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iTWire - Paymate issues open challenge to eBay over buyer and sell protection
Australian-based Internet payment services provider Paymate has issued an open challenge to eBay Australia to prove claims made to iTWire last week that eBay-owned PayPal offers better buyer and seller protection than Paymate are true. In addition, Paymate says that its payment system [...]

24/7 Wall St.: EBay (EBAY): Spinning Off PayPal
EBay (EBAY) can post pretty good results, and the market does not care. Yesterday, the online auction company put up an earnings increase of 26% on a revenue pop of 24% to almost $2.2 billion. EBay was a bit cautious about what would happen the rest of the [...]

 Auctionbytes
PayPal will roll out a risk reduction program for eBay sellers in the U.S. and Canada over the next few months. PayPal first announced the Payment Review program in June at the eBay Live conference. PayPal said the program is an early-warning system designed to help protect sellers from fraudulent payments.
Payment Review is automatic (eBay [...]

SC Magazine

PayPal and eBay are easily the most common brands used in online scams, a PhishTank report reveals.
The inaugural report – based on the end-user submission of almost 300,000 emails believed to be phishes – shows PayPal and its parent eBay served as the lure in 63,437 verified phishing emails.
PayPal was spoofed in 31,719 emails, [...]

 Washingtonpost.com
There’s more to e-commerce than assembling a flashy Web site. If a business wants to sell products or services online, it has to figure out how to accept electronic payments.
For small firms working on a tight budget, a customized e-payment system may be out of reach. Enter PayPal, the online payment service owned by auction [...]

 iTwire
Yahoo Mail is today applying the DomainKeys authentication technology to block emails purporting to be from eBay or PayPal.
DomainKeys allows an email server to verify that an email really did originate from the domain it claims to be from. So a phishing email coming from a zombie PC connected to an ISP cannot include a [...]

As seen in the post “Your Pal, My Pal, PayPal”, Yahoo! Publisher Network Webmasters and Publishers……
 can now choose to pay through Pay Pal Transfers.
Michael Mattis, Blog Editor at Yahoo! Publishers Network’s official blog writes, “Today at Yahoo! Publisher Network we’re pleased, and I mean pleased, to announce that publishers in our network now have the [...]

PayPal, the online payment service of Internet auctioneer eBay Inc., has taken two more steps in its effort to diversify its transaction base beyond the eBay fold. This week it announced it would use IP Commerce Inc. technology to enable small businesses to easily send invoices and receive payment through PayPal. That new service followed [...]

Consumers under 35 years of age are evolving very different online payment and content consumption habits from adults over 35. In a new report titled, “Payment Preferences Online: Managing the Generation Gap Between Mature and Young Adults,” JupiterResearch found that younger adults are driving much of the usage of PayPal and debit cards for online [...]

EBay Inc., the world’s largest online auctioneer, added Spanish, French and Chinese websites for its PayPal payment services unit to help boost its overseas sales and extend its lead over Google Inc.’s rival Checkout service.
PayPal added service to 87 countries, including Cambodia, Greenland and Kazakhstan, San Jose-based EBay said in a statement. PayPal now serves [...]