Tag: PayPal

  • PayPal Credit

    I’ve just received an email from those fine people at PayPal. Apparently PayPal Credit, a new payment option, is now available. PayPal Credit is a new service that enables you to make the most of your PayPal account. It works like a virtual credit card and offers an instant decision and a paperless application process.…

  • New and emerging payments

    I keep using the description ‘new and emerging payments’. I think I need to change my words in some instances. Whilst updating account information I noticed that I have had a PayPal account since 2004. A further quick search and I found that PayPal was founded in 1998. Today PayPal revenue exceeds $5.6bn. Emerged and not new…

  • NCR and PayPal agreement makes sense

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    Most press releases and announcements fail to pass the ‘so what’ test. They might be important to the client company but they are often dull and uninteresting. Then along comes a release that tells of things that will really make a difference. And here is one of these gems: NCR Corporation and PayPal, Inc., today announced an agreement to…

  • PayPal, McDonald’s talk mobile payment

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    McDonald’s, the world’s biggest hamburger chain, is testing a mobile payment service featuring PayPal at 30 of its restaurants in France. Earlier this year, McDonald’s ran demonstrations of a broader PayPal mobile payment service at its franchisee conference in Orlando, Fla. via PayPal, McDonald’s talk mobile payment | The Columbus Dispatch.

  • PayPal unveils mobile payment system for small businesses

    And finally the obvious contender for Square payment processing: PayPal is targeting small businesses, service providers, and casual sellers on the move with its new PayPal Here service which allows vendors to process a variety of payments including checks and cards using their mobile phones. via PayPal Unveils Mobile Payment System for Small Businesses. I…

  • Boku, the new rival to PayPal?

    This should be interesting to follow: PayPal, the online payments company owned by eBay Inc, just got a new rival in the race to develop a mobile payment service that can be used in physical stores. Boku Inc, a big online mobile payments company backed by venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Benchmark Capital,…