Archive for the 'Paypal News' Category

European and North American buyers eager to get their hands on Sony’s PlayStation 3 are turning to EBay after the first consoles started selling in Japan on 11 November.
Sony kicked [...]

Slide Inc., a start-up that allows Web users to publish online slideshows of photos and other digital media, said on Tuesday it had received additional funding from two top Silicon Valley venture firms.
Slide was started by Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal, the world’s most popular online payment service which was sold to online auctioneer eBay [...]

Google Inc. has begun making its Google Checkout online-payment feature available for free to merchants that choose to make it a payment option on their Web sites.
The Checkout-for-free promotion runs between Wednesday and Dec. 31, taking in the holiday-shopping season, according to Google spokeswoman Megan Lamb. Typically, Google charges a fee of 20 cents per [...]

eBay spokesperson Hani Durzy said authorities have confirmed that Tuesday evening’s explosion on the PayPal campus in San Jose, California, was not accidental. The device blew out a window, but there were no injuries, and all 45 employees were safely evacuated from the building.
Durzy said many employees had left early on Tuesday to take their [...]

Refunding buyers through PayPal, eBay’s online payment service, sounds like a simple process. However, there are some details that have message-boards buzzing with seller suggestions for how to manage the process while causing the least frustration to buyers and sellers.
Normally, a PayPal seller goes to the “History” tab, clicks on “details” for the item to [...]

PayPal, the payment-service company owned by online auction site eBay Inc., said Monday it will launch an incentive program, allowing customers who subscribe to the service to receive cash rebates of up to $20 on several thousand merchants’ sites in North America.
In a release, PayPal said that the cash rebate programs, valued at $100 million, [...]

Except for stepped-up security and some police tape strung between buildings, business was back to normal today at eBay’s North San Jose campus.
The bomb-sniffing dogs were gone and 1,900 employees were allowed to return to work for the first time since an explosive device blew out a window at the facility Tuesday night.
“We have increased [...]

We wrote about PayPal’s soft launch of their PayPal mobile service back in March. This is a service which allows you to pay for goods via your mobile phone.
PayPal announced on the 1st November 2006 that over a third of UK adults now have a PayPal account which is sure to bolster the mobile [...]

The headquarters of eBay, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:EBAY) PayPal division was apparently bombed on Halloween night, as the San Jose, California headquarters was partially evacuated after four plate-glass windows were blown out and police became immediately involved.
Investigators on the scene apparently were able to determine that the bomb blast was intentional. The blast was caused by an [...]

HP will offer PayPal as a payment option at the HP Home & Home Office Store, the company announced on Thursday. “Adding PayPal as a payment option gives our customers more choices and even greater convenience,” said Sam Taylor, senior vice president, Consumer Direct, HP.

Stephanie Tilenius, vice president of merchant services for PayPal, said, “We [...]