Last week we hosted the final BattleHack of the 2015 series in Tel Aviv, Israel. 25 teams came together to compete for the last spot at this year’s Final including the defending 2014 World...
This week, PayPal participated in SOCAP15, the world’s largest convening of innovators working to change the world for the better. In its eighth year, the event brought together thousands of...
Growing a small- or medium-sized business can be challenging. But there are easy steps you can take to ramp up your sales and reach. We’ve created a series of videos of some simple and...
Around the world, consumers’ relationship with credit is evolving before our eyes and reliance on general purpose credit cards is on the decline: 63 percent of US millennials do not even carry a...
Applying for a credit card has been a rite of passage to adulthood for as long as many can remember, but millennials are now bucking this tradition: 63 percent of them do not have a credit card...
Earlier this year we became a newly independent company, and the teams here at PayPal have worked tirelessly to reimagine payments, to help make it safer and more affordable for anyone to move and...
It's a fascinating time to be working in tech. Innovation is rapid fire - industries are being turned on their head - but so are companies themselves. Open floor plans are now commonplace,...
It’s not your imagination: Holiday shopping starts earlier every year. In fact, in the last three years, we’ve seen spikes in global holiday shopping starting as early as yesterday, September...
For more than two months, Runar Gudbjartsson had been working on the next version of PayPal’s mobile app. Now, in the cafeteria at the company’s headquarters, he’s showing off the fruits of...
We understand the challenges small businesses face ensuring that they are fully equipped to support customers in a world where they increasingly expect to be able to pay anywhere, anytime and any...
A wedding is in the works! Secure a venue. Choose a caterer. Pick a photographer. Book a DJ. Find a florist. So many wedding vendors to hire; so little time before telling each other "I do." It's...
In part 1 of “How Online Payments Really Work”, we focused on the three players – the merchant, the customer and the technology. In part 2, we’ll emphasize payments. As a business owner, it’
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) announced today that it received notice of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer by TRC Capital Corporation (TRC) to purchase...
It’s never too early to get your business ready for the upcoming holiday selling season. Planning ahead is the key to profitability. Here are some tips to help make sure you’re prepared when...
PayPal’s Chief Technology Officer James Barrese was recognized with the Gold Stevie® Award for “Tech Innovator of the Year” at the American Business Awards New Product and Tech banquet in...
Money between friends is awkward – whether you’re owed it or you’re the one in debt. A recent PayPal survey of 4,000 people in four countries even found that one-third of them had lost a...
We’re not going to sugar-coat it: choosing the right payment processing for your business might be the toughest thing you encounter setting up your business. This blog post series will help you...
Interested in selling your product overseas? Advantages abound: according to the International Trade Administration, businesses that export tend to see higher profits, better-paying jobs and...
In 2013, it was clear that Braintree’s early bet on mobile was paying off. Most of the best next-gen mobile commerce companies were using Braintree for payments. We launched industry-first...
We’ve all heard the buzz about shoppable social media, and many retailers are still trying to figure out how to leverage it. Just yesterday, PayPal hosted “Help for the Holidays: Your Guide to...
Selling cross-border has become a major moneymaker for corporations and small businesses alike – consumers buying from foreign countries spend twice as much as domestic shoppers. Additionally,...
Today, Macy’s, Inc. -- which includes Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s Backstage and Bloomingdale’s Outlet stores -- joined the millions of merchants globally that have PayPal enabled as a...
During Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival 2015, Lyft and PayPal collaborated to deliver a unique riding experience for concert goers that showcased both the ease of riding with Lyft and paying...
This year, the parents of 16,000 children in America will hear these words: “Your child has cancer.” One in five of those children will not survive. Despite treatments invented at St. Jude...
This holiday season, add a little social media cheer to your marketing mix! Shoppable media is an up and coming content marketing strategy that more and more social media platforms are developing...
Me Hi, my name is Thomas Vladeck. I’m in the middle of getting my MBA from Wharton and this summer I had a marketing analytics summer internship at Venmo. Prior to Wharton I did a variety of...
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), founded in 1949, is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. With...
We're excited to announce some fantastic updates to our blog! We’ve made it easier to get around the blog with updates to the navigation bar. Now you can view posts by topic: Engineering,...
Put away your boxing gloves -- there's no need to fight your friends to get your money back when you order the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight on Pay-Per-View this Saturday, May 2nd. HBO and...
