Tag: PAYPAL

Paypal just launched an interesting new service called Do Stuff For Money to let you offer money via PayPal to make a dare or request a service from a friend. There's an easy form to fill out to make your offer, which will then be posted on the site itself, and also sent to your friend via email or Facebook. If your friend (or target, I suppose) accepts the offer, you can then pay them via ...

What's the first thing you do after you layoff 10 percent of your workforce? You go on a buying spree, right? That's what eBay appears to be doing anyway. The company, which currently employs about 15,000 people plans to layoff about 1,000 full time workers as well as a number of temporary employees. At the same time, eBay has announced it will spend over $1.3 billion to buy two companies. First ...

There's no question that PayPal is one of the easiest ways to send and receive payments for items bought on eBay. But since the online auction site was founded, users were able to send checks or arrange payments via other methods if they were more convenient. Now all that's about to change. Starting in about a month, eBay will stop allowing users to send checks or money orders as payment for items ...

Online auction site eBay has two things that make it different from every other online store. First, it's a virtual bazaar where anyone can hawk their own goods rather than a traditional storefront where a company maintains and sells its own inventory. Second, as an auction site, there's a chance that buyers will get a real bargain, or that sellers will get more than an item is worth. For a while ...

PayPal provides a quick and easy way to pay for goods on eBay, Half.com, or other sites that accept the service. But what if you want to buy something from a store that doesn't accept PayPal, but don't feel like giving up your credit card information? Last year PayPal launched a service that lets you create a single-use credit card number that is linked to your PayPal account. And the company ...

PayPal recently issued a warning regarding the Safari web browser. And it's fairly dire: don't use it unless you want to be a victim of online fraud. Now that's coming out swinging. PayPal has left Safari out of its list of recommended browsers because it lacks two anti-phishing security features: Safari has no built-in phishing filter to warn users of suspicious sites Safari has no ...

Like buying things online but don't feel like giving out your credit card number to a gazillion different web stores? For a few years now PayPal has been the big name in one-stop checkouts. Just sign up for a PayPal account, link up your bank account or credit card number, and send and receive payment for your eBay auctions and buy stuff from participating retailers. But while most stores take ...

Sometimes you just need to look a bit outside the mainstream to find the t-shirt that captures your personality in print. Wal-mart and Target have t-shirts, but not like the ones we found at these online-only stores. This Balky t-shirt, which has a one-color screen of the infamously annoying character from the 80's sitcom Perfect Strangers, is available exclusively from retroduck.com, a web ...

Payments by cell phone? Its 2007, we should have had that by now! (as well as flying cars) Not to worry, Google is on it. Apparently the team in Mountain View California does have a patent describing how to make payments via cell phone by texting the sum to a processing server. Person to person transactions can also be made using cash by the integration of Google Checkout into the mix. As it ...

Freshbooks is on of a short list of companies invited to try out Amazon's Flexible Payment Service that competes with the likes of PayPal and Google's Checkout. Toronto based Freshbooks provides an online invoicing and time tracking application. With the integration of the new Amazon payment system, their list of payment options for customers grows to 12. This payment service not only gives a ...

Did they pay? Who still owes money? Where do I stuff all this cash while I wait for everyone to pay-up? Here are some questions you probably don't want to deal with but since you volunteered to be a group treasurer, team manager or money person, you're stuck with. PayItSquare might be of some help to people like you who are collecting and recording amounts of cash for a group. The beauty of it ...

Now Public is a news site dedicated to the ideals of citizen journalism. Now Public's mission is nothing short of being the world's largest news organization where "elites" don't set the stories but YOU, the average Joe/Josie does. To help you channel Brian Williams or Katie Couric, Now Public is teaming up with You Tube so you can associate You Tube video with the story you've written. ...

Yahoo and PayPal are working on their strategic alliance by offering a pretty little shopping cart icon next to Yahoo's sponsored search results. The new Yahoo shopping cart icons point searchers to merchants that accept PayPal Express Checkout as a payment method. This move looks strikingly similar to Google's Checkout feature whereby a shopping cart is placed below sponsored results that have a ...

Skype 3.2 beta is out, with a few new features: Send money with PayPal View your account from within the application Import contacts from more sources Use a video snapshot for your profile The biggest update is probably the ability to send money to other Skype users through PayPal. Skype can act as a contact list for sending money, a feature PayPal didn't previously have. If you send ...

Looking for a parking spot can prove tedious, time consuming, and extremely expensive, especially in a large city. ParkMatch intends to change all that. The site allows users to find and list parking locations. Through ParkMatch, parking spots can be rented out during the times you know that it won't be used. Parking owners simply determine the times in which the spot will be available. ...