eBay, Visa and Mastercard pull out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Stripe and eBay have followed PayPal in backing out of Facebook's cryptocurrency, Libra. They confirmed to the Financial Times that they would pull their support, while Mastercard and Visa have also dropped out.

Dear tech: Stop doing business with Nazis

Kicking Nazis off tech companies' services is so easy, and such a simple thing to do. It is such a basic act of human decency, a trivial task that would stop PayPal, Stripe, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, GoDaddy and many more from being unquestionabl...

34 major tech companies are uniting to fight cyberattacks

Cyberattacks are a global issue that can cause havoc regardless of who's involved, and key members of the tech industry are uniting in a bid to fight these attacks. A group of 34 companies has signed the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, an agreement promis...

Twitter reportedly disbands Commerce team behind its Buy button

A couple of years ago Twitter slid into commerce by enabling a "Buy" button that would let users flow directly into the purchase process from an ad. Now, according to a report by Buzzfeed, the company has "curtailed" development on the button, and fo...

Paypal: working towards a More User Friendly Payment Platform


PayPal has never been pretty. Sure, in 2013 the online payment giant raked in $6.6 billion in sales, accounting for 42% of Ebay's current revenue. But it did not do it in style. The website, the...