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An article from Ireland’s Radio Telefís Éireann (RTE) about the recent announcement to add 300 jobs to eBay/PayPal’s Dublin facility.
http://www.rte.ie/business/2006/0315/ebay.html

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A very interesting post from the Google blog :
“Many of you are probably already familiar with the Google Account. You use it to sign in and pay for a number of Google services, like Google Video and Google Earth. We’re now introducing similar functionality on Google Base.”

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This just in: recent graduates of my alma mater may now have a shot at launching a career in mobile payments without the need to leave the Portland metro area.
Maybe it’s because I’ve been a little too busy lately, and haven’t been following Scott’s blog closely enough, but today was the first time […]

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The Google Wallet product that everyone has been talking about over the past year will apparently be called “Gbuy”. Here’s a Wall Street Journal article discussing the product and how PayPal is viewing the threat from Google.

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When PayPal begins to sell Verisign’s Payflow Pro and Payflow Link products sometime this Spring, they’re going to face some interesting challenges. It’s hard enough to effectively communicate the difference between PayPal’s Website Payments Pro product, and PayPal Standard. Come Spring, if PayPal plans to offer the two Verisign products side by side with the […]

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A friend of mine recently asked me to have a chat with Chuck Groom, one of the creators of a new service called Billmonk. When Chuck first began to explain his business to me, I’ll admit, it took me a few minutes to decide if this was an original concept, or just PayPal’s “group […]

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An entity called MLON Ventures is acquiring a 60% stake in Paychest, the self-proclaimed “one of a kind 3rd party payment system”. If you’re not familiar with Paychest, you can review the product functionality they plan to offer, as well as their business strategy for competing with PayPal, on this impressive website.
Read the full […]

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An article from today’s New York Times about how SMB’s are using PayPal to handle their invoicing and online billing needs.

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I’m no Luddite, but I still think PayPal’s biggest competitor on Craigslist is cash. Receiving checks from strangers is too risky and PayPal does not elegantly support offline transactions. Apparently, the team at Text Pay Me made a similar observation, but they are hoping sms-based mobile payments could be the wave of the future. […]

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The concept of split payments is kind of like cc-ing someone in an email, but with a payment. Unlike being copied on an email that allows everyone to view the entire email, a split payment is divided into parts with no single recepient ever receiving the whole thing. The receiving fees due to PayPal would […]