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PayPal to Drop Purchase Protection for Crowdfunding Projects
Believe it or not, that's a good thing for crowdfunding.
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Building a Business
PayPal Backs Acorns, an Investment App for Millennials
Acorns is a year-old app that is designed to get people started by making small automated investments from a bank account.
By Leena Rao
Building a Business
PayPal Co-Founder’s Newest Startup Raises $100 Million to Reinvent Credit
Affirm is rethinking the way shoppers -- particularly millennials -- borrow money by letting them obtain a micro-loan at a point of sale instead of using a credit card.
By Leena Rao
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PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan to Protest Transgender Bathroom Law
'The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal's mission and culture,' CEO says.
By Reuters
Business Accounting
Startup Founder Claims PayPal Froze $20,000 in Funds, Then Offered Him a Business Loan
'Paypal causes a cash-flow crisis and then offers to fix it,' writes Casey Rosengren, founder of Hacker Paradise.
By Geoff Weiss
Business News
Apple May Launch a Venmo Competitor
Square, Facebook and Google have also entered the peer-to-peer payments space.
By Laura Entis
Business News
Businesses Can Soon Accept Payments Through Venmo
The move marks a major step in the popular app's evolution.
By Leena Rao
Business News
An Emotional Elon Musk Admits He’s Only ‘Tried’ to Take Two Weeks Off in Past 12 Years
Saving our species is exhausting. It's time for a break.
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PayPal Makes Its First Acquisition Post eBay Split
The digital payments company bought mobile commerce startup Modest.
By Leena Rao
Business News
PayPal Valued at About $52 Billion in Market Return
The ecommerce company is expected to build partnerships with rivals and try to seize market share from startups.
By Reuters
Business News
What’s Left for eBay After the PayPal Breakup?
For the ecommerce company, life could get lonely in a hurry.
By Ari Levy
Building a Business
10 CEOs Who Are Disrupting Finance With Technology
Visionaries are solving the problems people and small businesses have borrowing the money they need and managing the money they have.
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Why Moving Your Startup Offshore Can Quadruple the Length of Your ‘Runway’
Southeast Asia? Eastern Europe? Australia? There's a lot of money to be saved by packing your bags.
Business News
Elon Musk’s Ex-Wife Justine Musk on What She Learned Living With an Extreme Entrepreneurial Success
Justine Musk reveals what she observed, from her courtside seat, about those destined for great success.
Building a Business
Why Billionaire Investor Reid Hoffman Is Betting Big on Bitcoin
The LinkedIn co-founder's investments in Facebook, Airbnb and Dropbox more than paid off. Will Silicon Valley's 'startup whisperer' be on the money about Bitcoin, too?
Business News
PayPal, eBay to Stay Interdependent for Five Years After Split
The two firms agreed that eBay would not reduce the volume of transactions it channels through PayPal.
By Reuters
Building a Business
PayPal to Pay $7.7 Million in Violations
The electronic payments firm agreed to settle charges by the U.S. Treasury Department that it violated numerous sanctions programs against several countries.
By Reuters
Business News
Facebook’s Foray Into Payments: Should PayPal be Worried?
Maybe not but the move suggests a larger strategy.
By Leena Rao
Business News
EBay’s Breakup Plans May Open Door for Ecommerce Deals
Splitting into three different companies could accommodate would-be suitors, signaling a potential merger fight after the breakup.
By Reuters
Business News
4 Reasons Why Your App Should Jump on the Apple Pay Bandwagon
Retooling your app to accept Apple Pay is worthwhile for the enhanced security and convenience, both of which customers demand.
Building a Business
PayPal Partners With Microsoft to Bring Its Card Reader to Windows Devices
The ecommerce company also announced that its reader will be EMV-compliant by this summer.
By Laura Entis
Business News
Massive Layoffs Are Reportedly Brewing at eBay Ahead of PayPal Spinoff
Plans are in the works to shed as much as 10 percent of eBay's workforce.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
How Mobile Payment Apps Are Energizing Businesses That Live On Cash Flow
Instant payment can free small businesses from the worry of unpaid invoices, making it likelier more will thrive.
By Sam Madden
Building a Business
PayPal’s Job Recruiting Secret: Hackathons
'Every industry is being disrupted by software, and so demand for software talent, engineering talent, has just been growing up,' PayPal's CTO says.
Buying a Franchise
Burger King Posts Strong U.S. Sales Growth as McDonald’s Flounders
The Whopper maker is looking to new frontiers, introducing mobile payments and making a push into India.
By Kate Taylor
Business News
Apple Pay Officially Arrives Monday, Oct. 20
The new payments paradigm has been billed as a potential credit-card killer.
By Geoff Weiss