PayPal’s developer arm Braintree has finished its initial integration work with Coinbase, and is opening up a beta program to its online merchants and mobile developers who want to start accepting… Read more »
For some time now, businesses have faced many challenges when it comes to the infrastructure needs of consumer-facing applications. But today there are metrics that can help them justify and benchmark… Read more »
Stripe, a payments provider for emerging startups, is exploring new types of currency transactions starting with bitcoin. It’s launched a bitcoin pilot among its customers, which it plans to expand into… Read more »
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 »
PayPal announced Thursday the global rollout of its new and improved REST application programming interfaces (APIs), released in beta in March. Many developers disapproved of previous PayPal (s ebay) APIs, and… Read more »
Sherpa is trying to build a more flexible virtual assistant technology that can easily adapted for new tasks. To that end it has developed its own conceptual meta-language which it uses… Read more »
PayPal acknowledges that its developer program hasn’t exactly wowed web developers and app makers in the past. But the company plans to make amends at SXSW. Read more »
Under the heading of “NewNet” I focus on new Internet technologies like social media and real-time feeds, which is a bit of a reach from eBay’s business. But Om’s post on… Read more »
PayPal is opening up substantial parts of its global transactional engine, extending the open platform dubbed “PayPal X,” company executives announced this morning… Read more »