Every day the noise about “mobile wallets” gets louder in this industry. It’s certainly a great catch phrase and makes for an easy headline, but what are we really talking about? A mobile wallet … a digital wallet … a cloud wallet …. or whatever you want to call it … is really just another way to store your money and pay for…

Today at the 2013 Future Insights conference in Las Vegas we’re unveiling yet another PayPal innovation that helps solve real customer pain points – in this case making it easier to shop online. My colleague John Lunn will present the latest version of our commerce identity system, Log In with PayPal (formerly known as PayPal Access) in a session…

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny inaugurated the new eBay Inc. international operations center in Dundalk, Ireland, in style on April 25, nodding to PayPal and eBay’s rapid growth in Europe and around the world. “It is with great pleasure that I open this state-of-the-art facility,” Kenny said. “It is testament to the skills available in…

In an effort to join PayPal technology innovation with the art of storytelling, PayPal has relaunched its corporate website. The newly revamped PayPal: Forward replaces the old PayPal blog and will feature stories from not only PayPal executives, but also technology and commerce advocates, business partners, retail leaders and everyday small business owners. Discussion topics will include…

eBay Inc. is off to a strong start this year, and Q1 results came out today. Revenue for the first quarter of 2013 rose 14 percent year over year to $3.7 billion compared to the same period of 2012. Net income on a GAAP basis was $677 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, and non-GAAP…

PayPal is boosting cross-border trade by connecting more and more consumers and merchants worldwide using pioneering technology, Rohan Mahadevan told an international audience last month in Singapore. Rohan, vice president of PayPal Asia, co-chaired a session on achieving entrepreneurial success at The Wall Street Journal’s “Unleashing Innovation” conference. He emphasized that PayPal is fostering an…

PayPal said Wednesday it was acquiring  Duff Research, a group of award-winning mobile app developers. Financial terms were not disclosed. Duff’s team of engineers, writes PayPal Chief Technology Officer James Barrese, will be  joining the PayPal technology team to help build creative and simple ways for PayPal’s customers to use the PayPal digital wallet. “As PayPal continues to be…

Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, PayPal made it easy to get food quickly at one of the busiest global conferences of the year. At two of MWC’s most popular restaurants, attendees were able to bypass the long lunch lines when they paid with PayPal, writes John Lunn, PayPal’s developer network global director, over at the official…

The full-scale rollout is being handled via Nihon PayPal KK, the joint venture company established last year by PayPal and SoftBank to market and distribute PayPal Here throughout Japan. “We’ve worked hard to be the first to make this type of simple, secure mobile payment solution widely available in Japan,” said Rohan Mahadevan, vice president,…

StubHub is set to become the first major ticketing company to brand a major sports facility with its name. The former Home Depot Center in Southern California, official home of the 2012 MLS Cup Champion LA Galaxy and intra-city rival Chivas USA, will be inaugurated as StubHub Center in June 2013. Managed by AEG Facilities,…