PayPal goes down for almost an hour!
Wall Street Journal has reported that eBay owned online payment service PayPal went down for around an hour on Monday.
The report said that the problems started at around 10:30 AM Pacific Time. Most customers had regained access to the services in around four hours.
PayPal is one of [...]
PayPal opens up to third party developers
eBay owned financial service PayPal has announced their Adaptive Payments System which enables third party developers to use their APIs to create new tools and services.
PayPal announced this at the Platform Preview Event in San Jose, California.
The company said: “PayPal will be the first and only global payment service [...]
Amazon not accepting eBay Bill Me Later anymore?
Online reports are claiming that US based online store Amazon.com has stopped accepting eBay’s Bill Me Later service for payments.
Market analysts believe that Amazon waited for the end of the holiday season for blocking this rival payment method.
eBay had acquired Bill Me Later service last year. The deal [...]
Microsoft Live Search Cashback offering huge discounts
Microsoft is getting more aggressive with its Live Search Cashback offer.
The company is now offering discounts as high as 25% on items purchased from eBay
Users are required to search for products on the company’s Live Product search service to get these discounts.
eBay has been a Microsoft partner on [...]
EBay acquiring Bill Me Later and Danish classifieds sites
US based online auction service eBay has announced that they are now acquiring online payments site Bill Me Later and two Danish classifieds services.
The company would be paying $820 million in cash and $125 million in options to acquire Bill Me Later. They expect this deal to [...]
Amazon launches Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay
Online retailing giant Amazon has now entered into direct competition with both eBay PayPal and Google Checkout.
The company has launched two new payment services named: Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay.
Checkout by Amazon as per the company is their complete checkout solution. It has features like [...]
PayPal Secure Card service launched
PayPal is collaborating with MasterCard to launch a new service named PayPal Secure Card. It would enable their customers to make payments on Web sites that don’t accept PayPal directly.
This new software application would recognize when a user lands on a payment page on web store. It would then help the [...]
