Mobile point-of-sale startup ShopKeep has acquired its payment processing partner Payment Revolution, and will integrate both the technology and the people into its own operation, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday (March 25). Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Payment Revolution CEO Etie Hertz will...
Seattle-based startup Remitly has raised another $12.5 million to help Indian and Filipino immigrants send money home from the U.S., according to a March 19 press release. The Series B funding round, which, according to Tech In Asia, more than doubled the amount the company has...
The Federal Trade Commission is launching a new research office to do deeper dives into privacy, new payment methods and the Internet of Things (among other things), the FTC announced in a pair of blog posts on Monday (March 23). The new Office of Technology...
Twitter has cut a deal with Foursquare to let users tag their tweets with much more specific location information, Twitter announced in a blog post on Monday (March 23). Users have long been able to add a general location label to tweets, such as “SoMa,...
Almost one in six iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users have switched from Android phones, and more than a third of U.S. iPhone 6 owners are using Apple Pay, according to a Cowen & Company survey of 3,000 iPhone 6 users and prospective customers reported...
Tencent, China’s second-largest Internet company, won’t be pushing international expansion of its WeChat social network for at least the next year, the South China Morning Port reported. Growing globally — including expansion into the U.S. — has been the company’s plan for the last few...
PayPal Here has finally landed on Microsoft’s Surface. The payments giant’s card-swipe device is now available with an app that runs under Windows 8.1 and a suite of small-business management software, the companies said on Wednesday (March 18). The Windows version, which the two companies...
It’s official: Windows 10 will let users log in using facial recognition, an iris scan or a fingerprint, Microsoft announced on Tuesday (March 17). The biometric authentication feature, now dubbed Windows Hello, isn’t exactly news — it’s been built into test versions of the operating...
Facebook is adding person-to-person payments to Facebook Messenger, the social network announced on Tuesday (March 17). The new free payments feature, which apparently doesn’t have any fancy branding, will roll out in the U.S. for Android, iOS and desktop users over the next few months....
