FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Planned PayPal Site Outage for April 19

To ensure that PayPal continues to offer the best possible products and services to our customers, we are planning a technology migration of our data center on Thursday, April 19, 2012, starting at approximately 10 p.m. PT. We expect it to last 45- 60 minutes. During this time, there will be a system-wide interruption to the PayPal service and our website. This means that customers will not be able to log into or use their PayPal accounts. Rest assured that, during this time, all funds will be secured as usual by PayPal’s powerful security and fraud protection.

Please check @askPayPal on Twitter, the PayPal Facebook page and The PayPal Blog for confirmation that the outage has concluded. Once the migration is complete, consumers and merchants will be up and running again, business as usual. This technology migration will set us up for some of the planned future product innovations that users will start to see over the next several months.

Cheers,
RBH

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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

eBay Inc. Acquires BillSAFE

eBay Inc. has acquired BillSAFE, a leading provider of payment upon invoice in Germany. The deal follows eBay Inc.’s acquisition of a minority stake in the company in October 2010. eBay Inc. now owns 100% of the outstanding shares of BillSAFE. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

From The PayPal Blog:
By combining BillSAFE with PayPal, which serves more than 15 million accounts in Germany, PayPal believes the addition of BILLSAFE will provide a comprehensive payment service for merchants and consumers…

BillSAFE works with merchants of all sizes in Germany, giving them a simple and secure way for payment upon invoice. Customers select their preferred item of choice, but only pay upon receiving the goods together with the invoice.

You can read all about it from Arnulf Keese, Managing Director, PayPal Germany over on The PayPal Blog.

Cheers,
RBH

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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

The @PayPal blog asks the question: “Will publishers back the new iPad?”

Corporate blogs – eBay Ink included – have a tendency to slip into “press release reformatting mode” if their editors aren’t careful (it’s something I admittedly struggle with every day) so it’s nice to see members of the leadership team talking about trends and timely questions over on the PayPal blog. For example, today Sam Shrauger, VP of Global Product Strategy for PayPal, speculated on whether or not publishers will back the new Apple iPad based on its new subscription plan for digital content.

Apple announced another “special event” to the media this morning. All the rumors point to unveiling the next generation iPad and I found myself wondering if Apple will have any publishers onstage to tout its new subscription plan for digital content. (More …)

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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

PayPal and Marktplaats.nl Extend Buyer Protection To Over 900 Categories

Robbert de Haan, Marketing Director of PayPal Benelux, used The PayPal blog to let folks know that they’ve expanded PayPal buyer protection to over 900 categories on Marktplaats.nl (the most popular classified site in the Netherlands and an eBay Inc company).

You can read his post here.

Cheers,
RBH

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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

PayPal Experiences Link Bug… and Blogs about it.

Scott Guilfoyle, PayPal’s senior vice president of platform services, is reporting a pretty significant but seemingly easily fixable bug on the PayPal blog this afternoon.

“Early this morning, we made a change to our site that caused some links to PayPal from Web sites such as eBay, merchant sites, blogs, forums, and others to be broken. Though you may receive an error message instead of the intended PayPal page, this does not in any way affect your ability to send and receive payments. You can still use PayPal to pay on eBay and at millions of merchant sites around the world. (More …)

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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Friday, July 25th, 2008

“Take off” Paying until after you Land

It has been a year since Northwest Airlines became the first airline to accept PayPal payment for online ticket purchases. It was announced today that Northwest is the first airline to accept PayPal Pay Later.

The service lets passengers buy tickets on Northwest’s Web site, and then defer payments for 90 days, and is available to customers even if they don’t have PayPal accounts.

The full press release is here.

Cheers,
RBH

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Planned PayPal Site Outage for April 19

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