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• PayPal wants to give you a debit and ATM card

  PayPal is looking to round its digital wallet service with the introduction of debit cards that you can use to make payments ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Facebook Messenger teams up with PayPal for payments

  Facebook users are getting a new way to pay eachother with Messenger. Well, actually an old one - starting today, people in the US will be able to pay eachother using PayPal. To set up PayPal, just initiate a payment like you normally would, by tapping the '+' button and then selecting ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Wordpress.com's new Paypal integration makes it easier for bloggers to sell stuff online

  Selling goods and services on Wordpress.com just got a lot easier. Yesterday, Automattic announced the launch of a Simple Payment button that allows users of the hosted blog/site/CMS service to accept Paypal payments in just a few clicks. The feature is currently available ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• FBI says ISIS smuggled funds to US using eBay and PayPal

  An FBI affidavit alleges that the Islamic State used everyone’s favorite digital auction house to transfer cash to one of its US-based agents. The agent was disguising himself as a printer salesman -- he'd pretend to sell a printer, only to receive payment from IS via eBay and ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Skype now lets you send money via PayPal

  Skype's recent redesign may be the source of much divisiveness, but that isn't stopping Microsoft from adding new features. Starting today, you can now send money via PayPal right from your conversations. It's a shot across the bow to Facebook, which has long support payments via ...

  • Napier Lopez

• PayPal takes Pandora to court over its big blue P

  PayPal filed a trademark infringement suit against Pandora on Friday, claiming that the radio app's blue P logo is "unlawfully similar" to PayPal's own blue double-P icon. Pandora debuted its new sans-serif logo in October of last year as part of an overall company rebrand. Apparently ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• TNW Conference is teaming up with PayPal and Glownet to go cashless

  Since TNW Conference’s inception, we’ve been using the trusted tokens found at festivals and events the world over: pay a cashier or machine some (a lot of) money, get handed some plastic tokens, spend some of aforementioned plastic tokens, come home to discover you still have ...

  • Matthew Elworthy

• Twitch takes PayPal and others to court over ambitious spambot

  Twitch is on the warpath as a spambot has decimated almost 1,000 channels with disturbing chat messages. Now it's taking multiple companies, including PayPal and Whois, to court to try and stop the spammer. The petition, filed in British Columbia's Supreme Court, puts PayPal, Whois, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• PayPal takes aim at banks with new acquisition

  Soon it may not be necessary to have a bank account to make payments with PayPal. PayPal and TIO Networks announced today that PayPal would be acquiring TIO for $233 million. With this acquisition, PayPal accesses TIO's 14 million customer accounts, and a network of agents, including ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Squarespace businesses can now accept PayPal

  Squarespace is giving businesses a new way to accept payments today: PayPal. It's a small but welcome update for small businesses on the platform. PayPal is often preferred by international users because it removes some of the verification hassles with standard payments methods, plus ...

  • Napier Lopez

• FYI: Facebook Messenger now supports PayPal transactions

  Starting today, users will be able to select PayPal for transactions on Messenger. Previously, Messenger only supported payments via debit card. Ironically, Messenger is adding support for PayPal before popular transaction app Venmo which is owned by PayPal. Messenger is ...

  • Napier Lopez

• PayPal won't refund Twitch troll's $50,000 in donations

  Many Twitch streamers are no stranger to large donations, but what if a random stranger dropped $11,500 on you after seeing ...

  • Bryan Clark