Archive for March 22nd, 2007

  • Skype Gets Linked Financially to PayPal

    Skype is moving into the transactions space, the company’s CEO and founder Niklas Zennstrom announced Tuesday at VON. The company, which has more than 171 million users, now offers a variety of services and features including the ability for users to send money to each other, an online marketplace and a local business listing search [...]

  • PayPal Growing In UK

    Nearly 35 million people throughout Europe use PayPal to make online payments, the company announced today.
    PayPal, the online payment branch of auction website eBay, gave separate figures for Europe and the UK for the first time, having previously only separated its results into US and rest of the world.

    The figures show that in the UK, [...]

  • PayPal Makes eBay’s Growth Look Good

    eBay Inc.’s (NASDAQ:EBAY) online payment system, PayPal, now has nearly 35 million accounts in Europe, about a quarter of the service’s worldwide total. Forrester Research also says that 23% of Europeans prefer PayPal to credit cards or alternate ways of making payments online.PayPal is looking more and more like the future driver of the company’s [...]

  • Australian Man Guilty of Hacking eBay Accounts

    An Australian man pleaded guilty to breaking into eBay and a local bank to steal AU$42,000 (about $34,000), in a case that demonstrates the problem of account takeovers on the auction site.
    Dov Tenenboim, 21, of the Sydney suburb of North Bondi, stood accused of breaking into at least 90 different eBay seller accounts last year, [...]