B2B sellers can provide a better online experience by defining “customer personas,” or profiles, that can help them identify the priorities of individual personas and tailor the eCommerce experience to meet their needs, one online seller noted in a recent commentary. Traditionally, B2B companies have...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) convinced a federal court to shut down a Missouri-based Bitcoin company called Butterfly Labs because, according to the FTC complaint, the company “charged consumers thousands of dollars for its Bitcoin computers, but then failed to provide the computers until...
Just about everyone seemed absolutely giddy over Tim Cook’s breathless announcement of how Apple is revolutionizing payments. I’m hoping now that maybe, with a couple of weeks’ of distance and with at least some of you experiencing the buggy iOS8 operating system, I can make...
Mobile wallets are not easy, a statement proved true better by no business than Clinkle. After 17 month of jokes, 30 million in funding raised, a great staff exodus and then more mean-spirited humor, it almost seemed as though the impossible had happened: Clinkle launched...
PayPal is taking another small step in helping digital currency, particularly bitcoin, enter the mainstream by helping their merchants accept bitcoin payments. The leader in online payments is pairing up with Bitcoin processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin to allow digital goods (ring tones, games, etc) merchants to take...
Did China’s Alibaba have the largest IPO in history? Maybe. Shares priced at $68 a pop and it had a market capitalization of $168 as it kicked off trading on the NYSE. This would bring the total amount raised by Alibaba’s IPO to $21.8–and a...
It’s clear that Apple has a tremendous amount of influence when it comes to consumers and their technology, a path SecureNet’s CEO Brent Warrington, says consumers are quite comfortable traveling. But Warrington tells MPD CEO Karen Webster that getting into payments is a much bigger...
E-Commerce platform WooCommerce has added LevelUp as a mobile payment option to cut merchants’ payment processing costs, the companies said in a news release. WooCommerce merchants who use the LevelUp integration will be able to accept LevelUp payments and pay a 1.95 percent processing rate for...
Walmart’s ambitions to be a viable B2B supplier in India continue to grow, as two more of the megaretailer’s Best Price Modern Wholesale stores are set to add eCommerce-service support, in Guntur and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. The stores reportedly will begin supporting eCommerce sales...
