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PayPal Here: A direct — and triangular — competitor with Square (video)
PayPal is officially a direct competitor with Square. The payments company announced a new, triangular dongle today, which will process mobile payments for small businesses internationally. “One, this...
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How important is mobile to PayPal? Mobile VP David Marcus is now PayPal’s new...
If you need more evidence of how vitally important mobile payments have become to PayPal, take a look at the company’s new leader. David Marcus, previously PayPal’s vice president of mobile, has been...
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PayPal president makes house-call (or email) to smooth over customer dispute
Today, we offer you a happy story about getting your funds locked down in PayPal. No, seriously. According to All Things D, David Marcus, PayPal’s new president, is stepping in where his customers...
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Dylan’s Desk: The tech industry is losing touch with the reality of working life
PayPal president David Marcus announced layoffs in his division this week with a tone-deaf line about delighting customers and providing great experiences. Never mind the 325 employees and 120...
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PayPal president on Bitcoin: 'I don't think it is a currency'
PayPal president David Marcus thinks people are mistaken thinking Bitcoin is a currency. Marcus spoke at LeWeb in Paris today saying that until Bitcoin is regulated and more stable, it is not a...
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PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit
The president of PayPal has had it with employees who don’t enthusiastically use the company’s products. David Marcus sent a memo to employees working at PayPal’s San Jose, Calif., headquarters...
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Silicon Valley both slams and supports PayPal president
PayPal President David Marcus apparently caused quite a commotion among employees after chastising them in an email Monday for refusing to download the company’s app. Some people at the company’s San...
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PayPal president David Marcus heads to Facebook to focus on messaging
PayPal’s president is going to Facebook. David Marcus, who helped modernize the aging payments company, is jumping ship to run Facebook’s messaging business, Recode and others are reporting. “David is...
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eBay rumors say PayPal president David Marcus was fired; execs refute the claims
Update 6/19: Since the initial publication of this story, Marcus and eBay CEO John Donahoe have gone on the record to say that Marcus was not fired. We’ve updated the story as noted in italics below,...
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Confirmed: Facebook Messenger will eventually do payments
Now we have confirmation on why Facebook hired PayPal’s David Marcus: Payments and Messenger will eventually “overlap,” Zuckerberg said during today’s earnings call. When the company first announced it...
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Facebook now lets anyone around the world sign up for Messenger without an...
In June, Facebook announced that it no longer required Messenger users to have a Facebook account. This was only available to those in Canada, the United States, Peru, and Venezuela, however. But now,...
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Facebook updates Messenger with Message Requests, attempts to kill phone numbers
Facebook is starting to roll out a new way for people to contact you without needing your phone number. All they’ll need is your name and Facebook Messenger. As a consequence of such action, your...
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Facebook Messenger dives into soccer after its basketball game was played 1...
Facebook has added a new game to its Messenger app: soccer. After people played its inaugural basketball game more than 1 billion times in the past three months, the social networking company is...
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Facebook Messenger now has 300 million voice and video callers
Facebook has revealed that it now has over 300 million monthly active users of video and voice calling within its Messenger app, a growing sign of the service’s growing integration in our daily lives....
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Facebook Messenger chief says platform’s 34,000 chatbots are finally...
Six months after Facebook helped catalyze the use of chatbots by launching them in Messenger, the company says the platform’s bots have overcome a rough start and are now showing dramatic improvement....
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Facebook is testing suggested responses in its M assistant
Facebook Messenger rolled out a new feature today that’s powered by M, its AI-powered virtual assistant. The new feature, called M Suggestions, appears in chat conversations to suggest a response based...
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Ahead of F8, developers talk the future of bots on Facebook Messenger
Last year in the lead up to F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference, the buzz was that Facebook Messenger would spark a “chatbot revolution.” Bots, some believed, would fundamentally change commerce...
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Facebook turns to discovery, third-party chat extensions in latest Messenger...
Facebook’s Messenger platform was unveiled in 2015 at the company’s F8 conference with the goal of letting developers “build apps that help people connect.” Last year, it expanded to support chatbots,...
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Facebook builds natural language processing into Messenger
Facebook today launched Messenger Platform 2.1 with new features to give developers and brands more ways to reach potential customers, like built-in natural language processing, a payments SDK, and a...
View ArticlePhotos show the cultural difference between Black Hat and Defcon hacker events
Thousands of security professionals, hackers, federal agents and media descended on Las Vegas this week to attend the Black Hat and Defcon conferences. The two conferences exhibit the extremes of...
View ArticleFrom $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary
Ten years ago today, eBay announced an acquisition that might rank as one of the most successful Silicon Valley purchases ever. In fact, it sits third on Ranker’s list of smartest tech acquisitions....
View ArticlePayPal cans 445 workers to delight customers and get stronger (yeah, really)
Who starts an announcement that he’s tossing 445 people’s jobs into the meat grinder with this kind of introduction? “Delighting our customers every day with great, simple products and experiences is a...
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Why PayPal’s David Marcus is a boss but not a leader
GUEST: An internal email was recently leaked, wherein David Marcus, the president of PayPal, scolds his employees for not having “passion” or “gusto” for their jobs. I’d like to think that the tactic...
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Another lesson from David Marcus’ email: ‘Internal communication’ no longer...
GUEST: Last week, the president of PayPal sent an emotional memo to his team in San Jose, urging them to be more passionate or find new jobs. The very next day, that memo was leaked to the media, and...
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David Marcus leaves Coinbase board to focus on Facebook’s blockchain project
Three months after Facebook announced that it was starting a blockchain initiative, the executive in charge of the project stepped down from his position as a board member at Coinbase, fueling more...
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Caleta Gaming launches 38 HTML5 social casino games
Caleta Gaming has been busy. The company created its HTML5 game platform in the past year to publish games on the mobile web. And today, the London and Brazil-based company launched 38 social casino...
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PayPal announces Customer First, a sweeping plan to ‘catch more sharks and...
Two weeks ago, Indiegogo project GlassUp raised over $100,000 only to be told that PayPal would not release the funds — leaving the project in the tough circumstance of having led a successful...
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Stanford student reveals Facebook Messenger payment feature
A payment mechanism for Facebook Messenger appears to be getting closer. On Saturday, Stanford University computer science student Audrew Aude tweeted that he had found and played with a payment...
View ArticlePayPal aims to bring standards into the dirty world of carrier payments
Carrier payments — the ability to make mobile purchases that get charged directly to your cellular bill — are convenient for consumers, but for many merchants they can be a raw deal thanks to the big...
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Facebook in 2016: Live, fake, and half-baked
OPINION: Facebook didn’t flood 2016 with mind-blowing announcements, let’s be honest. In 2015, the company inched closer to making our world a much smaller place, thanks to the promotion of Free...
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