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Many small businesses and entrepreneurs want to take credit cards online, but are put off by the time and capital investment required by a Merchant account, a gateway processor, secure server space, and a security certificate…all tools you need to succeed with e-commerce.
For many of these people I suggest “dipping their toe in the e-commerce [...]

Yahoo Search Ads Testing Paypal Cart IconAndrew Goodman at Traffick has stumbled across some Yahoo Search Marketing ads for eBay.com which are serving a Paypal Shopping Cart icon in the ad copy. This new addition to the Yahoo Search advertisements are incredibly similar to the Google Checkout Cart graphic being used in AdWords Ads by [...]

Identity theft stealing your peace of mind? Take control with Equifax Credit Alerts for PayPal Users.�? So begins an offer for a free credit-monitoring service from PayPal for its U.S. account holders. PayPal is teaming up with Equifax to provide the service, which it describes as “an early warning detection system that monitors your credit [...]

SolarCity, a startup that aims to tap in to the alternative energy market, said Wednesday it received $10 million in financing led by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk.
The funding represents the first round for the new solar panel installation company. Mr. Musk provided about 90 percent of the funding, and the balance came from private individuals. [...]

Finding a pocket for every gadget you own becomes especially difficult during the summer months, but now you can leave your wallet at home and pay for things using your cellphone instead.
The first way is through PayPal Mobile. Once you open an account, load it with money or link it with a credit card, you [...]

eBay’s online payment service PayPal updated some of its policies taking effect this month. PayPal will no longer be offering its Money Back Guarantee program as of September 14, 2006. Under the program, purchasers of the guarantee were allowed to resell merchandise to PayPal if they were unhappy with the item. The guarantee applied to [...]

Since late June, Kirby Witmer has twice tried buying electronics for his customers using Google Inc.’s online-payment feature, Google Checkout.But all he got were a couple of Google (GOOG) T-shirts.The first arrived after Witmer, who runs an electronics business called KirbTech from his home in Carlisle, Pa., canceled his order for a flat-screen monitor from [...]

PayPal co-founder Peter A. Thiel and his hedge-fund management company, Clarium Capital Management, are accused of fraud in a lawsuit filed Monday.The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by Amisil Holdings Ltd., names Thiel and Clarium as defendants, along with Clarium officers Jason Portnoy and Mark Woolway.Amisil, a risk [...]

Though PayPal is the de facto on-line payment system of choice (or perhaps of force), it doesn’t necessarily make them nice. There have been those horror stories of individuals being banned from PayPal just because someone they bought or sold from was less than honest. Now, add one more line to that laundry list of [...]

Paypal doesn’t want your business, even if it is perfectly legal.
Paypal:Multi-level marketing plans, also known as “network” or “matrix” marketing, include any business in which a person receives proceeds from his or her own sales of goods or services, of recruited members, or any combination thereof.
Similarly, PayPal prohibits as a Multi-Level Marketing plan any [...]