Posted by Tim Attinger on 9 December 2010 | 0 Comments
Tags:
holiday,
retail,
shopping,
consumers,
payments,
eCommerce,
payment cards
As we press into our few remaining days before the holiday, many of us are taking the time to log on to retailer websites (most often at work) to take care of some last-minute shopping. If you're like most consumers, there are a handful of online sites where you shop frequently. You've probably registered with those merchants, giving them your payment, billing, and shipping details tied to a username and password. Maybe for some of those folks for whom finding the right gift is always a challenge, you might log in to an online search site to look for gift ideas, ask for suggestions from friends in your social network site, or you might even respond to an inbound e-mail pitching a new product idea.
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Posted by Karen Webster on 4 May 2010 | 9 Comments
Tags:
mobile,
payments,
apple,
google,
vivotech,
quattro,
corduro,
ecommerce,
mcommerce,
smart-phones,
iphone,
android
Apple and Google are off to the races in owning commerce on the mobile phones as recent transactions and announcements clearly show. Here’s a running recap …
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Posted by David S. Evans on 26 April 2010 | 1 Comments
Tags:
PayPal,
PayPal X,
ecommerce,
API,
SDK,
innovation,
payments,
P2P,
ACH,
Invisible Engines
When it comes to using invisible engines to drive innovation and transform industries, PayPal is the first out of the gate in the payments industry and well ahead of the traditional players. This online payments giant claims that “PayPal X is the first and only global payments platform open to third-party developers. Our new set of APIs will offer unlimited possibilities for [developers] to easily monetize your ideas, by providing security and connectivity to the world’s financial systems.” This isn’t the usual hype—whizbangthing.ppt—that we get from payments providers trying to stake a claim. Six months after announcing its open platform more than 25,000 applications have been written to it and a vibrant developer community is are cranking out more apps as you read this.
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Posted by David S. Evans on 28 December 2009 | 1 Comments
Tags:
paypal,
disruptive,
payments,
ebay,
mastercard,
american express,
discover,
visa,
merchant,
e-commerce,
ecommerce,
electronic commerce
The New Kid on the Block: PayPal
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Posted by Karen Webster on 15 October 2009 | 5 Comments
Tags:
facebook,
payvment,
payment,
social,
network,
social commerce,
social network,
ebay,
paypal,
ecommerce
So, here's a development: Paypal has opened up its payments platform to enable developers to easily integrate payment apps into their Facebook apps using PayPal as the enabling payments mechanism. This solution is designed to open up commerce on social networks and tap into the tens of millions of people who hang out there each month. The solution creates many, many winners, some unintended consequences, and one big loser.
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