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Social commerce outfit Payvment is shutting down its platform and offloading its 200,000 Facebook merchant customers to rival Ecwid.
28 January 2013
EBay says fourth quarter results beat analysts' forecasts, boosted by a dramatic rise in the use of mobile phones to access its online auction house and PayPal service.
17 January 2013
The value of US mobile payments is set to soar over the next few years, from $12.8 billion in 2012 to $90 billion in 2017, according to research house Forrester.
16 January 2013
Following the dramatic rise of e-commerce, which now accounts for 20% of all spending on its cards, Visa Europe is turning its attention to the mobile phone, predicting that a third of Europeans will be using its V.me digital wallet by 2020.
15 January 2013
Russia's Sberbank is to spend $60 million for a majority stake in Yandex.Money, the online payment business of Russian search engine Yandex.
19 December 2012
Eleven financial institutions from Italy, France and Luxembourg are lined up to participate in the live launch of MyBank, a new online payments service from EBA Clearing which will open for business on 25 March 2013.
PayPal has launched a 'pre-paid cash card' that Americans can buy in-store and use to top up their accounts for online purchases.
14 December 2012
Citigroup's global consumer chief marketing and Internet officer Michelle Peluso has jumped ship to become CEO of online retailer Gilt.
07 December 2012
A British student has been convicted for his part in a series of DDoS attacks carried out by the Anonymous collective against major firms, including PayPal.
06 December 2012
PayPal experienced its biggest ever mobile shopping day on Sunday, exceeding the previous record set on Cyber Monday a week earlier.
05 December 2012
The Royal Bank of Scotland has become the UK's first financial institution to begin trialling Visa's V.me digital wallet.
28 November 2012
South Africa's Absa and MasterCard have unveiled a dual contactless debit and credit card which also includes a display screen for passcodes that secure online payments.
Denmark's four network operators have set up a company to develop a common platform for mobile payments in the country.
21 November 2012
'Mega Monday' - 3 December - will be the UK's biggest online shopping day in history, predicts Visa Europe, which expects to see £320 million spent on its cards alone.
20 November 2012
More than a trillion dollars will be spent around the world using mobile devices by 2017, according to IDC Financial Insights, although this will still represent only a drop in the commerce ocean.
16 November 2012
A British start-up is encouraging parents to ditch cash and take pocket money into the digital age, offering pre-paid cards to children as young as eight which can be used online, in-store and at ATMs.
15 November 2012
As Christmas approaches, Visa has signed up another 50 US financial institutions to its V.me digital wallet service, designed to make online shopping simpler.
13 November 2012
With the Christmas shopping season about to get underway, UK retail association IMRG is forecasting a £920 million spend by consumers using mobile devices in the first two weeks of December alone.
12 November 2012
Swedish start-up iZettle, which provides technology that turns mobile phones into payment terminals, has teamed up with wireless operator EE to launch in the UK.
07 November 2012
Standard Chartered Bank's Singapore unit has unveiled a payment card featuring an embedded security token for online transactions.
06 November 2012
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