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  • May 6, 2014

    Last Wednesday, our mobile engineering team at Venmo attended F8, Facebook’s developer conference. At some point during the kick-off, Mark Zuckerberg stood on stage with the famous phrase...

  • Jan 7, 2014

    Our mission at Venmo is to connect the world and empower people through payments. We love to see users connect when they add personal notes to each payment and share with friends, and in 2014 we...

  • Nov 4, 2013

    Simon hails from the sweetest place on earth: Hershey, Pennsylvania. After graduating from the University of Rochester last spring, he spent the summer at Hacker School. Simon's a big fan of fried...

  • Oct 31, 2013

    Thomas is a Hacker School (Winter 2013) alum. He's a contributor to Ember.js and various other open source JavaScript projects. He cares deeply about build tools and foundations for creating web...

  • Oct 15, 2013

    Green lights make engineers (and users!) happy. Unfortunately failure is always lurking, especially when your user base grows at the exciting (and sometimes frightening!) rate Venmo’s does....

  • Sep 19, 2013

    We’ve launched a new version of Venmo, totally redesigned for iOS 7. You can download it on the App Store. Yesterday welcomed iOS 7 onto our iPhones and brought with it a radically new...

  • Mar 4, 2013

    Here at Venmo, part of paying your friends and family back through our app is sharing the experience through payment notes. We decided to take a look at these notes across our user base and see...

  • Nov 9, 2011

    We have released integration with the iPhone’s personal assistant Siri. Simply ask her to pay and charge your friends. Here are some examples of how it works: “Tell Venmo to charge Alan...

  • Oct 12, 2011

    At eBay Inc.’s Innovate Developer Conference 2011, PayPal and X.commerce, the world’s first open commerce ecosystem, today introduced PayPal Access, a new trusted commerce identity system that...

  • Aug 11, 2011

    eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) today announced it completed its previously announced acquisition of Zong, a leading provider of payments through mobile carrier billing. In accordance with the terms of...

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