Amazon is adding Venmo as a payment option on Amazon.com and the Amazon app, giving the e-commerce giant access to 90 million users of the mobile payment service. Amazon announced… Read More
Starting next year Amazon customers will be able to pay on Amazon.com and Amazon’s mobile shopping app via Venmo, the mobile payment service owned by PayPal. It’s the latest deal… Read More
For the first time, people can buy products they discover via Instagram using Amazon’s payments platform. Amazon has partnered with high-end clothing retailer Moda Operandi to integrate Amazon Pay directly… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, La. — On its surface, Venmo is a mobile app used by thousands of users each day to transfer money. But aside from being a convenient way to pay one… Read More
All eyes were on payments company Square on Thursday morning, as one of the Silicon Valley’s many so-called unicorns ventured out into the public markets. Things got off to a… Read More
Amazon.com is pulling the plug on yet another product, announcing on its Web site today that it is closing down its Amazon Register credit card processing service. The news comes… Read More
Starbucks and Square have officially ended a long standing relationship that we learned earlier this month was costing Square millions. Starbucks says J.P. Morgan will now process transactions at stores… Read More
Now you have no excuses to split that dinner bill or pay your friend back for movie tickets. Today, PayPal is introducing a new peer-to-peer payment service that makes it… Read More
On its first day of trading as a publicly held company, PayPal’s value soared to $50 billion following its spin-out from eBay. That interest now appears to be fueling a secondary… Read More
eBay’s smaller payments unit isn’t so small anymore. PayPal, which enables peer-to-peer transactions and digital payments, is now worth $50 billion on its first day of trading. Meanwhile, it’s former parent… Read More
In just a couple of weeks, eBay and PayPal will no longer be bound together at the hip, ending a 13-year corporate marriage. The plan was originally announced last year, and last… Read More
Restaurants want to focus on making good food and pleasing customers. But given rapid changes in the payments industry, owners must also now pay attention to new technologies that are… Read More
You will no longer be asked to check-out on Amazon when backing your favorite inventors on Kickstarter. According to Re/Code, Kickstarter is replacing Amazon as its payment processor with Stripe, a hot… Read More
Snapchat released an update to its popular ephemeral messaging app today that enables “Snapcash,” a new service that allows friends to send money alongside their disappearing photos and messages. It’s… Read More
AllSaints, a high-end British fashion retailer, has started offering Amazon Prime members free shipping, representing the first time perks associated with the $99 annual membership have become available on third-party sites. Amazon announced… Read More
Starbucks is not messing around when it comes to the tectonic shifts occurring with consumers, especially as it relates to those mobile devices that coffee drinkers are carrying around in… Read More
CurrentC, the mobile payment system being developed by a group of retailers — and a competitor to Apple Pay — has already been hacked. CurrentC is sending warning emails to beta users of… Read More
Watch out, Amazon: Apple and Alibaba may be teaming up. Both Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alibaba CEO Jack Ma spoke at the WSJ Live conference last night about their… Read More
Square plans to announce a new location-based service today that will let customers place coffee orders from their phone and have them ready when they arrive. But the service will not be… Read More
Shares of eBay jumped more than six percent on Tuesday as the online retailer and marketplace announced plans to spin off its PayPal payments business in 2015, a plan that was… Read More
An Amazon payments veteran is leaving the Seattle online giant and heading across town. Iain Kennedy, who had spent the past six years helping manage Amazon commerce teams, is now “driving the future of commerce… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – Merchants using Braintree’s payment platform will have a new currency to accept, thanks to a partnership between the company and Bitcoin processor Coinbase. Braintree CEO Bill Ready… Read More
Nordstrom may be one of the key players in a new payments program being devised by Apple, according to a report by Bank Innovation today. Sources close to Nordstrom tell… Read More
PayPal President David Marcus has just been hired away by Facebook to head up the social network’s messaging division. The announcement is a huge loss to eBay-owned PayPal, which has gone… Read More
Amazon has purchased GoPago, a San Francisco-based tablet point-of-sale and mobile payment startup, according to a report in La Repubblica, GoPago’s platform allows users to pre-pay for goods at a participating… Read More
You’ve now got a new way to pay for that tall vanilla decaf latte. Starbucks and Square today formally rolled out their partnership, allowing coffee lovers a new way to… Read More
Square, which has developed a portable credit card reader for iPhones, iPads and Android, has closed out its series D financing round from Citi Ventures, Rizvi Traverse Management, Starbucks and others.… Read More
Supermarkets are increasingly adopting self checkout terminals. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer at RIM and Attachmate, believes he’s come up with a better way for people to do their… Read More
Silicon Valley-based Lemon received a substantial boost of $8 million in investment funding to fuel its “Smarter Wallet,” a digital wallet that allows your smartphone to snap and store every… Read More
A stealthy startup by the name of Quemulus is emerging in Bellevue with grand plans to take on the likes of PayPal, Dwolla and other mobile payment companies. That’s a… Read More