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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