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Amazon has moved to simplify the online checkout process with a feature that lets customers complete purchases by typing in a short, unique phrase and PIN.
29 October 2009
UK electronic payments company Earthport says its full year net losses more than doubled, to £7.3 million, in 2009 but claims business is now picking up.
20 October 2009
PayPal has added three banking veterans - Wachovia's John McCabe, Citi's Ed Eger and Renier Lemmens from Barclays - to its executive team.
01 October 2009
According to a survey commissioned by Internet security outfit VeriSign, one in eight of the UK's adult population have fallen victim to online ID fraud in the last year.
18 September 2009
A business model pitch called e-ME won the competition part of the Innotribe side conference run for the first time at Swift's annual conference. The concept was workshopped as part of an assignment to develop ideas in cloud computing that delegates took part in over the course of the four-day event.
17 September 2009
Fundtech has signed Bank of America Merrill Lynch as the first customer of its new Global PAYplusServices Platform (Global PAYplus-SP). The platform is based on a service-oriented architecture and will be the foundation for the bank's next-generation online banking channel for treasury management. The new payments system will be available to clients in the second half of 2010.
14 September 2009
Search giant Google is developing a micropayments platform that it hopes will be used by newspapers to charge for access to online content.
10 September 2009
Bank-owned Nigerian e-payments firm InterSwitch is deploying Gemalto's Ezio authentication technology to secure customer transactions.
07 September 2009
The number of computers infected with malware designed to steal personal and financial information has risen 600% in the last year, according to security outfit PandaLabs.
20 August 2009
Jambool, the company behind Social Gold, a virtual currency platform used for online games and applications, has raised $5 million in a series b financing round led by Madrona Venture Group.
18 August 2009
PayPal has launched a student programme that lets parents establish a sub-account for their children that they can transfer money into and monitor.
13 August 2009
PayPal users around the world were unable to make purchases for much of yesterday because of an internal network hardware failure.
04 August 2009
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
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