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TwitPay

PayPal Adaptive Payments

by Russ Jones on July 24, 2009

in P2P, PayPal, Russ Jones, Technology, TwitPay

I attended yesterday’s PayPal Platform Preview in San Jose and wanted to share some thoughts on the platform, Adaptive Payments, and the partner applications that were demonstrated.
First, a bit of context. PayPal has long offered a suite of callable APIs for payments acceptance. These APIs expose PayPal functionality to merchants that want to accept PayPal [...]

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Re: TwitPay Is Ready For Prime Time

by Russ Jones on March 4, 2009

in Amazon Payments, Russ Jones, TwitPay, Twitter

The headline might say Twitter, but for payments professionals the story here is all about Amazon Payments.
The original version of Twitpay (the one that went into beta in November 2008) was based on PayPal. Consumers funded their Twitpay account by making a PayPal payment to TwitPay. This approach had all sorts of problems, many of [...]

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