Archive for the 'Paypal News' Category

PayPal, both the United Kingdom and United States sites, launched a new service recently that allows merchants to take payments online without using the normal hosted payment gateway that PayPal has used in the past. This new service comes with three main features: Express Checkout, Direct Payment API and Virtual Terminal. Together, they let merchants [...]

PayPal has launched a product aimed at helping small and medium businesses accept online payments securely and cost-effectively.
The Website Payments Pro product is the first non-hosted payment suite from PayPal, a subsidiary of online auction giant eBay. It includes Express Checkout, Direct Payment API and Virtual Terminal functions, so firms can let shoppers choose how [...]

PayPal, the online-payment company owned by eBay., said Friday that it plans to launch a new service this year designed to make it easier to pay for items using cell phones and other mobile devices.
Cell phone users can currently buy items through PayPal using the standard version of the service that Internet retailers use on [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

PayPal unveiled its new 125,000-square-foot Operations Center in La Vista’s Southport East Business Park last Wednesday.
Above, PayPal executives conduct a tour with Gov. Dave Heineman and other community members after the grand opening festivities last Wednesday.
The company, which handles payment transactions over the Internet and is owned by eBay, opened an operations center in La [...]

Megaglobe.com, a new international search engine, has forged a unique e-commerce partnership with PayPal.
According to the innovative two-payment system, users can either pay with credit cards issued in 50 different currencies, or with a PayPal multi-currency option.
In addition to its powerful search formula, Megaglobe comes in as many as 45 different languages, and its advertisements [...]

SAN JOSE Officials from eBay Inc. and its payments division PayPal Inc. have recently held private discussions in Washington about the possibility of applying for a limited banking charter, according to two people familiar with the company’s moves.
The charter would reduce PayPal’s dependency on partnerships with other banks.
But San Jose-based eBay’s plans were thrown into [...]

There are several scams circulating the phone lines, snail mail and of course the internet. Internet scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and more and more realistic. These so called phishing scams can come up on anyone’s email account, and a lot of them look legit and are complete with logos.
“They used to do it on [...]

When Google launched an online-payment service called Google Checkout last year, many analysts saw it as a serious threat to eBay’s PayPal, which is currently the leader in online payment, offering its services not just through eBay but through million of other sites.
Now it appears that Microsoft would like to join the online-payment party. At [...]