Monday, February 15, 2010

PayPal Update for Indian Users




Hi Friends

As I mentioned the situation of PayPal in my last two blog post :

Here is an update to PayPal users from India. As of now the issue will take approx another 10-15 days time. Because of this current isuue lot of people in India are facing problem and they have several queries to find out the solution. Here are some possible questions along with the answers.

To keep track of payments that have been reversed is painful as well. Paypal tried answering the question as why it has suddenly stopped certain payments for India. Most of the questions have been answered by Anuj Nayar in The Paypal Blog.

1. Why did you suspend local bank transfers and personal payments to and from India?
We temporarily suspended these services to respond to enquiries from the Indian regulators, specifically questions on whether personal payments constitute remittances into India.
We’re working with the regulators and our bank processing partners in India to get this resolved as quickly as we can. We realize that this is causing considerable inconvenience to our customers and I want to reassure you that this is a top priority for the leadership at PayPal

2. When will personal payments be turned back on?
The regulators recently let PayPal know about revised licensing rules that we are now actively engaged in securing. Personal payments to and from India will be suspended for at least a few months until we fully resolve the questions from the Indian regulators.

3. When will local bank withdrawals be available?
Customers should be able to withdraw their funds to a local bank within the next few days. In the meantime, we’re going to restore the money into the PayPal accounts of any customers in India who have initiated a recent withdrawal, so they know that the money is safe in their accounts. Customers will also be reimbursed for any withdrawal fee charges.

4.The PayPal reversal has left me with a negative balance. What shall I do?
If you bought something or transferred money out of your PayPal account to your bank account before we reversed the payment then you may be left with a negative balance.
If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, you should contact the sender and have him or her resend the payment as follows:
(a) click the Send Money tab, and
(b) select “purchase.”
If this was a personal payment, then the sender will need to find another payment method until we restore the service.  We’re sorry about this.
If you can’t recover the funds from the sender, you can bring your PayPal balance current by logging in to the PayPal account and clicking the “Resolve Negative Balance” link on the Account Overview page.

5. My payment was reversed but it was not a personal payment. What happened?
Only personal payments should have been reversed. Customers who believe that their payments were reversed in error should request that the payment be sent again by following the steps above (click the Send Money tab and select “purchase.”)
If you are still having problems, please contact PayPal customer support

I hope that this helps clear up some of the confusion around the situation in India.

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Friday, February 12, 2010

Google acquires social search engine "Aardvark"




Internet giant Google has bought Aardvark, a "social search" service that relies on a user's contacts to provide answers to questions.

Co-founder and chief technology officer Damon Horowitz said -"I can confirm that we have signed an agreement with Google,"

This Deal is costing approx 50 million US dollars to Google.The deal is expected to be finalized over the next several days.

About Aardvark - Founded in 2007 ( San francisco -US), Its co-founders include the former member of Google.Aardvark uses the contacts in a person's network to provide answers to questions via the Web at Vark.com, instant messaging, email or Twitter.

In a recent blog post, Aardvark said it had more than 90,000 users in October 2009 and 87.7 percent of the questions sent to Aardvark received answers from a friend or a friend of a friend.

Aardvark said 75 percent of the users who asked Aardvark a question also answered a question for someone else.

The company boasts a technical team of "over 20 people, including engineers from each of Silicon Valley's major technology companies" and its website lists several job vacancies.


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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Iran Bans the Giant "G"

Iran has banned Google’s Gmail service from the country., saying that it was launching a national e-mail service for Iranians which help government and people to build better relation..

The Gmail ban comes amid high tension between the government and the opposition, with the regime increasingly tracking the efforts of opposition supporters on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

The report said that Gmail is one of the most popular of the western mail services in Iran, especially among young people who are among the strongest supporters of the opposition.


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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Welcome to Google Buzz

Hi Friends

Google never allow any one to be in news for long time, So Google come up with its new product "Buzz" and now its time for Google Buzz.

Twitter was the most popular word for 2009 and i believe BUZZ will be for 2010. Google Buzz will be the new star of Social Media Foray.

Let try to find out more in detail about Google Buzz.

Google Buzz is specially designed and created for Gmail Users where they can easily sharephoto, links and status update without visiting sites such as FaceBook or Twitter.

In present, Invitation is required for Gmail user to use Google Buzz but within a week time all Gmail user can use the Google Buzz. Google said it may open Buzz for outside users also in future but for now its for Gmail users only.

Google also launched special mobile phone apps for Buzz for Apple’s iPhone and for smartphones powered by its own Android operating system.

Social Media Analysts said the move by Google was designed primarily to head off FaceBook's advantages in the huge amount of user data or in other way we can say its going to be the FaceBook Killer.

Facebook boasts some 400 million users while Gmail had 176 million unique visitors in December, according to tracking firm comScore.

Yahoo! added a similar feature to its email program, Yahoo Mail, last year, allowing users to see whether friends have uploaded a photo to a photo-sharing site such as Flickr.

Product manager for Google Buzz, "Todd Jackson" -a new way to communicate within Gmail.Buzz will be an entire new world within Gmail.

Some Key Features of Google Buzz are :-

  • Auto-following

  • Rich, fast sharing experience

  • Public and private sharing

  • Inbox integration

  • Just the good stuff

As is the case with wildly popular microblogging service Twitter, Buzz lets users "follow" people that share updates with the world.


Monday, February 8, 2010

Why PayPal Stop Personal Payments in India?


Hi Friends

As i mentioned in my last post that "PayPal Temporarily Stop Some India Services". PayPal has temporarily withdraw the service from India which includes:
  • Personal Payment to or from India
  • Transaction from PayPal to Indian Bank
The Service which is still active is Purchase of goods/services through PayPal is still working.

The reason for PayPal to withdraw some services is that RBI (reserve Bank of India) asked some documents which PayPal failed to supply.

People in India who do transactions using PayPal are heavily affected. They are not able to withdraw money and can’t get personal payments.

According to Paypal’s Spokesperson Anuj Nayar:
“I’m writing to let you know that personal payments to and from India and transfers to local banks in India have been suspended while we work with our business partners and other stakeholders to address questions they have about the service.

During this time, customers can still make commercial payments to India but merchants cannot withdraw funds in Rupees to local Indian banks.


We’re trying to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we’re really sorry for the inconvenience that this may cause our customers in India and around the world”.



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