By Cassidy Williams and Edmund Yan This is the second in a series of Venmo Developer Spotlights, where you can get insights on what life at Venmo is really like. If these posts tickle your fancy,...
By Cassidy Williams and Amanda Li This is the first in a series of Venmo Developer Spotlights, where you can get insights on what life at Venmo is really like. If these posts tickle your fancy,...
BattleHack London 2014, hosted at Level 39, saw fierce competition amongst stunning panoramic views of East London. For the second year running, BattleHack London welcomed 47 eager hacking teams...
Today, details of an Internet security protocol vulnerability were released, which many in the industry are calling “POODLE”. The vulnerability impacts a protocol called SSL 3.0, which was...
This week I am in Deauville, France, attending the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society’s Global Summit. Now in its 10th year, the Women’s Forum’s Global Summit is one of the world's...
This year PyLadies Austin hosted Austin’s first ever ladies focused Hackathon - Austin Ladies Hack - from the 15th to the 17th of August. Twenty-five women discussed and formed five teams on...
In the past several years, Toronto has become a feast for the senses, with plenty to see and taste – and the world has noticed. In fact, Vogue magazine just called West Queen West the...
Can you even remember back to a time when we had separation between our personal and professional lives online? Before the days of weekend and late night emails from your boss, before your eager...
Maximizes strategic focus and flexibility for eBay and PayPal to capitalize on respective growth opportunities in highly competitive, rapidly changing global commerce and payments markets...
September 30, 2014 Seasoned Payments and Technology Leader Joins PayPal as President; Will Become CEO of PayPal Following Planned Separation of Business into Independent, Publicly Traded Company...
This past weekend, we hosted our first ever BattleHack in Latin America and we were thoroughly impressed by the talent that emerged. BattleHack Mexico City brought out the vibrant festive colors...
Not all businesses are alike; nor are their billing needs. At PayPal we actively listen to customer feedback to understand the unique needs of businesses. We strive to continually improve our...
Coffee has been an integral part of our culture for some time now. It’s one of the first things we enjoy in the morning to wake us up and get the day started, and some people go as far as...
Last week, with events in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich and Brussels, Netflix celebrated its arrival in six new European countries, taking the total number of countries it now covers to 47....
Bitcoin has been big news this year, and for good reason. Although crypto-currencies have been around for some time, only Bitcoin has achieved significant scale. This new entrant in the world of...
We want people to feel empowered to start businesses from the ground-up. With PayPal Here, we’ve been helping many small businesses grow by enabling them to get paid anywhere – in their stores...
September is National Disaster Preparedness Month. To get involved and help you be prepared, we’ve teamed up with the Red Cross, the international humanitarian organization dedicated to...
BattleHack rolled into Singapore for Asia the first time at Le Danz, in the heart of the city’s art and heritage district. The event showcased a total of 29 hacks that featured ideas from a 3D...
PayPal is heading back out on the road with our SMB series Engage – an event aimed at connecting face-to-face with our merchants and working together to help grow their businesses. Our Engage...
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, we announced the general availability of One Touch™ mobile payments with PayPal, the industry’s first and only single touch payment experience on...
You may have seen some recent media reports that criminals are sending an unusually high number of fake or ‘spoof’ emails pretending to be from PayPal. The headlines can be concerning, so I...
At PayPal, we’re always working to build product experiences that simplify payments, and looking to collaborate with businesses that share our vision for making the checkout process more...
Shopping is fun, but forgetting your passwords online or your wallet when in-store isn’t. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to make it easier and more secure for you to shop and pay...
With the increased penetration of the Internet, payment companies have mushroomed under a myriad business structures. Nowadays they could be a bank, postal service, money transfer business, stored...
The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation donates musical instruments to under-funded music programs, empowering youngsters to be better students and inspiring creativity and expression through playing music.
Last month, we launched our first product integration with Braintree -- the v.zero SDK -- giving businesses across the U.S. a new foundation for accepting payments with Braintree. Businesses that...
People have been filling up their gas tanks the same tired way for a long time, before technologies existed that could speed up and simplify the process. But PayPal and MAPCO -- one of the largest...
The past few years have seen a shift in the way people think about workplace culture. While culture was once viewed as something that emerged organically without thought or intention, there is a...
Last year we published a white paper in collaboration with Network for Good titled “Why Mobile Matters: A Guide to the Mobile Web,” where we talked about the importance of mobile fundraising...
We are constantly working to make it easier for our customers to pay, and get paid, on any device. To that end, I’m excited to announce that we’ve fully refreshed the PayPal app for Windows...
