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The PayPal Blog
thepaypalblog.com · Company blog · on HN since 2008
PayPal's corporate blog, with company announcements, product launches, and statements on account disputes and outages.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it for PayPal's official statements, such as on WikiLeaks, the Regretsy dispute, a site outage, and the site redesign.
32HN people shared it
7linked it in comments
29stories submitted
522story points
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Most-shared posts
- 1Regretsy Issue Resolution2 people · 114 points · first shared 2011 · 75 comments on HN
- 2Introducing PayPal Here: The Future of Commerce for Small Business2 people · 19 points · first shared 2012 · 12 comments on HN
- 3Updated Statement about WikiLeaks from PayPal General Counsel, John Muller2 people · 14 points · first shared 2010 · 3 comments on HN
- 4Paypal restricts Wikileaks account.2 people · 14 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 5PayPal surpasses 100M active accounts, predicts the end of the wallet by 20152 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
- 6PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet1 people · 166 points · first shared 2011 · 71 comments on HN
- 7PayPal Acquires card.io1 people · 91 points · first shared 2012 · 54 comments on HN
- 8PayPal Reverses Indian Accounts1 people · 39 points · first shared 2010 · 18 comments on HN
- 9Paypal launches Micro-Payments for online content1 people · 17 points · first shared 2011 · 18 comments on HN
- 10Paypal resumes local bank transfers to India1 people · 9 points · first shared 2010 · 6 comments on HN
- 11PayPal Launches Developer Tools and Support for Mobile Payments Technology1 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12PayPal Statement on Courage to Resist Situation1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13PayPal site outage1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 14India Suspended From PayPal For "At Least a Few Months"1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 15New Paypal Platform1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
v33ra · 2012-06-21
it's not just the homepage redesign - the US customers should be able to see the complete redesigned site [As per the official PayPal blog: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2012/06/paypal-com-gets-a-makeover-2/ ]
ukdm · 2011-12-06
PayPal has unlocked the account and made a donation to Regretsy
https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/12/regretsy-issue-resolution/
compumike · 2010-12-14
PayPal can now do the pre-authorization thing under their Adaptive Payments API (see https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1419). We did exactly what you're talking about (one-time preapproval, and then either charge or cancel after a few days) for a project earlier this year. You do have to explicitly apply to PayPal for access to these advanced APIs, but we found that process to be quick and painless. The API is relatively clean.
When we were working with it earlier this year, the end user had to have a PayPal account, which might be a barrier. However, my understanding is that this is no longer required (https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/06/it%E2%80%99s-official-guest-paym…
snissn · 2010-12-09
I would have linked to the paypalblog but it seems to be down at the moment :)
https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/12/updated-statement-about-wikileak… for when it is accessible again
perhaps this is a 'less biased' source -- http://emoney.allthingsd.com/20101208/paypal-releases-funds-to-wikilea…
RiderOfGiraffes · 2010-10-29
Here:
https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/10/paypal-site-is-back-up/
They declare it was back up after 1:17, whereas "customers" are still complaining after four and a half hours.
Good old PayPal.
_delirium · 2010-07-28
Here's PayPal's announcement about it: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/07/update-on-paypal-accounts-for-in…
ivey · 2009-08-19
Official clarification from PayPal: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2009/08/a-clarification-on-paypal’s-rece…