Google is to add functionality for transferring money to friends via Wallet and its most popular non-search service, Gmail. The concept should make moving money between people easier than ever. More...
People are apparently continuing to shop a lot online and via mobile devices well after Cyber Monday, as eBay and PayPal announced that Sunday, Dec. 2nd was their biggest mobile shopping day ever. More...
IBM has released a new infographic that shows, according to its data, online shopping for Black Friday 2012 increased by 20.7 percent compared to sales in 2011, thanks in part to mobile devices. More...
New data shows that Thanksgiving Day was a busy one for online retail stores, with one report claiming that traffic to retail websites increased by 71 percent compared to 2011. More...
Hackers identifying themselves as part of the Anonymous collective have admitted their guilt in an attack against PayPal, which the company alleges lost them £3.5 million during 2010. More...
After taking a hard line against BitTorrent and file-sharing sites, PayPal has moved onto Usenet service providers, freezing funds and stopping them accepting payments to their accounts. More...
WordPress has added functionality today, allowing bloggers across the world to pay using the digital Bitcoin currency while side-stepping issues such as PayPal being unavailable or limited. More...
Skype has dropped the ball on user privacy when it gave a Dutch 16-year old's personal information to a private security company without any legal obligation to do so. More...
After the government in Argentina passed a ruling to limit dependency on the US dollar, PayPal became the easiest method of converting. As a result, the functionality is to be pulled in Argentina. More...
PayPal has finally released an official app designed for Windows Phone-based devices, allowing users to send money from their bank account to others for free along with other features. More...
The new look, and long overdue PayPal website revamp is coming tomorrow, and screenshots of the website reveal the more modern, simplified design that should appease customers More...
Double Fine, which raised over $3 million via Kickstarter for its upcoming adventure game, has now launched a PayPal account to let other people contribute to the game's development. More...
Yahoo has finally picked a new CEO in the person of former PayPal president Scott Thompson. Thompson replaces Carol Bartz in the Yahoo CEO role who was unceremoniously fired in September. More...
Police have charged a man under the Computer Misuse Act. Peter David Gibson allegedly carried out hacks against a number of companies as part of hacking collective Anonymous and faces 10 years in jail More...
It appears that Hactivist group Anonymous have changed their ways of doing things and have now began to boycott PayPal. The group has called for its supporters to deactivate their PayPal accounts in protest of the... More...
Following today's news on the FBI raiding locations of possible members of the Anonymous hacker group in New York State, 16 people in the US have now been arrested in connection to alleged hack attacks... More...
Another use for Near-Field Communication (NFC) has been developed. It is another type of mobile payment system and uses an implementation of peer-to-peer technology. PayPal announced the new features today at the MobileBeat conference, according... More...
In a blog post by the PayPal president in which he announced that the company had 100 million active accounts, he also wrote that the company believes the public will no longer have to carry... More...
Google has apparently another legal problem on its hands. A lawsuit has been filed by PayPal, the fastest-growing unit at EBay. PayPal claims that Google misappropriated trade secrets from PayPal’s mobile payment business. The lawsuit... More...
While Sony's Playstation Network is still down, Microsoft's Xbox Live service for its Xbox 360 console is still up and running. Not only that but according to a leaked document that was posted up today... More...
Five males have been taken into custody this morning, after their attacks against websites like PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and Amazon. The massive online group called 'Anonymous' was successful in disrupting service to the websites, all... More...
It seems that Anonymous has suffered its first casualty in their cyber war on Wikileaks detractors. In the Netherlands, a 16 year old boy has been arrested for contributing to the Distributed Denial of Service... More...
In the midst of various DDOS attacks, Paypal has moved to release Wikileaks' funds from it's account, after it was suspended late last week for a breach of the sites Terms of Service. AllthingsD reports that... More...
One of the major gripes people have with the Android market is its insistence on using Google Checkout for paid transactions. Who wants yet another receptacle for your credit card information when there are already... More...
Rumors circulating the web over the weekend suggest payments platform PayPal could be working with Google in a bid to bring native support for payments over the service to Google's Android mobile operating system. The deal... More...
With Google I/O just around the corner, the Internet giant is expected to show off the progress of their app market and the staggering growth that it's seen. Last month alone, the Android Market had... More...
