Tag: PAYPAL

Visa announced plans on Wednesday for a new personal payments service, with which U.S. customers can send or receive funds from any Visa credit, debit or prepaid bank account across the world. Much like with PayPal, customers with Visa accounts at participating banks will be able to swap money by entering the sixteen-digit account number, e-mail address or cell phone number associated with the ...

It's no secret that the U.S. government is going after WikiLeaks and its elusive founder Julian Assange. According to the Smoking Gun, however, federal authorities have been targeting its supporters, as well. Earlier this month, a group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers known as Anonymous began launching a series of coordinated cyber-attacks against companies that had severed ties with Julian Assange's ...

WikiLeaks and its creator Julian Assange have been under intense pressure from every side. The Swedish police want Assange in connection with a sexual assault charge, Amazon booted the site from its servers, the U.S. government (along with many others) have condemned the whistleblower site, and PayPal is preventing the WikiLeaks account from accepting donations. One group in particular seems ...

A group of pro-Wikileaks hackers has claimed responsibility for taking down MasterCard's website this morning, in an apparent retaliation against the company's decision to suspend payment operations to Julian Assange's notorious whistleblowing organization. The MasterCard site reportedly fell prey to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) campaign, which flooded the site with so many requests ...

A new update to the PayPal iPhone app now allows users to deposit money into their online accounts simply by taking a photo of a check. The new check-capture feature was first unveiled at TechCrunch Disrupt, and made its iTunes Store debut yesterday as a free update for the PayPal app. With the update, users will be able to deposit a check by using their iPhone to take photos of its front and ...

With the rise in mobile payment options, our kids probably won't know how to write a check or whose face appears on a $20 bill. MasterCard recently launched its 'MoneySend' app for BlackBerry devices. The app, which is also available for iPhone, lets users swap money with others, pay for informal products and services, and receive credit or debit card payments -- all for free. For example, you ...

We're pretty amazed that it took this long for PayPal to make a move, but the online payment company is finally going to let developers accept credit card payments from customers who don't have PayPal accounts. The new program, called Guest Payments, is particularly exciting for independent software developers who rely on PayPal for cheap and easy processing. PayPal has been appealing to ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... HTC's's much-hyped Evo 4G for Sprint officially arrives June 4th, with a $199 post-rebate price. Yesterday, Sprint revealed the model's default specs, which include a 1-gigahertz processor, an 8-megapixel camera, video chat capabilities and an 8-gigabyte SD card. The phone also awesomely lets users link up to eight other devices ...

When you take to eBay for your shopping needs, you know you're taking a certain amount of risk. You have faith in the description of the goods for sale, digital photos, and, more importantly, the seller's morals. Apparently, another risk you might be taking, if you react negatively to being burned by a seller, is that of being sued. Michael Steadman, a business owner in Florida, discovered this ...

In a bold attempt to broaden its financial reach, Facebook, the world's largest social network, has announced a new "strategic relationship" with PayPal that will allow companies to pay for ad space using the global e-banking service. In a press release issued yesterday, Facebook said that buying ads through PayPal would open the marketplace to more "small international companies," for whom "the ...

Want to lose weight while surfing the Web? Face it, you really can't. You can, however, totally distract yourself with a useless new time waster of a weight-loss site. It's simple: Flaab has you enter how much you want to lose and then put your money where your mouth is. If you don't manage to lose the weight, you promise to send the money to one of several options, including the UN World ...

Still rolling online using Internet Explorer 3.0, released almost 12 years ago? If so, you're doing the digital equivalent of walking around with your fly down, and it's well and truly time to upgrade. Don't take our word for it; take PayPal's. The online banking and payment service site is going to actively start blocking older, insecure browsers, including the once mighty IE 4.0, released way ...

Today a group of naked Canadians are considering a class action lawsuit against PayPal. The Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) -- an organization for Canadian nudists-- claims that PayPal suddenly cut off its services to them, refusing to process their magazine subscription payments after four years of business. The FCN are not the first business to get denied services for supposedly ...

After launching the Craigslist competitor Kijiji.com, eBay is now expanding its PayPal division with the launch of a mobile PayPal service. The new service is meant to augment -- not replace -- its service that already allows you to pay for goods and donate to charities via text message. The new mobile PayPal finally closes the loop on the mobile version of eBay. Shoppers have been able to ...