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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 Setup FAQs
White Paper PayPal is a convenient and secure way to transfer money using the Internet. As such, PayPal is a viable alternative to having to open a merchant account, a credit card processing terminal, printer. Since PayPal was and continues to be one of the... [03 Jul 2008]
A Practical Approach to Managing Phishing
White Paper Surely only a few individuals, who have been living a life of seclusion on the French Riviera for the last few years, won't know what the crime of "phishing" is. Yet, according to Gartner estimates, 3.3% of the 124 million consumers who received... [21 May 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]
Phishing - Past, Present and Future
White Paper Recipients are directed to counterfeit and fraudulent websites that are exact duplicates of well known and respected companies such as eBay, PayPal or large banking institutions and prompted to enter account information. [24 Mar 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]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment This year even shadow home secretary David Davis will be joining the directors of the FBI, US Secret Service, Nato and the likes of PayPal, Lloyds TSB and Unilever to reflect on a shared problem that threatens the world's most advanced economies. [27 Feb 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]
Phishing - Don't Get Hooked: Practical Advice from PayPal
White Paper Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand, to hear host James Hilliard's interview with Mike Vergara, Director of Account Protections at PayPal, and Richard Wang, Director of Threat Research at Sophos, on the types of phishing... [12 Dec 2007]
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]
Paypal Hacks: Send Money to Anyone
It's a little-known fact that one can send money to anyone who has an email address: the person to whom one sends money doesn't need a PayPal account! Back in the days when PayPal was giving away $10 for each new account referred, some... [17 Oct 2007]
