PayPal and Venmo adding Tap to Pay on iPhone, Apple Pay for online purchases, Wallet app support
PayPal will soon be rolling out new ways that allow customers and merchants to better take advantage of Apple Pay, iPhone, and more. PayPal says it will soon be adopting Apple’s new Tap to Pay on iPhone feature, as well as adding support for Apple.....»»
PayPal to add Tap to Pay on iPhone, Apple Pay, and Wallet support
PayPal has announced that it will bring new Apple-centric ways of paying for those using PayPal and Venmo.Image Credit: PayPalThe announcement came as part of Paypal's third-quarter 2022 earnings results. Read more........»»
PayPal gets Passkey support on iPhone, iPad, Mac in U.S.
PayPal is enabling support for Passkeys, a new standard for authentication that will enable iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to log in to the payment service without needing a password.PayPal Passkey on an iPhoneAnnounced on Monday, support for Passkeys w.....»»
PayPal’s new Rewards feature adds Honey shopping discounts
PayPal has announced a new PayPal Rewards hub for its main app, which will fold in features from the rewards platform Honey that it acquired several years ago......»»
CyberArk appoints Peretz Regev as CPO
Peretz Regev brings more than 20 years of senior leadership and product engineering experience to CyberArk. Previously, Regev was vice president of Global Data Science and Engineering at PayPal. Regev also served as the general manager of PayPal Isra.....»»
Beware - that PayPal email could be a wallet-draining scam
Scammers started abusing legitimate services such as PayPal for criminal purposes......»»
Court Orders PayPal & Alipay to Freeze VPN Company’s Funds in Piracy Lawsuit
Court Orders PayPal & Alipay to Freeze VPN Company’s Funds in Piracy Lawsuit.....»»
PayPal-themed phishing kit allows complete identity theft
Sometimes phishers are just after your username and password, but other times they are after every scrap of sensitive information they can extract from you. To do that, they use tools like the phishing kit recently analyzed by Akamai researchers. By.....»»
‘Bungie Wants PayPal’s Help to Expose Cheaters’
Game developer Bungie is determined to win its legal battle with cheat seller AimJunkies.com. The company subpoenaed PayPal to obtain documents related to key figures and cheat-related transactions but AimJunkies say the request is too broad. The che.....»»
Under pressure from Apple Pay Later, PayPal improves its buy now pay later offerings
PayPal's improved Pay Monthly service will allow customers to split purchases up to $10,000 into monthly payments over as long as two years.Image Credit: Sagar SalvaThe expanded options were announced by PayPal shortly after Apple revealed its own fo.....»»
PayPal Lets Users Transfer Bitcoin and Ethereum To External Wallets
PayPal announced on Tuesday that the service now "supports the native transfer of cryptocurrencies between PayPal and other wallets and exchanges." Decrypt reports: The ability to conduct external transfers on PayPal's crypto platform, an image of wh.....»»
Layoffs and a Silicon Valley Sell-Off Create Shaky Low-Valued "Unicorn Zombies"
"After years of sky-high valuations, Silicon Valley is engulfed in its worst sell-off since the 2008 stock market crash," reports NBC News. On Twitter, VC David Sacks (a former PayPal executive) even says investor sentiment in Silicon Valley is the w.....»»
PayPal Helped Spur EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple Payments
PayPal helped spur a formal antitrust complaint against Apple and its iPhone payments system by raising concerns with the European Commission, Bloomberg reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. From the report: European regulators hit Ap.....»»
EU antitrust complaint against Apple Pay was supported by PayPal
The European Union shared a Statement of Objections earlier today in which it criticizes how Apple restricts the NFC technology on the iPhone to its own payments platform. Now a report from Bloomberg reveals that PayPal was one of the companies that.....»»
EU complaint against Apple Pay fueled by PayPal
Complaints made by PayPal may have been a key reason the EU launched a statement of objections against Apple on Monday.Image Credit: Sagar SalvaThe complaint claimed that Apple restricts competition in the mobile-wallets market, and that it is preven.....»»
PayPal Shuttering Its San Francisco Office
PayPal is shuttering its San Francisco office as it evaluates its global office footprint. TechCrunch reports: Multiple sources say the payments giant is closing its San Francisco office on 425 Market St. which housed its Xoom business unit. PayPal a.....»»
Peter Thiel Launches Tirade Against "Gerontocracy" Over Bitcoin
Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, has accused a "finance gerontocracy" including Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon of hindering bitcoin's progress. From a report: The outspoken libertarian tech investor described multibillionaire Buffett, the world.....»»
How to Eliminate the World"s Need for Passwords
The board members of the FIDO alliance include Amazon, Google, PayPal, RSA, and Apple and Microsoft (as well as Intel and Arm). It describes its mission as reducing the world's "over-reliance on passwords." Today Wired reports that the group thinks.....»»
PayPal enables Ukrainian accounts to send and receive money
PayPal said Thursday it is expanding its services for Ukrainian accounts and allowing them to send and receive money from friends and family......»»
PayPal ditches Russia over its unprovoked war with Ukraine
In the latest of an ever-growing number of companies making the same decision, PayPal shut down its services in Russia. The move was a direct reaction to Russia's unprovoked war with Ukraine. Ukraine's minister of digital transformation, Mykhailo Fed.....»»