PayPal has hired its first head of open source software: Danese Cooper, a veteran of such tech giants as Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Intel. In her new role, Cooper will assess the ways that PayPal is ...

PayPal on Monday made available a set of Web services APIs that will allow programmers and merchants to develop e-commerce applications linked to the company's online payment service. The company, a ...

Much of PayPal Inc.'s success has been attributed to its rigorous behind-the-scenes war against fraud. Now the online payments company is taking its battle to the computer desktop, where customers can ...

Online payment service PayPal says swapping Java for node.js on its servers is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying the creation of server-side software. PayPal has moved from ...

When Scott Thompson left Visa to take the CTO role at PayPal in 2005, the Web company’s data center surprised him. ‘Wait a minute,’ he recalls saying, ‘they run a payment system on Linux?’ “I was ...

The payments company is working to give its customers more choices, in hopes of becoming a bigger part of their financial lives. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, ...

QuickBooks Online and PayPal are now in sync, allowing small business owners to spend less time on data entry and more time on their customers. Intuit, the Mountain View, Calif.-based accounting ...

Exclusive: We’ve received more details on how PayPal will be scaling its in-store payments technology at major retailers. As we reported last week, PayPal is currently testing the mobile payments and ...

PayPal has a question for small business owners. Is your cash register holding you back? If a successful sale means scurrying back behind the counter to ring it up on an ancient register, it’s a sign ...

PayPal POS is free, but comes with transaction fees — and our research shows it won't deliver on every core POS feature. We may receive a commission from our partners if you click on a link to review ...