There’s a new alternative to Square in town, and it’s coming from the minds of PayPal. Dubbed PayPal Here, the iPhone compatible electronic payment service will allow small businesses and casual sellers alike to accept practically any form of payment – checks, debit and credit cards and, yes, PayPal. It works like one would expect.

Yahoo on Wednesday indicated its ready to get back into the fight for Web supremacy by appointing former PayPal president, Scott Thompson, as its new CEO. Thompson will assume command effective January 9, where his first act of duty will be to address concerns over the brand’s fading presence against powerhouses like Google and Facebook.

PayPal unveiled functionality today that allows payments to be sent and received between two Android phones using NFC. Payments require a special PayPal widget, where you choose to either send or receive money. Making that selection and then tapping your phone against another with the same app up and running will send the dollars on

If you’ve been reading TechnoBuffalo for a while, then you know there’s nothing we like better than a tasty infographic. And here’s one that touches on a very hot topic these days: mobile payments. The writing has been on the wall for a while now, but things have been kicking into high gear since Google

Not everyone’s a fan of Google Wallet. eBay and its online payment service PayPal are hitting the courts, accusing two Google execs of stealing confidential information about mobile payment technology. In the cross hairs are Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, current Google staffers who once worked for PayPal. Bedier, who is now Google Wallet’s current

Well-known coffee chain Starbucks is getting in on the mobile payment craze today with the ability for you to use your phone to pay for your latte. As we’ve written about before around here, we love the idea of “virtual wallets“.  If you’re carry around your cell phone already, why should you have to deal

If there haven’t been enough problems with security concerns in our life here is another one that may have an affect on a large number of people. The Wall Street Journal reported that a hacker could access your PayPal account if you connect over an open Wi-Fi network, but connecting over a cellular data connection