PayPal recently welcomed female Transition Year students from Luttrelstown Community College and Castleknock Community College into its Ballycoolin, Dublin office for a workshop as part of the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown’s Young Women in Technology Project. The workshop reflects PayPal’s drive to encourage more women to seek careers in leadership, business and technology. The event gave […]
PayPal has announced the creation of 100 new jobs at its Global Operations Centre for Europe, the Middle East and Africa in Ballycoolin, Dublin. The positions will be filled by mid-April and will contribute to bringing the number employed by the company in Ireland to 3,000 by 2018 – including 1,600 in Dublin and 1,400 […]
Todays’ target for a phishing attack is Just Eat Irish users will be enticed to follow the links in emails purportedly from the site which is offering a €50 bounty for completing a survey: Of course for this to work for the phisher they need to get their pay day. As with other attacks we’ve […]
Technology.ie attended the Vodafone Smart Business Show at the RDS recently. Among the speakers was Louise Phelan, VP Global Operations EMEA with Paypal in Dublin. Speaking on The Future of Money, she told the audience: it’s got to be mobile. Technology.ie is brought to you by Blacknight, Ireland’s leader in hosting and domains. Did you know? Dot-Irish […]
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released their Global Phishing Survey for the first 6 months of 2014 (PDF). According to their research Apple is the most phished brand on the ‘net: Apple’s brand and associated marques, such as iTunes and iPad, eclipsed perennial phishing target favorite PayPal with the computing device manufacturer enduring 21,951 of […]
Ryanair have announced a new payment partnership with PayPal, providing customers, business travellers, travel agents and corporate travel departments with even more ways to book and pay on the Ryanair.com website. This is the latest development in Ryanair’s recent customer improvements, including allocated seating, a second free cabin bag, a new website and app and […]
Hot on the heels of the announcement by Intercom that it raised €23m in Series B financing, Stripe, the online payments company founded by Patrick and John Collison, have announced a Series C round of $80m dollars which values the business at €1.75bn dollars. Both companies are founded by Irish people and both are growing […]
It looks like Paypal is centralising everything under their .com domain name. So if you’re using Paypal to accept payments via your website you might need to check your code. More details on our company blog