As a small business owner, you never get tired of the “pinch me” moment. The instant you take a step back and say to yourself, “Wow – this is really happening!” Personally, this moment...
Technology advances through innovation. Innovation is catalyzed by challenging the status quo. And challenging the status quo requires diversity - different people from different walks of life...
Over the past few months, we’ve been updating our capabilities for businesses so that they can focus less on getting paid, and more on growing their business. In April, we completely redesigned...
With a passion for food (particularly cheese and bread) and a smart business plan, co-owners of The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, Heidi Gibson and Nate Pollack, embarked on a journey in 2009 to...
BattleHack Boston took place at Isobar this past weekend, and after 24 hours of stiff competition, 26 teams presented their hacks to our judges. The final hacks featured integrations of PayPal,...
The use of RFID wristbands for payments at Low Festival was a hit, but why stop there? This week saw the expansion of cashless, walletless, phoneless transactions at two Palladium Group luxury...
This weekend, BattleHack will touch down in Boston for the first time. Known for its tech-savvy residents, it’s no surprise that the city is a huge supporter of the local technology and...
The average human makes about 612 decisions a day and decision making is probably the most risky function undertaken by any executive. So how should executives make decisions strategically? asks...
It’s possible, but data security and other obstacles are getting in the way of a truly hyper-connected world. Mobile is playing a bigger role in the world, and as it does, it’s enabling some...
Hi there, my name is Oktay Dogramaci and I’m the head of our cause-related products team here at PayPal. We’re using PayPal innovations to build new ways for everyone to support the causes...
For just about a month, PayPal has been searching for a new leader of Global Product for PayPal. Product is the heartbeat of PayPal, so it was imperative that we found the best fit to run this...
Before you head out to enjoy your Memorial Day weekend, please stop a moment to think about those who have served in our armed forces. One way to show gratitude for their sacrifice is by donating...
PayPal and SOFTBANK announced today that the two companies plan to establish a joint venture company, “PayPal Japan”, to build a digital payments business that will drive the future of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) announced today that it has agreed to acquire Zong, a leading provider of payments through mobile carrier billing, for total consideration of approximately $240 million in...
We’re at SXSW with iPads and Cash - Look For Blue Venmo T-Shirts Just use the Venmo app for iPhone or Android to pay a friend at a location in Austin and share it with your friends to enter. The...
Today, PayPal opened the doors to its new customer service and operations center in Chandler, Ariz. The new facility, located at 3000 West One Payment Way, will employ up to 2,000 new employees...
PayPal, the leading online payments provider, today announced 150 new jobs at its European operations and customer service headquarters in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The new roles will support...
This video from Todays THV does a really nice job of explaining the fun ways to use Venmo with your friends. There are many times in life when you’re out with family or friends and you decide to...
CNN recently aired a great segment on your phone becoming your wallet. They showed off some of the newest and coolest payments apps, including Venmo. So, when you’re not using the Starbucks...
PayPal today announced Black Friday shopping results, showing a rise in online and mobile sales on what is traditionally the biggest shopping day for brick and mortar stores. The company reported...
PayPal is kicking off the holiday season with its exclusive promotions and increased purchase protections for customers around the world. This year’s special offers include free shipping and...
Making it really easy and really fun to spend money with your friends is our mission, and after a long week it’s always a pleasure to hear from users like Gina!
We’re in SF for a quick visit. Come say hi at our first SF Venmo user meetup! RSVP by charging me for your first drink of the evening:...
Checkout what we have been working on at Venmo!
@simplekitchen and @cafegrumpy, 2 of our favorite NYC merchants, were on Fox 5 today. Thanks Heather and Caroline!
Venmo Android App v1.15 Now Available in the Market Ted just gave a nice UI refresh to our Android App. Download it today if you’re on Android and let us know what you think!
We added a useful little SMS feature over the weekend that helps you find more info about someone before sending a payment: the About Command. To view details about any Venmo user, text “about...
Typographical and grammatical errors in correspondence are a great way to tell a recipient that you did not spend much effort or time composing your message. I have been keen to eliminate these...
We created a Venmo account, /VenmoCares, and anyone can donate by sending a text or web venmo payment. We’re then donating the money here: Unicef donations for Haiti These are the tweets we...
We’ve been working hard at listening to your feedback and adding new features that make Venmo easier to use. Rejoice— we’re getting closer to being able to completely eliminate cash from our...
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