Online-customer retention start-up Windsor Circle said Tuesday that it has closed $5.25 million in a second round of institutional funding, VentureBeat reported. Comcast Ventures led the round, with existing investors Idea fund Partners and Triangle Angel Partners participating as well. AOL founder Steve Case also...
Facebook will be giving its advertisers a new peek into ad efficacy with the release of a new report that will shows when and how often advertisements push users to complete a purchase on a different web-enabled device. By combining the use of the Facebook Conversion...
Merchants who use PayPal will soon get real-time sales reports on the PayPal mobile app, eBay’s e-payments subsidiary announced on Tuesday (Aug. 12). The new Mobile Sales Reports feature will be rolling out over the next few weeks for both iOS and Android versions of...
Worried about new age cab competitor Uber, a group of taxi firms in India are trying a creative legal attack on Uber and it all revolves around payments. The Indian taxi firms—including Meru Cab, Easy Cabs and Mega Cab–have filed a complaint with the Reserve...
If there ever was a sector screaming for modernization—and especially mobilization—it would be vending machines. The potential to know inventory in advance, to know which of the 10 machines nearby have three of the desired item you and your friends want, to be able to...
Russia’s Central Bank is preparing to abandon its deadline for MasterCard and Visa to pay transaction security deposits because neither has yet selected a partner to process cards in Russia next year, according to a report Thursday (Aug. 14) in Russian business daily Vedomosti. “Under...
More than 575 million U.S. payment cards will include EMV chips by the end of next year, according to a statement issued jointly from Visa and MasterCard on Wednesday (Aug. 13). That number is partially based on EMV shipment plans from nine key card issuers:...
PayPal is considering rolling the dice on the online gambling marketplace. According to reports first published in Online Poker Report’s daily news letter, and followed-up on Twitter, sources have told OPR’s Chris Grove that PayPal is investigating a return to processing payments in the U.S....
A Russian national has been indicted for a series of cyber attacks against financial institutions (including Chase Bank, Capital One, Citibank and the Boeing Employees’ Credit Union) and retail POS in the U.S., as well as for running various carding forums that resold payment card...
