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Apple now allowing Paypal payment for Apple Store purchases (in Germany)

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd, 2013)

German users have noticed one other change from the Apple Store downtime last night, and that is that Apple will now accept Paypal payments through their Apple.com store. You could previously use Paypal as a payment service on the iTunes and Mac App Stores, but you can't (in most places) on the ...

Paypal security chief wants more fingerprints, fewer passwords in future iPhones

by Steven Sande (May 13th, 2013)

Speaking at an Interop keynote last week, Paypal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Barrett hinted that PINs and passwords may be going away when it comes to account security on smartphones. According to a post on CIO's website, Barrett serves as the president of the Fast Identity Online ...

Tweetwall rebuilt, new iPad app available

by John-Michael Bond (May 10th, 2013)

Tweetwall is a company that provides Twitter displays for events, allowing companies to show guests the live Twitter chatter about their events. Their clients have included CNN, Yahoo, Intel, PayPal, Microsoft, eBay, the Obama campaign and the Webby Awards. Now Tweetwall has launched a rebuilt ...

PayPal introducing new iOS SDK, APIs at SXSW

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2013)

PayPal has announced that it's bringing a new iOS SDK and some new API tools to SXSW next week. As you might expect, the API will allow apps to use PayPal's tools to integrate payment information directly rather than having to go through a separate authorization page. As you can see on the ...

Storific, PayPal to improve iPhone mobile payment

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 25th, 2012)

Mobile payment services are the next big thing for smartphone owners, with some analysts predicting that smartphone-based payments will become a $617 billion industry by 2016. Big name companies like PayPal are offering mobile payment solutions and working with app developers to get this ...

Google, PayPal, VeriFone and US carriers form Mobile Payments Committee without Apple, Square

by Steven Sande (Aug 13th, 2012)

With all of the talk about mobile payments via smartphone, it's surprising that this didn't happen earlier. A number of companies have banded together to form the Mobile Payments Committee as part of the overall Electronic Transactions Association, hoping to define the future of commercial ...

Examining an iTunes Store account hack

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 16th, 2012)

ZDNet has a long report on a recently hacked iTunes account that involved a linked PayPal account. We've seen an increase in the number of hacked iTunes accounts in which people's gift card balance or linked accounts have been mysteriously drained. This report, like many others, leaves us ...

AllThingsD looks at Paypal's new payments app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 30th, 2012)

AllThingsD reporter Lauren Goode spent some time shopping with both Pay with Square and PayPal's new mobile payment app. The two solutions are one of several up-and-coming mobile payment platforms competing for your virtual wallet. Overall, Goode concluded that paying with the PayPal app was ...

PayPal unveils Square competitor 'PayPal Here'

by Steven Sande (Mar 15th, 2012)

Small businesses that are using PayPal to process credit cards but considering the Square service are in luck -- PayPal today unveiled a competitor to Square called "PayPal Here". Like Square, the new service comes with a free card reader dongle. In this case, the card reader has been designed ...

PayPal may go after Square's mobile payments

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 13th, 2012)

PayPal is planning to take on Square with a new payment processing dongle, says a report from GigaOM. The dongle will supposedly tie into PayPal's already robust payment processing system and will be targeted towards small businesses. Smaller companies would be able to use this system to process ...

PayPal reportedly overcharging some customers for OS X Lion

by Chris Rawson (Jul 27th, 2011)

OS X Lion is only supposed to cost US$29.99 to install on any Macs associated with your iTunes account. Some Lion buyers who purchased it through PayPal are seeing charges way higher than thirty bucks, however. Multiple users have reported the issue on Apple's support forums, and Lion buyer John ...

iTunes fraud surge hits gift card balances, PayPal accounts

by Michael Rose (Jun 8th, 2011)

The frustration and questions surrounding iTunes App Store purchase fraud are (unfortunately) continuing. Over the past three weeks, we've received several first-hand reports of accounts with positive gift card balances being unexpectedly drained; often the charges are for in-app purchases for ...

Bank app lets you pay bills with iPhone camera

by Dana Franklin (Mar 20th, 2011)

Danske Bank just made it easier to spend money. Banking customers can now pay bills with nothing more than a photo and a tap, boosting the convenience of online payments. Danske Bank's official app is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices. Once installed, users simply launch ...

PayPal app has huge security flaw, update rushed to Apple

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 3rd, 2010)

You'd think by now we'd all be wary of open WiFi networks, and luckily that's the only way this could affect you, but if you use the PayPal app on an open network the Wall Street Journal is reporting a hacker could potentially nab your user account. According to the story, the app doesn't verify ...

Thousands stolen through iTunes/Paypal scam

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Aug 24th, 2010)

The BBC reports that a web scam is affecting a number of iTunes accounts that are linked to PayPal. Amounts ranging up to $4,700 were reported on Twitter and through Techcrunch as being stolen. All signs point to users falling for an online scam known as phishing. People will get e-mails that ...