The notification comes through in seconds. A few taps on your phone, and the money is gone—your mom's electric bill, your kid's school supplies, groceries for a parent on a fixed income, all paid for.

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From Snapchat to Venmo, and even two airlines, the AWS outage on October 20, 2025, caused mass pandemonium around the world. Though Amazon said it was able to identify the problem, multiple online ...

Editor's Note: Venmo announced early Thursday that an issue impacting the payment service had been fixed. Our original story continues below. Thousands of Venmo users in Chicago and nationwide ...

Your bank can freeze a Venmo or Zelle transfer without warning. It doesn't have to explain why, and it doesn't have to be fast about unfreezing it. This happens more often than most people realize, ...

PayPal and Venmo experienced an outage Friday morning. Affected accounts couldn't send or receive payments. PayPal has since fixed the problem, and Venmo and PayPal are working again Did you have ...

Some consumers hoping to transfer funds via mobile money-sending apps PayPal and Venmo were reporting outages on Thursday, Oct. 16. Users began reporting problems with both apps about 11:15 a.m. ET on ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...