Let the custody battles begin. Shareholder activist Carl Icahn reversed course today, saying he no longer supported the idea that PayPal be completely spun off from eBay. Since January, Icahn… Read More
Shareholder activist Carl Icahn continues a daily stream of threats aimed at eBay and PayPal, and yet has failed to make public his full business case for separating the two… Read More
The Skype spin-off has become a core piece of evidence in Carl Icahn’s campaign to force eBay to spin-off PayPal into a separately traded company. In response, eBay issued a letter… Read More
You may be seeing more “Pay with Amazon” buttons around the web starting today. Amazon announced today that it’s rolling out “Login and Pay With Amazon,” a service that allows… Read More
Cash and credit cards are so last year. Kirkland-based Viableware today announced a partnership with PayPal, allowing customers to make purchases with PayPal at restaurants using the company’s handheld payment device. Viableware’s RAIL… Read More
Editor’s Note: Nerd Notes is GeekWire’s roundup of random geekiness from around the globe. National Day of Unplugging (NDU): Beginning tonight at sunset, and ending 24 hours later, citizens across the… Read More
The digital and physical worlds are colliding, and Coinstar is poised to take advantage of the trend. The latest example is today’s news that the Bellevue-based coin-counting kiosk operator plans… Read More
We get to explore one of our favorite activities on this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, talking in the studio with a pinball competitor and a pinball collector representing… Read More
Mobile technologies are changing the way we do a lot of things, from reading books to taking photos to consuming news. Now, a new service being rolled out by PayPal… Read More
Ignition Partners is leading a $10 million venture capital round in WePay, a Silicon Valley online payments company. The money will be used to build out the company’s team and… Read More
Well, at the end of the day and after weeks of speculation, Yahoo didn’t go with a former Microsoft or ex-Amazon.com exec for the CEO post. Instead, the struggling Silicon… Read More
We’ve been watching in amazement over the past 18 months or so as Amazon.com has risen to prominence as one of the most dominant companies in technology. (And yes, in… Read More