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News Amazon.com unveiled on Tuesday a new online-payment service it will offer to other online merchants - a move that puts it in direct competition with eBay's PayPal and Google's Google checkout. However, as a competitor of PayPal, it's unlikely that... [30 Jul 2008]
Start-ups try to cut slice of Google pie
News With this financing, the company has raised a total of $22.5m in the last year, including money from private investors former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller and Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and managing partner of the Founders Fund. [30 Jul 2008]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News PayPal is stepping up its battle against phishing with new technology and by collaborating with others in the industry. Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security... [11 Apr 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Confectionery company Mars recently launched a Facebook app allowing users to buy chocolate snacks for friends using a combination of PayPal and mobile phone vouchers. Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications for social networking site... [14 Mar 2008]
Police backs calls for e-crime unit
News Gareth Griffiths, head of UK risk management for online payment service PayPal said a dedicated unit would help his company tackle the increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks that cost it millions every year. [12 Mar 2008]
Facebook goes all chocolaty
News Facebook users add the application to their profile then choose the gift - such as a Mars bar - and the friend they want to send it to before paying using their PayPal account. You can now send your Facebook friends chocolaty gifts which they can... [14 Feb 2008]
Online shoppers think plastic is fantastic for Xmas
News European online shoppers will prefer to use credit cards rather than debit cards or PayPal when buying their Christmas presents this year. According to a survey of 2,500 consumers across France, Germany and the UK conducted by online behaviour... [14 Nov 2007]
BT Tradespace spruces up its search
News The free service, which launched in April, is already linked to the online payment service PayPal but its upcoming evolution will make the search capabilities on the site more powerful. BT Tradespace, the service designed to help small businesses... [31 Oct 2007]
Online cash payments on the cards?
News New Look is one of the first retailers to include PayPal as a payment option, which Shaun Wills, business and strategy director at New Look, says will be useful for young shoppers who want to use the cash held in a PayPal account to pay for goods... [22 Oct 2007]
Yahoo! cracks down on eBay phishers
News is upgrading its Mail system with DomainKeys technology, to block phishing spam and other fraudulent emails that look like they come from eBay and PayPal but don't. Yahoo! The DomainKeys system works by verifying the domain of the sender of the... [04 Oct 2007]
eBay takes $900m hit for Skype buy
News There were grand plans to integrate eBay's PayPal payment system with Skype's VoIP network. Scott Devitt, a managing director at investment company Stifel Nicolaus, said he also sees Skype and eBay leveraging the mobile platform in the payment... [02 Oct 2007]
March away from cheques continues apace
News I'd rather they use PayPal. Transport for London (TfL) has joined an increasingly long list of UK organisations no longer accepting cheques as a form of payment. Word emerged this week that the capital's body for public transport and supermarket... [22 Jun 2007]
Junked: Is this the end of spam and spoof email?
News s mail servers can automatically check PayPal's internet domain name listing to verify that the digital signature is valid and the message truly originated at Paypal.com. If the signature doesn't check out, the message is probably spam - or a... [23 May 2007]
Google wants your money
News Search engine leader Google has launched its payment service in the UK, lining itself up against established players such as eBay's PayPal. The service, which launched in the US last summer and is called Google Checkout, works with its search... [13 Apr 2007]
Looks are good enough security for most web shoppers
News Davies said that 300 organisations have already signed up to EVSSL, including eBay and PayPal. Look and brand are enough security assurance for the majority of online shoppers, with most not caring whether a site is encrypted. [22 Mar 2007]
