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Amazon customers will be able to pay with Venmo next year

Starting next year Amazon customers will be able to pay on Amazon.com and Amazon’s mobile shopping app via Venmo, the… Read More

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Weird Seattle retailer Archie McPhee hit with even weirder PayPal problem, foiling Tardigrade sales

Seattle-based retailer Archie McPhee‘s slogan, “we make weird,” usually applies to the products they sell, such as mac & cheese-flavored… Read More

Tech Moves: GE Healthcare exec joins Microsoft; Puppet names new CTO; Adaptive Biotech expands

— Microsoft named former GE executive Tom McGuinness corporate vice president of healthcare. At GE, McGuinness was president and CEO… Read More

Square takes aim at Stripe, PayPal with new payments kit for mobile software developers

Betting that users of its in-store payments hardware and web services want to use Square across their mobile apps as… Read More

Venmo launches debit card with the ability to split purchases with friends

Venmo is jumping into the physical world of banking by offering its own Mastercard-branded debit card. PayPal-owned Venmo unveiled the… Read More

PayPal partners with Microsoft’s Skype, lets users send money to each other via messaging app

Skype users can now send money to one another thanks to a new partnership with PayPal. Called “Send Money,” the… Read More

Amazon adds 10M users to its payments service, escalating PayPal rivalry

PayPal said recently that it has been talking with Amazon about adopting its payments service on Amazon.com, but the Seattle-based e-commerce giant is reporting significant growth… Read More

Report: Amazon and PayPal have discussed payments partnership, PayPal CEO says

Amazon customers could someday be able to use PayPal for their purchases. In an interview with Bloomberg News, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman… Read More

Microsoft, Expedia join fight against North Carolina transgender ‘bathroom bill’

Microsoft and Expedia are among 68 companies that have signed an amicus brief from the Human Rights Campaign in support of the U.S.… Read More

Amazon expands payment platform with partner program for merchants

Amazon Payments is finally competing head-on with PayPal, Stripe and other payment processors. The retail giant announced today that it… Read More

Venmo’s secret sauce: PayPal CEO on the future of the fast-growing social payments app

NEW ORLEANS, La. — On its surface, Venmo is a mobile app used by thousands of users each day to transfer money.… Read More

PayPal rolls out a third option to make sending money to your friends easy

Now you have no excuses to split that dinner bill or pay your friend back for movie tickets. Today, PayPal… Read More

Subway partners with PayPal to let you order that foot-long sandwich from your phone

Subway customers can now skip the line by placing orders for their six-inch or foot-long sandwich on their phone or… Read More

Is PayPal’s strong public market reception fueling interest in Stripe and Square?

On its first day of trading as a publicly held company, PayPal’s value soared to $50 billion following its spin-out… Read More

It’s payday for PayPal: PayPal’s now worth $50 billion and eBay only $35 billion

eBay’s smaller payments unit isn’t so small anymore. PayPal, which enables peer-to-peer transactions and digital payments, is now worth $50 billion… Read More

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PayPal’s value soars to $44B as trading begins ahead of eBay spin-off

PayPal is worth roughly $44 billion during its first full-day of trading as an independent company. The San Jose, Calif.-based… Read More

Everything you need to know about eBay and PayPal’s split — and how it impacts Amazon

In just a couple of weeks, eBay and PayPal will no longer be bound together at the hip, ending a 13-year… Read More

PayPal brings ‘One Touch’ service to the web to speed check-out

PayPal is bringing a new service to the web that will let people make their purchases even faster. Called One Touch,… Read More

Inside Palantir’s swanky Seattle launch event: Secretive big data company courts engineers

Palantir Technologies made its official entrance into the Seattle technology community last night with an upscale event in the Pioneer Square… Read More

EBay looking to trim thousands of jobs next year, report says

EBay is mulling a significant round of layoffs that could result in thousands of job losses early next year. Sources told… Read More

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Square raises $150M to achieve a $6B valuation

Square has raised an additional $150 million in capital, valuing the six-year-old San Francisco payments company at $6 billion, reports… Read More

EBay trades lower as investors question reasons for PayPal spin off

eBay shares are not getting a bump from Wall Street today, following Tuesday’s announcement that it is spinning off PayPal into a separate… Read More

eBay to spin off PayPal in 2015, CEO John Donahoe stepping down

Shares of eBay jumped more than six percent on Tuesday as the online retailer and marketplace announced plans to spin off… Read More

Taking stock of the winners and losers: How Wall Street reacted to Apple’s announcements

You would have thought that new iPhones, the Apple Watch and an extensive mobile payments service would be enough to… Read More

Braintree teams with Coinbase to allow merchants to take Bitcoin

SAN FRANCISCO – Merchants using Braintree’s payment platform will have a new currency to accept, thanks to a partnership between… Read More

Mobile payments: Retailers weigh cost of using Amazon’s system, even if price is right

Will book sellers, bike shop owners and electronics stores use Amazon as its payment provider if they are already worried about it stealing their business?… Read More

Startup Spotlight: PayRange announces $2.7M round from PayPal co-founder, ex-Google Payments boss

PayRange, a startup that allows vending machines to receive smartphone payments, today confirmed a $2.75 million round and announced notable investors… Read More

Facebook poaches PayPal boss David Marcus to head up messaging

PayPal President David Marcus has just been hired away by Facebook to head up the social network’s messaging division. The announcement… Read More

Amazon beefs up its payments platform to compete against PayPal, Stripe

Amazon quietly unveiled a new initiative today that will encourage more companies to use its payments platform for the check-out process. The… Read More

PayPal downplays concern over the alleged Samsung Galaxy fingerprint hack

PayPal went on the offensive today after a German-based security company demonstrated how a hacker could unlock the Samsung Galaxy… Read More

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