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Google Wallet Deposits Itself Into Your Gmail

Meghan Wolff — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:39:17 +0000

Right now, I owe my best friend $25 for a They Might Be Giants concert ticket and $27 for a Magic the Gathering pre-release tournament, my boyfriend $40 because I had to order a new debit card and destroy my old one after someone used it to spend $500 at Walmart.com, and my mom $300 […]

What Tech Will Your Grandkids Not Recognize?

Mordechai Osdoby — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:00:53 +0000

Back in November, Techcitement talked about how much technology has changed and how much the 10 and under set have acclimated to this new tech as the baseline norm. Pop culture has plenty of references to tech that existed for kids in the 80s and 90s, leading parents to have to explain things to confused […]

PayPal Gets A Facelift

Paul Hurwitz — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:30:41 +0000

PayPal has long been the standard in sending money electronically between two people. The e-commerce business has also been a stalwart in the SMB website market for accepting credit cards, and PayPal makes it easy for non-profits to accept donations from members. However, PayPal’s user interface has been the same for years and the company […]

PayPal Partners With Retailers To Pay By Phone

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:42:36 +0000

Chief Executive of EBay John Donahoe and Chief Financial Officer Bob Swan promised, earlier this year, to strike deals with twenty brick and mortar merchants allowing customers to pay via PayPal using their cellphones. Today, the two men completed their first round of fifteen such agreements, including Advance Auto Parts, American Eagle Outfitters, Jamba Juice, […]

PayPal Here Takes Shape As Square Competitor

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:32:29 +0000

Not to be outdone by startup company Square, Inc.’s popular credit card processing service for the masses, PayPal introduces PayPal Here. The new service, announced just last week, reports over 1,000 new signups per hour. Unlike Square’s service, which requires a plastic cube-shaped dongle to swipe credit cards through (with an option of manually keying […]

PayPal Says Smash Your Stuff For Your Money Back

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:00:49 +0000

According to Regretsy, the seller of an antique French violin on eBay is now out both the instrument and the $2,500 she received for the initial sale. Erica claims she sold the pre-WWII era French violin to a buyer in Canada, who then disputed the authenticity of the instrument. As would be understandable under the […]

Segues: An Empty Wallet Is A Full Wallet?

Justin Davis — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:31:06 +0000

Each Segues column starts with something tech-related before quickly branching out from there into a tangentially related thread. These articles are born from my thought and speech patterns that regularly contain quickfire transitions. For one of my birthdays, a friend made me a crown that said “King of the Segues.” Actually, it said “King of […]