Just when you think eBay is done infuriating longtime users across the world, the auction site keeps cranking out the hits. You almost have to admire the steadfast dedication – that ability to bear 'mid... More...
PayPal, the San Jose company that revolutionized the way payments are made online, marks its 10th anniversary this year. It has officially launched a site PayPal-10 which features a number of interviews with PayPal... More...
Web payment firm Paypal has said it will block "unsafe browsers" from using its service as part of wider anti-phishing efforts. Customers will first be warned that a browser is unsafe but could then be... More...
Jagex Ltd, the developer of popular online MMORPG RuneScape, announced that Geoff Iddison, the former European CEO of PayPal, has joined the company as CEO. Iddison has extensive experience in leading international e-commerce-based businesses. Iddison... More...
Security firm F-Secure is warning of a PayPal phishing scam in circulation that seeks to steal your personal information. A fake website, which is designed to look like PayPal, was registered three weeks ago to... More...
eBay, PayPal and Yahoo have begun collaborating to keep Yahoo Mail customers safe from phishing by using Yahoo's Domain Keys technology in the U.S. to block e-mail messages that claim to come from eBay or... More...
Over the next few months, Ebay will be offering its PayPal users a new tool in the fight against phishers: a $5 security key. The security key is actually a small electronic device, designed to... More...
Internet security experts have discovered a new phishing scam that uses voice recordings to pilfer money from PayPal accounts. In the newest social engineering attack, identity thieves have spammed fake PayPal account compromise warnings to... More...
Updating a previous story, Paypal has found and fixed the URL which was re-directing traffic to a server in Korea, which is also in the process of shutting down that server. Online transaction outfit, PayPal... More...
A security flaw in the PayPal web site is being actively exploited by fraudsters to steal credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to PayPal users. The issue was reported to Netcraft today via... More...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has received approval from a federal court in San Jose, California, to ask PayPal to turn over your account information. The IRS is after anyone who... More...
EBay's online processing unit PayPal is rolling out a new service that allows customers in the U.S. and Canada to use mobile phones and other wireless devices to pay for products and services. The new... More...
Online payments company PayPal is working to fix a glitch that has been causing duplicate debit card withdrawals and deposits on some customer accounts since the beginning of September. The problem first... More...
The popular website Something Awful.com took matters into their own hands following the path of destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, by setting up a relief fund using PayPal as the middle-man. What happened next was... More...
According to Reuters Google is planning to offer an internet service similar to PayPal. Google's payment service is likely to allow users to pay for web purchases through Google and it's highly likely... More...
WholeSecurity, the leading provider of behavioral, on-demand endpoint security solutions, today introduced the Phish Report Network, the Internet industry's first worldwide anti-phishing aggregation service. Initial participants in the new business service include Microsoft, eBay, PayPal,... More...
Windows enthusiast site, MSFN.org, have highlighted a rather serious problem with PayPal's email removal feature. Most emails sent from corporations have "removal" links to comply with anti-spam legislation in the USA. On clicking... More...
Apple® and PayPal today announced that the iTunes® Music Store in the US will now accept PayPal for purchases of music downloads, audiobooks and gift certificates. Starting today, iTunes Music Store purchases can be funded... More...
PayPal wants to repay its users for dealing with its recent spate of sporadic outages by giving back a day's worth of fees. The online payment service, owned by eBay Inc., announced Wednesday that it... More...
Digital music service Napster announced Monday that customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada can now pay for tunes using PayPal. Napster users can choose to pay their monthly... More...
Sporadic outages at PayPal stretched into a fifth day on Tuesday, though the company late in the day reported that access had returned to normal for most users. Even as access appeared to be improving,... More...
Just a short piece of news that I came across and thought that it might interest the Neowinians who use PayPal's services regularly. Appearantly, PayPal is hoping to improve customers' protection standards by introducing a... More...
Borland Software will provide developers access to development tools for creating Web services applications for eBay and PayPal. Through a joint distribution agreement announced Wednesday, Borland will make software development kits designed... More...
PayPal on Monday made available a set of Web services APIs that will allow programmers and merchants to develop e-commerce applications linked to the company's online payment service. The company, a unit... More...