Tag archive: Paypal

Designed by a couple recent Harvard grads, GymPact is a service that encourages people to make it into the gym by linking performance to money according to ABC News. Currently limited to iPhone owners, users sign up for the service through the GymPact application and decide how many days per week that they would like to exercise. The app allows the user to “check-in” to the gym similar to Foursquare and the minimum amount of time… Read More

Mentioned in the Wall Street Journal today, online payment provider Paypal and home improvement chain Home Depot are teaming up to bring a pilot test program of in-store Paypal payments at select Home Depot locations. While PayPal's new point-of-sale system is only being rolled out at five Home Depot locations to start, the company hopes to expand the program over the coming months. By introducing a way to pay with Paypal while inside a… Read More

PayPal  has long been a tent pole of e-commerce, a service integrated into nearly every online shopping experience. But that doesn’t mean it’s above the ire of the Internet. Lately something’s been amiss over at the site, and now complaints of shoddy customer service and poorly worded user policies are coming back to haunt it. First, in true holiday spirit, PayPal froze Regretsy’s charity campaign and a company representative dealt with the… Read More

It hasn't been a particularly good few weeks for the customer service industry. Last week it was the saga of Paul Christoforo, the man who would be friends with the mayor of Boston, bro, who decided that civility was for the weak and paid a hefty price when he picked on the wrong guy. Now it is PayPal. Again. PayPal is one of those services that has so dominated the space it exists in that it has inevitably become a source for users around… Read More

Yahoo has announced that it has named PayPal chief Scott Thompson as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective January 9, at which point interim CEO Tim Morse will return to his previous duties as Chief Financial Officer. Thompson has served as the president of eBay's PayPal division since January 2008; before that, he was a PayPal senior vice president and chief technology officer. In addition to the Yahoo CEO job, he'll also get… Read More

Whether you have loved ones thousands of miles away, or just revile the out-the-door holiday lines at the post office, it’s not always possible or practical to get a physical package to someone in time for Christmas. Rather than copping out with a cheesy virtual greeting card, dealing with arm-long customs forms to get your care package to Tajikistan, or spending twice to cost of your teddy bear to get it to Michigan overnight, may we suggest… Read More

The daily deals market may well be overcrowded, but that’s not stopping online payment giant PayPal from announcing its intention to get involved. The eBay-owned company plans to use information from its 103 million members to offer deals tailored to their buying habits straight to their mobile phone when, for example, they’re passing a particular store. It believes that offering a location-based service like this will give it an advantage over… Read More

For as big as the holiday shopping season is, it is generally complimented by a massive groundswell of charitable donations. It is the true spirit of the holidays, and one that defines our generosity as a people. Usually. In what is turning into one of the most bizarre stories of the holiday season, the small business and purveyors of some of the best WTF items available on the internet, Regretsy.com, was told by PayPal that its account had been… Read More

Launched earlier today, PayPal has launched a Facebook application that allows Facebook users to send money to other Facebook friends. Aptly called Send Money, users can attach a payment to an e-card along with a message to celebrate an event or simply send the money without a message. PayPal has included 22 different categories of e-card which includes major holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, occasions such as anniversaries and… Read More

Recounted in full detail at the Bygone Bureau blog, Eric Smith found himself devastated after his long-time girlfriend confessed to cheating and broke up with him. At the time, Smith was prepared to propose to his now ex-girlfriend and had even obtained her perfect image of an engagement ring. Specific to her description of the perfect ring, the diamond was shaded canary yellow and set on a white gold band. After the breakup, the engagement… Read More

Yesterday in an eBay earnings call, CEO John Donahoe said that PayPal will make its way in-store for the holiday shopping season. While details haven’t been released yet, it appears that the integration into brick-and-mortar retailers will include location-based deals, more flexible transactions, and improved inventory access. Earlier this month, PayPal introduced a pop-up shop in New York, self-titled PayPal’s Shopping Showcase. “Image a… Read More

It's a rare occasion, but eBay has made the news. The online commerce site, one of the Web's oldest and most stable, is holding its X.commerce conference in San Francisco Oct 12-14. The company is set to announce a new PayPal service called “PayPal Access” and possibly a partnership with Facebook at the conference, Reuters and Bloomberg report.  PayPal Access From what we understand, PayPal Access will turn the PayPal… Read More

PROTECT-IP (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property) supporters were on Capitol Hill yesterday discussing web sites trafficking in pirated and counterfeited products. One proponent of PROTECT-IP at the discussion was David Tognotti, General Counsel of Monster Cable. Tognotti indicated that “rogue Web sites” stole hundreds of millions in sales through selling counterfeit goods… Read More

At E3 this year, amid the massive stage show by Microsoft, one of the key points that it continually pushed was its Xbox dashboard, and the coming changes to it. We’ve already seen an upgrade to the ESPN app, and Hulu Plus is firmly entrenched as well. But there is plenty more to come, including new search features, more social network integration and more TV options. We know all that is coming, the only question is when. According to an… Read More

Titled Texas Takedown Thursday, the hacking group Anonymous released three gigabytes of personal data from various Texas law enforcement agencies. The majority of the departments that Anonymous hacked into were police departments in smaller Texas cities likely due to a reduced amount of security. Private information, such as social security numbers and cell phone numbers, were included in the data dump and the emails included correspondence… Read More