Bitcoin and the entire crypto space have had a spectacular year so far, and the 2021 bull run continues. Bitcoin, ethereum, and even meme coins like doge have climbed to all-time highs at various points throughout the year, and others are expected to continue to surge in the coming months. Increased interest from retail investors, …
Visa announced on Monday a new pilot program to test transaction settlements using cryptocurrency. The new payment trial will not actually impact end-users who operate debit cards from the crypto exchange platform Crypto.com. Users will be able to pay for goods without worrying about what happens in the background — the Crypto.com cards do support …
PayPal has never had a reputation for being a particularly upstanding organization to deal with, but its latest public misstep shows that there is nothing in this life or the next that can stop the company from tracking you down and wresting back your eBay profits from your cold, dead hands — and in this …
PayPal just confirmed that it’s buying Swedish payments startup iZettle for $2.2 billion in an all-cash transaction, which would make it PayPal’s biggest purchase ever. The company paid $890 million for Xoom a few years ago, and $800 million for Venmo back in 2013, when it still was a part of eBay. iZettle’s main business …
On Wednesday, PayPal was added as a new option for payments on the App Store, Apple Music, iTunes, iBooks and iCloud. Payment methods on iOS devices have been frustratingly limited for years, with users having to choose between paying with credit cards and gift cards, but now anyone with a PayPal account will be able …
Last October, Pandora decided that the brand was in need of a revamp. So, as tech companies are prone to do, the music streaming company rolled out a brand new logo. And, as tech companies are also prone to do, the new logo design was accompanied with a healthy dose of marketing jargon.
Phishing scams that use fake login pages to steal account usernames and passwords are nothing new. The trick for hackers is to fool customers into thinking that they’re following a legit link from a real company, and a new phishing scam is particularly good at that. A raft of fake PayPal support accounts have popped …
You might want to think twice before you find another crowdfunding project with your PayPal account. Starting on June 25th, PayPal is updating its User Agreement to remove Purchase Protection on crowdfunding projects, which means dissatisfied Kickstarter and Indiegogo contributors will no longer be able to dispute charges.
Just when we thought that Netflix is about to lose the first fight against VPN service providers that help international users access any Netflix movie catalog (especially the U.S. one), we learn that the popular streaming service is getting some unexpected help from another popular online service: PayPal. The payments company announced that it’s cutting …
Think you’ve secured your PayPal account so that hackers can’t hijack it and steal money from your bank account? Well, guess again, as there are ways of getting into your account and PayPal doesn’t appear to have the means or policies to stop them. Well known cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs says he discovered these flaws after his own …
