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PayPal acquires mobile commerce platform Modest, run by Obama’s former...
PayPal has made its first acquisition since it became a standalone public company. It announced today the purchase of the mobile commerce platform Modest, to bring in expertise in contextual commerce....
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PayPal’s One Touch checkout service now available across Europe and Australia
There’s no argument that mobile is the most promising frontier for commerce. Delivering on that potential, however, very much depends on making payment as fluid as possible. Today PayPal One Touch is...
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Activist investor Carl Icahn ditches his eBay stake in favor of PayPal
NEW YORK (By Sam Forgione for Reuters) — Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn swapped his entire equity stake in eBay Inc for the same number of shares in PayPal Holdings Inc in the third quarter,...
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PayPal sets new world record: Most money raised online for charity in 24 hours
PayPal has announced that it has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the most money raised online for charity in 24 hours, following a successful campaign in December for #GivingTuesday. It...
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PayPal extends digital wallet reach with Vodafone and America Movil partnerships
PayPal wants to us to celebrate the notion of “New Money,” whereby technology reimagines how we can safely and affordably manage, move, and spend our cash. At this year’s Mobile World Congress, the...
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PayPal to discontinue Amazon Fire, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone apps on June 30
PayPal has opted to no longer support Windows Phone, Amazon Fire, or BlackBerry devices, announcing that it will discontinue support for these platforms starting June 30. The company explained that...
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PayPal’s mobile app gets a ‘donate’ button, making it easier to give to charity
PayPal believes it has made it easier to give back with a revised mobile app that now includes a dedicated “donate” button. A press of this button starts a process whereby you can give to any of the...
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PayPal and Visa kiss and make up, form strategic partnership
PayPal announced today that it is teaming up with Visa in a move designed to open up its payment processing service and Venmo offering to more people. This strategic partnership is geared towards...
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PayPal’s One Touch platform used by 36 million consumers and 5 million merchants
Seventeen years ago, PayPal was founded as a way for people to conduct financial transactions on the internet. Since then, the payment processing company has explored how it can expand its impact, not...
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PayPal integrates with money transfer service Xoom, 15 months after buying it
International money transfer service Xoom has announced features and integrations designed to do what it was meant to do: exchange money overseas. On Thursday, the company said that it has added a...
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PayPal: Nearly 1/3 of Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping was done on mobile
With the official start of the holiday shopping season behind us, the time has come to see what damage we have done to our checkbooks. Many in the commerce space have already come out with their own...
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PayPal now lets you send designer cards when gifting money this holiday season
PayPal is making another effort to show that if you’re giving money as a gift this year for the holidays, you should consider the online payment processing service. To enhance its appeal, the company...
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PayPal saw nearly $1 billion in charitable donations over the holidays
PayPal has tallied up all the charitable donations it processed during the recent holiday season. The online payment processing company announced that 8 million PayPal users from 181 countries donated...
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Google’s Android Pay now works with PayPal
Google is adding a new way to let you purchase goods and services through Android Pay. On Tuesday, the company announced a new partnership that lets consumers use PayPal as a payment method, be it...
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