PayPal tried to revamp its developer platform this spring for the new mobile commerce reality, but it realized it wasn’t moving fast enough. It decided to buy Braintree, which already had… Read more »
eBay(s EBAY) is buying Braintree, a Chicago-based payment platform for approximately $800 million in cash, the company announced this morning. “Braintree is a perfect fit with PayPal,” said eBay CEO John… Read more »
PayPal is close to finalizing a deal to acquire e-commerce engine Braintree, according to the Wall Street Journal. Braintree occupies the increasingly lucrative middle ground between small business payments and large… Read more »
The online payments firm has finally broken out of North America. However, in the time it’s taken to properly enter the European market, clone shop Rocket Internet has built a very… Read more »
Braintree’s cross-app payment service Venmo Touch will now be pre-integrated into Simple’s mobile app, eliminating the final logistical step in moving money from a bank account to an online merchant’s hands. Read more »
Chicago-based Braintree has seen its e-commerce transaction volume grow 25 percent in less than four months, largely due to overseas growth. It has added Minecraft-creator Mojang to its growing roster of clients. Read more »
Square has launched an under-the-radar payments service that lets customers transfer cash through email. It’s certainly not a new concept, but it’s another tool in Square’s arsenal as it delves deeper… Read more »
Braintree is ramping up its mobile presence thanks to its recent purchase of Venmo. Using the peer-to-peer payment technology, Braintree is creating an in-app customer identity network that can be used… Read more »
Six months after launching in Europe and Canada, one quarter of all of Braintree’s e-commerce transactions are initiated on a foreign shore. CEO Bill Ready explains why its international expansion is… Read more »