Posts Tagged with ‘PayPal’

Right when the blogosphere is heavily engaged in discussing rumors of eBay trying to sell StumbleUpon and even suggesting Skype may be the next candidate for the online auctioning giant to sell looking to minimize costs, eBay is announcing yet another acquisition - and rather a large one at that. The acquisition object is Bill Me Later, the service that helps online merchants decide if they should provide a transactional credit to any buyer right at the moment of purchase.
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Today Cisco has published results of a survey that the company conducted to see customers’ attitude towards different shopping and payment trends - both online and offline. Cisco surveyed more than 1,500 people to see their opinions on various factors in the changing commerce landscape and the results are definitely worth noting - both for real-life financial institutions like banks and for e-commerce companies.
The main result of the survey is that people in all age groups tend to increasingly trust [...]

While many of the Baby Boomers have traded protests for portfolios, there is another generation utilizing the latest and greatest in Web 2.0 technology to really affect change, and it's not just the microfinance lending companies like Kiva and FINCA.
Last year alone, $3 billion (USD) was invested in clean tech, in a total of 221 deals, a 43% increase over that market segment in 2006. Steve Newcomb, co-founder of Powerset, thinks that the growth in clean tech will grow exponentially, [...]

Web 2.0 is a term that means different things to different people, but there are some common characteristics that seem to characterize Web 2.0: alpha or beta status. A certain look and feel to sites. Social aspects to the application (for the most part). Building something that should enhance something else (Facebook apps, browser plug-ins). Some things are also common that also crop up, like frequent down-time, or lack of a business plan that ends up with a site shuttered, [...]

Revolution Money Exchange is trying to place itself as a viable alternative to money processing companies like PayPal and OboPay. One immediate advantage stands out right form the start - no fees if both parties are Money Exchange members. I can see that being a huge selling point in trying to woo business away from established sites that charge excessive fees, like PayPal.
Money Exchange assures customers that it fully insures its funds. It also lists a large number of [...]

From June 2004 to May 2005, an estimated 73 million US adults said they definitely, or think, received an average of more than 50 phishing e-mails in the past year. According to the FTC, email has quickly become the number one method of contact for scams. In August 2007 alone, PhishTank verified almost 9,000 phishing scams out of 12,490 submitted.
For these reasons and more three major websites have announced a "collaborative effort to better protect consumers against fraudulent e-mails and [...]

PayPal has been down for two days. TWO DAYS. The PayPal development blog gives Wednesday or THURSDAY as an estimate of when the service might be back to functioning normally: an estimate of 6 or 7 days without service, which includes bringing subscription payments to a halt, actually, a good percentage of payment transactions to a halt.
I'm sure that after such an extended outage, developers are quickly going to be looking for alternate payment methods. Having put their eggs in [...]

One can toss many companies into the circle of “Web platform providers.” Yahoo!. Microsoft (MSN). Google. They’re all part of the group. Many more are classifiable as such, too. Amazon is a platform provider. As is eBay. PayPal, existing for many years under the tutelage of eBay, even gets to hold the title itself. The list is expansive; the names mentioned here are only the most prominent of the bunch.
Why do we mention these companies? Because apparently a researcher by [...]

One of the most innovative and interesting startups from the Web 2.0 Expo is a comprehensive development environment called Bungee Connect from Bungee Labs. This on-demand web development tool allows for the building and deployment of a large number of APIs onto the Internet. The scope of this service is vast, but perhaps the most attractive aspect of the utility is that Web developers actually only pay for the service once their application is making money.
Essentially, Bungee Connect enables [...]