Coolest Brands 2014: Social Money for the City Dweller
Venmo, a social person-to-person payments service, has become a verb. Members of New York’s improv comedy scene, accustomed to (small) ...
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Simple Teases New Lending Products
Simple, the banking startup, appears to be planning to launch lending products. Josh Reich, CEO of Simple, and Shamir Karkal, the company's ...
Venmo Marketing Goes Old School in New York
Photo: @tedp Venmo may have cutting-edge, person-to-person payments technology, but its latest marketing effort is decidedly old school. PayPal-owned Venmo closed ...
Simple Launches Realtime P2P Functionality — on PayPal’s Rails?
Simple launched realtime person-to-person (P2P) payments today, the company announced in a blogpost. The functionality currently only works online, but will ...
Square Is Becoming a PayPal Knockoff
It's getting harder and harder to tell PayPal and Square apart. San Francisco-based Square had reportedly been in the running to acquire ...
A Bad Week for Square?
Was this a really bad week for Square? Square's announcement that it had partnered with Intuit to share data between ...
PayPal Offers Small Business Loans (and Acquires Rival Braintree for $800 Million)
PayPal is no stranger to risk management -- taking on the risk for online transactions is why PayPal exists. The ...
Behind the Autofill News, a Full Reboot of Facebook’s Payments Strategy
Give Facebook your credit card information and the social network can make things easier for you -- and the merchant ...
Despite Presumed Deal, Braintree CEO Unloads on PayPal
PayPal’s acquisition of payments upstart Braintree appears in recent days to be more of a certainty. But that didn’t stop ...
If You Have $1 Billion, You Can Buy Braintree
In mid-July, a PayPal employee told Bank Innovation, off the record, that Braintree was "quietly being shopped around." It's not so ...
