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BT has teamed with paysafecard on a service that enables Brits to make online purchases from their mobile phones without handing over card details.
03 August 2009
Details of 573,928 credit and debit cards may have been stolen by criminals who planted code on servers supporting e-commerce merchant Web sites hosted by Network Solutions.
27 July 2009
PayPal is set to open up its platform to third party developers in a move the firm says will make it easier for them to make money from their ideas.
07 July 2009
Online spending in the UK is set to more than double, to £21.3 billion, by the end of 2011 as Brits turn to the Internet for deals during the recession, according to a report commissioned by PayPal.
24 June 2009
A new initiative has been launched by a group of tech firms, including Oracle and PayPal, to promote interoperability among identity verification applications and services for Internet users.
19 June 2009
Romania's Raiffeisen Bank and RêvEurope are partnering to launch a pre-paid card that can be used to send money via mobile phones.
18 June 2009
San Francisco-based online mobile payments start-up Boku has raised $13 million in venture funding and acquired micropayments outfit Paymo and m-payments firm Mobillcash.
16 June 2009
UK police have arrested nine people accused of using stolen credit cards to buy music they made themselves from iTunes and Amazon, fraudulently netting around $300,000 in royalties.
11 June 2009
Around 60% of UK online retailers do not know whether they are in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), according to a survey from Sage Pay.
02 June 2009
E-commerce outfit SocialWise has launched a system that enable children to make purchases online by "billing" their parents.
18 May 2009
Approximately two thirds of people around the world think the global recession has put them at greater risk of identity theft and fraud, according to research from IT vendor Unisys.
20 April 2009
Actus, a recently formed US holding company, is suing 20 companies, including Bank of America, MasterCard, Obopay and Visa, accusing them of infringing four patents related to an electronic payments system for e-commerce.
17 April 2009
PayPal has seen the number of visitors to its UK Web site rise by 50% over the last 12 months, strengthening its position as the country's most popular financial portal.
01 April 2009
California-based digital security firm VeriSign has launched a free application on the Apple App store that turns an iPhone into a one-time-password generator for accessing online accounts.
On the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web, its creator, Tim Berners-Lee has revealed he is among the millions of users to have fallen victim to online scammers.
16 March 2009
With its core business stagnating, online auction house eBay has outlined plans to turn its attention to the fast-growing PayPal, which is expected to double revenues within three years.
12 March 2009
Bank of America is looking to attract recession-hit customers with the launch of a new Web site that allows users to earn cash back on purchases at a host of online retailers.
10 March 2009
European online payments outfit Moneybookers has been put up for sale by Bahrain-based private equity group Investcorp, according to the Financial Times.
09 March 2009
Subscription billing and payments start-up Zuora has launched Z-Commerce for Facebook, a tool that lets developers charge for applications on the social networking site.
03 March 2009
Security fears are stunting the growth of e-commerce in the UK, with refusenik consumers citing media scare stories and personal accounts of online credit card fraud as reasons for not shopping on the Web.
12 February 2009
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