is now worth $50 billion on its first day of trading. Meanwhile, it’s former parent… Read More
PayPal is worth roughly $44 billion during its first full-day of trading as an independent company. The San Jose, Calif.-based payments company, which plans to spin-out from eBay officially on… Read More
In just a couple of weeks, eBay and PayPal will no longer be bound together at the hip, ending a 13-year corporate marriage. The plan was originally announced last year, and last… Read More
PayPal is bringing a new service to the web that will let people make their purchases even faster. Called One Touch, the service rolling out today allows people to pay with PayPal… Read More
Palantir Technologies made its official entrance into the Seattle technology community last night with an upscale event in the Pioneer Square neighborhood —courting engineers with a full buffet and open bar, and providing… Read More
EBay is mulling a significant round of layoffs that could result in thousands of job losses early next year. Sources told The Wall Street Journal the cuts are primarily expected to occur in… Read More
Square has raised an additional $150 million in capital, valuing the six-year-old San Francisco payments company at $6 billion, reports The New York Times. Square, which was co-founded by Twitter’s… Read More
eBay shares are not getting a bump from Wall Street today, following Tuesday’s announcement that it is spinning off PayPal into a separate company. Shares of the San Jose-based company are trading lower… Read More
Shares of eBay jumped more than six percent on Tuesday as the online retailer and marketplace announced plans to spin off its PayPal payments business in 2015, a plan that was… Read More
You would have thought that new iPhones, the Apple Watch and an extensive mobile payments service would be enough to keep Wall Street happy. But even a private concert by U2, and… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – Merchants using Braintree’s payment platform will have a new currency to accept, thanks to a partnership between the company and Bitcoin processor Coinbase. Braintree CEO Bill Ready… Read More
Will book sellers, bike shop owners and electronics stores use Amazon as its payment provider if they are already worried about it stealing their business? Earlier today, Amazon rolled out a new mobile payments service that… Read More
PayRange, a startup that allows vending machines to receive smartphone payments, today confirmed a $2.75 million round and announced notable investors like former Google Payments head Osama Bedier and PayPal co-founder… Read More
PayPal President David Marcus has just been hired away by Facebook to head up the social network’s messaging division. The announcement is a huge loss to eBay-owned PayPal, which has gone… Read More
Amazon quietly unveiled a new initiative today that will encourage more companies to use its payments platform for the check-out process. The new offering is subtle, but will allow it to compete… Read More
PayPal went on the offensive today after a German-based security company demonstrated how a hacker could unlock the Samsung Galaxy S5 and put a PayPal user’s account at risk. In… Read More