If you're like me, you're probably planning to spend this Labor Day weekend barbequing, relaxing and listening to your favorite tunes. It seems that music always tends to play a central role during holidays, events and family gatherings. Here at PayPal, we've talked a lot about the continued innovation around digital music and as the music .

We hope you've enjoyed watching the "Zombie Apocalypse" and "Paytron" videos produced by the PayPal community. Today, another community member shows a more risqué side to the future of money in "No Pockets Required." As the video clearly demonstrates, contrary to what our competitors are saying, you may not even need a mobile phone to .

I'm thrilled to tell you that Rupert Keeley, one of the top executives in the payments industry, will join PayPal to run our business in Asia Pacific. I've known Rupert for many years, and I consider him one of the best executives that I've ever worked with. With 30 years of experience in the payments space, .

The answer is that all of them will have a part at the X.commerce Innovate Conference 2011, October 12 - 13 at Moscone West in San Francisco. As Naveed shared back in July, X.commerce is eBay Inc.'s newly created open commerce platform group. X.commerce is not part of PayPal, it's an entirely new division that's focused .

By now, you may have seen the first in a series of videos produced by the PayPal community called "Zombie Apocalypse." Today, another community member takes a funny swipe at some of the new entrants to the payments space in the newest community-made video, "Paytron." What we loved about this video - besides that it's hilarious .

When we first opened our API to developers in 2009 we wanted to not only help companies better monetize their applications, but also inspire entirely new business models " and that's exactly what we're continuing to see today, even two years later. Kabbage, last year's PayPal X Developer Challenge audience choice award winner, built a platform .

Not so long ago we made the bold prediction that by 2015, physical wallets will be a thing of the past as digital currency will be accepted everywhere in the United States. As we continue to strive to "eat our own dogfood," we launched the Digital Currency Employee Challenge, asking five, dedicated Bay Area PayPal .

Back when we launched PayPal for digital goods we described it as the online equivalent to dropping a quarter in the slot to buy a gumball. We could have also said it was like dropping a quarter in the slot to play an arcade game. Today, everyone from FT.com to Xbox, Facebook, News International and beyond .

Originally posted on the X.commerce Developer Blog. What an exciting time it's been since we first announced the opening of our third Developer Challenge! As I stated back in March, the team here was thrilled to focus this particular challenge on the fast-growing Android ecosystem and it's been great seeing the positive response from our community. .

Hi everyone, I'm Clam Lorenz and I've just joined PayPal to lead our efforts supporting the nonprofit community. The worst drought in East Africa in 60 years is creating a famine emergency in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia. Right now, 11 million people - two million of them children - are at risk, and entire families .

Earlier this year we announced X.commerce, eBay's newly created integrated open commerce platform group that brings together the eBay, PayPal and Magento developer communities to help merchants keep up with the demands of consumers. X.commerce will officially launch at our developers conference on October 12 and 13 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Registration for the .

I had the opportunity to speak at the Casual Connect gaming conference earlier this week, and I must say it was both an entertaining and eye-opening experience. Throughout the conference, I attended fascinating sessions about what it takes to bring my favorite games to market - it's amazing to realize that thousands of hours of user .

One of the most common questions we get from our merchants is, "What security regulations do I need to know about when accepting credit card payments?" A set of guidelines from the Payment Card Industry, known as PCI Compliance, requires sellers to meet a "minimum security standard" to protect customers' payment card information against data breaches. .

Hi everyone, it's Alan Tien, General Manager of PayPal China, with an update for mobile shoppers worldwide. We've seen the explosive growth of mobile payments on our global platform over the past few years - from US$141 million in 2009 to US$750 million in 2010 and we're now expecting US$3 billion this year. Clearly, consumers around the .

You may have heard about a video produced by a member of the PayPal community called "Zombie Apocalypse." I love zombies, and this hysterical video made us laugh here at PayPal. It's a funny take on how much easier life can be when paying for things doesn't get in the way. But humor aside, we're very .

Today at MobileBeat 2011 we took another step towards realizing the PayPal vision of creating an entirely new way for people to shop and pay - anytime, anywhere and on any device - with the announcement of our peer-to-peer NFC solution. At this morning's session, I had the privilege of demoing our new NFC-enabled Android .

By now, you've all heard about our vision for 2015 where our physical wallets will be a thing of the past as digital money will be accepted everywhere in the United States. As Scott mentioned the other week, we're so confident that this is going to be a reality that we've challenged five Bay Area PayPal .

The latest version of the PayPal Mobile app for iPhone is available for download today. It features some great enhancements based on feedback straight from our users and general fixes for an even smoother experience. Here are the highlights: All app features displayed on one page Transaction history details are now just a tap away Improved filtering of .

Hi everybody. Today we announced that eBay has agreed to acquire Zong for approximately $240 million. Zong is one of the leading providers of payments through mobile carrier billing, with connections with more than 250 mobile carriers in 45 countries. Upon closing of the transaction, Zong will eventually become part of PayPal. PayPal has 100 million active accounts; .

In 1987 I watched the romantic film Dirty Dancing for the first time and for those curious minds out there, yes, I was one of the women who watched it more than once hoping that someday I too would meet my Patrick Swayze. Fast forward to 2011 and I am just one of millions of .