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Study: Online Merchants Getting Serious about Mobile

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Bill Zielke here, senior director of merchant services. Forrester Research and Shop.org recently released findings from a study that shines some light onto how rapidly merchants are adopting mobile commerce strategies. The survey revealed that one in five companies currently have a fully-implemented mobile strategy in place. Even more telling, Forrester also found that... »

PayPal Mobile Express Checkout Makes it Easier for Consumers to Shop from their Phones

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Bill Zielke here, senior director on the merchant services team. For years, retailers have been talking about the importance of a multichannel strategy. But there’s never been a better time to get this up and running than today – because consumers are shopping not only offline and online but now through their phones. Mobile... »

PayPal Policy Updates

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Eddie Davis here, senior director of SMB Merchant Services. Starting in July, PayPal will be making a few changes to our user agreements, and we want to make sure that our merchants get the first word from us about some changes we’re making to our pricing. Our standard transaction fees remain unchanged for PayPal... »

Magento Uses PayPal X to Create Mobile Commerce Apps With Just a Few Clicks

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Osama here. I’m in Europe this week with Magento, the world’s leading open source e-commerce platform solution. Magento has just launched an amazing new mobile solution for their merchants that integrates PayPal’s mobile payments library to make it easy to create a feature rich mobile app with just a few clicks. Unlike other mobile commerce... »

In a world first, PayPal and Malaysia’s largest mobile operator team up to tackle mobile commerce

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Dear friends, I’m just back from Malaysia and am delighted to share with you that PayPal has announced a strategic partnership with Maxis Berhad (“Maxis”), the leading telecom operator in Malaysia with more than 12 million subscribers. Starting this summer, Maxis and PayPal will combine their expertise to bring the best-of-breed online and mobile payment... »

Alibaba.com’s AliExpress platform now accepts PayPal

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It’s Farhad Irani, VP of PayPal APAC. I’m delighted to let you know that PayPal and the Alibaba Group announced today that PayPal is now available on AliExpress.com. Alibaba is one of the most successful e-commerce platforms in Asia with 47 million registered users and AliExpress is Alibaba’s business-to-business platform that allows small business customers... »

A Look at e-Commerce Now and the Bright Future Ahead

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Hi all, Bill Zielke here, senior director on the Merchant Services team. Last month, Forrester Research and Javelin Strategy and Research issued reports on the state and future of e-commerce. Javelin found that, despite the economic downturn, domestic e-commerce grew at a staggering pace – nearly 11 percent from 2008 to 2009. Both reports also... »

Quick Tip for Merchants: Outsourced Warehousing

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Eddie Davis here, director of SMB Merchant Services, with a quick tip for SMB retailers. I often run into small business owners who are selling globally and who ask me about the best way to manage international shipping. While services like PayPal can easily take care of your payment processing, finding the right shipping... »

New Agreement with First National Bank will bring PayPal to South Africa

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Hi everybody. My name is Oded Zehavi, and I’m responsible for PayPal’s business in Israel and South Africa. Today, we announced an agreement with First National Bank (FNB) that will allow merchants in South Africa to accept PayPal payments – opening their businesses to our global customer base of 81 million active accounts in... »

Teaming up with Magento to Help Online Merchants

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Hi all, Osama here with the Platform team. Yesterday, we announced an expanded relationship with Magento to offer PayPal through Magento’s online shopping platform (see our press release ). This means that merchants and developers will be able to get up and running quicker with e-commerce and online payments, making it easier and more cost-effective for them... »