Paypal allows users to pay for specific items with a linked credit card, but it will not allow users to fund their Paypal accounts with a credit card.
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Paypal, an early leader in the field, requires users to have a Paypal account.
Paypal is to prevent users in Argentina from transferring money between their own accounts.
Today, their more than one hundred and fifty million users make Paypal the largest internet payment processor.
An online poster circulating Wednesday that seems to have been released by the Payback group suggests that users target PayPal.com soon.
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Users open a PayPal account linked to a credit card or a bank account.
To be successful, PayPal will need to convince users that its low hassle payment method is better than the old stale version of transacting.
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PayPal will charge merchants when users pay with the new cards, and, in turn, will pay Discover for access to its network, on a per-transaction basis.
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Thanks to its online ubiquity, PayPal counts more than 110 million users.
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That news comes just weeks after two major other Facebook commerce announcements: a partnership with eBay that will allow users to fund Facebook credit balances with their PayPal accounts, and a renewed commitment to expanding the program to include new developers.
For example, PayPal recently launched the Send Money iPhone application that helps iPhone users conveniently transfer funds.
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As part of the deal, PayPal will issue payment cards to its more than 50 million active users in the United States over the next year.
As part of the Discover deal, PayPal will issue payment cards to its more than 50 million active users in the United States over the next year.
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One involved PayPal and Bling Nation, a startup that offered RFID tags that mobile phone users could stick onto their phones for use at 150 or so merchants in the Silicon Valley area.
In early April, PayPal revealed that more than one million people had downloaded its new iPhone application, which allows users to transfer money to each other by "bumping" their phones.
But like other social gaming companies, Zynga allows users to speed up the process by converting real dollars from their credit card and PayPal accounts into the FarmVille currency used to buy virtual goods.
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With the new site, eBay is pooling listings from sellers around the world that are available for shipping to Russia and inviting Russian shoppers to search the site either in English or Cyrillic, with payments processed through PayPal. eBay Russia had registered 54% growth in user spend in 2012 even as the number of active users grew almost 75%.
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