PayPal offers small businesses simple financing option

PayPal has made its name as an alternative way for consumers to pay for things and businesses to get paid in online transactions. Now it's delving into the credit market, first introducing Bill

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 3rd, 2013 Brian Jackson

Expensify offers to reimburse your employees with Bitcoins

In a world where cash is king, where does a digital currency rank? Highly enough for San Francisco-based Expensify to support it, apparently. The firm removes the paperwork from employee expense tracking by

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 27th, 2013 Brian Jackson

Anonymous claims PayPal hack on Guy Fawkes Day

Update: PayPal has responded to the alleged breach by saying an internal investigation finds no evidence to support Anoymous' claim of stolen passwords. Other reports on the Web now indicate a different payment

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 5th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Ashley Madison CEO responds to dispute between competitor and PayPal

No stranger to controversy, Toronto-based dating Web site Ashley Madison is in the news again – this time it's being called out by a competing online dating service.AshleyMadison.com, owned by Avid Life Media,

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 6th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Widespread mobile payments adoption still five years away, study says

Until the corner variety store in your neighbourhood installs a near field communication (NFC)-enabled payment terminal and your aunt feels comfortable paying for milk with her smartphone, it will take some time for

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 6th, 2012 Nestor Arellano

ShopLocket lets ‘micro-retailers’ sell products online

New Toronto-based Web startup ShopLocket is launching an open beta of its product today that is designed to allow anyone to sell an item online with just a few minutes of setup and

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 25th, 2012 Brian Jackson

PayPal welcomes penny’s demise

Digital payment company PayPal is not crying ouch over the news of the Canadian penny getting pinched.“We think getting rid of the penny is good news for Canadian business,” said Nicky Mezo, head

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 30th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Get paid anywhere with PayPal Here

Canadian small businesses can now process payments to them using an iPhone app developed by PayPal. Canada is one of the first global markets to receive PayPal Here.PayPal Here, a free thumb-sized card

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 15th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang quits company

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company, the latest dramatic change at the top of the embattled Internet company.Yang, who was involved in both Yahoo's rise to Internet titan inthe late 1990s

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 18th, 2012 Juan Carlos Perez

PayPal coming to bricks and mortar retail via Toronto payments processor

A Toronto-area Point of Sales (POS) provider is partnering with PayPal Inc. to be the first to allow merchants to accept PayPal payments at bricks and mortar locations on a wide-scale basis. AJB

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 11th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Never miss a parcel delivery again with BufferBox

Delivery failure is not an option.That's the motto on the Web site of BufferBox.com, a Waterloo, Ont.-based startup founded by a team of University of Waterloo Mechatronics Engineering grads fed up with missing

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 23rd, 2011 Nestor Arellano

How small business can get the most out of PayPal

In the last 13 years, PayPal has expanded far beyond its initial growth spurt on auction Web sites.According to its second-quarter results, theonline payment service busted through the $1 billion-earnings mark andis processing

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 29th, 2011 Angela West

Mobile booming like early days of search, Google Canada chief says

Mobile growth is expanding just as fast as search in its early days, and entrepreneurs should be taking advantage of that to build startups that can address small business pain, according to the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 19th, 2011 Martin Studzinski

How Canadian tech start-ups can learn from Israel’s entrepreneurial spirit

By Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette “If Canadians were as good at innovating as we are at explaining why we’re bad at it, Canada wouldn’t rank 14th among industrialized nations in the Conference Board

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 20th, 2011 Francis Moran