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Facebook is testing a way to make paying with a credit card easier, but it works with PayPal, not against it as AllThingsD wrote. The feature pre-fills credit card and billing info for making easier purchases through PayPal, Stripe, Braintree or other payment processors in third-party mobile apps. It’s not a payment processor itself, but Continue Reading →

Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX, unveiled on Monday the first design for his Hyperloop transit system. Based on his vision and what he tells Bloomberg Businessweek, the new form of transportation would be a solar-powered, city-to-city elevated transit system. Passengers on embark on this 800 miles per hour ride through a Continue Reading →

Could we travel from New York City to Los Angeles in 45 minutes? If Elon Musk has his way, we will. Musk, one of the founders behind PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has his sights set on extreme high-speed travel. Imagine the old-school tubes at your bank that whisk your deposit away to the teller Continue Reading →

eBay has announced a new iOS app called eBay Exact that lets you buy customizable 3D-printed merchandise on the go. You can download the new addition now directly from Apple’s App Store. The products in question are available from three leading 3D printing companies, according to eBay: Brooklyn-based MakerBot, France-based Sculpteo, and Toronto, Canada-based Hot Continue Reading →

We might not be ready for commercial space travel, let alone colonization of alien planets, but that hasn’t stopped PayPal from planning for that inevitable future. PayPal Galactic is a new form of mobile payments, which PayPal hopes will dominate the extraterrestrial payments market. It may seem like a goofy marketing ploy, but last week’s Continue Reading →

I just got an e-mail from Ubisoft, which found that “one of [its] Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorized access to some of [its] online systems,” and that even though the company “instantly took steps to close off this access, investigate the incident and begin restoring the integrity of any compromised systems,” it quickly Continue Reading →

For the most part, commercial space travel is still a few years off, and any plans for space settlements still seem like the dreams of sci-fi enthusiasts. But it’s never too early to start planning, right? Elon Musk sure thinks so. And PayPal apparently does, too. Or at least the eBay-owned company is pretending it Continue Reading →

Square — a company best known for the small, white plastic cube that can read credit cards when plugged into a smartphone or tablet — is taking on the likes of Etsy, Amazon, and eBay with the launch of its own online marketplace called Square Market. The expansion from mobile payments to online retail might Continue Reading →

A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website. Robert Kugler said he notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19. He said he was informed by email that because he is under 18 years old, he did not qualify for its Bug Bounty Program. He Continue Reading →

Google will retire its Checkout payment processing tool on Nov. 20, and warned retailers they will need to move to a different payment processing platform. Checkout, which launched in 2006, was merged with Wallet, which is a mobile payments tool, last November. The product was aimed at taking on eBay’s PayPal service, which dominates Web-based Continue Reading →