Bing users now can access Bitcoin’s current conversion rate via the search bar. Microsoft announced the move this week. Coinbase, a popular online wallet service, provides Bing with up-to-date pricing data. The service is available to users in North America, some European countries and India....
04 March 2014 Approximately one-third of online sales in the United Kingdom originated from mobile devices, meaning mobile now accounts for a fast-growing share of the UK’s online sales. In the fourth quarter of 2013, more than 35 percent of all retail sales originated from...
What do Bob Selander, Arthur Hahn and George Wallner all have in common? Well, two things, actually. The first is that they changed the course of payments in a very material way – in fact so material that what they did has stood the test of time and has defined...
A new study shows that mobile commerce has surged 63 percent in the past five years. The survey, released by Cheil Worldwide, also revealed that 40 percent of smartphone owners made a purchase with their device sometime in 2013. Another 55 percent opted to use...
Roughly two months after acquiring StackMob, PayPal is closing the mobile-business platform. PayPal cited the need to focus on global growth strategies in a Feb. 13 press release. It also announced plans for how StackMob’s existing customers can retrieve data before the full closure of...
Reaction in Silicon Valley to PayPal President David Marcus’s recent memo rant over some of his employees not using PayPal, or remembering their passwords, has been mixed. So, too, apparently are Marcus’ after the contents of the memo were posted by VentureBeat. The responses ranged...
Square Cash announced a new cash request feature this week that only requires the use of an email. Those who are trying to receive money from someone send an email via the Square Cash app, the company said in a Feb. 13 press release. “Square...
Today, the nattering nabobs of bitcoin negativity are smugly pointing to mounting evidence that Bitcoin is just one big bubble on its way to becoming something pretty itsy-bitsy. With prices flopping between $1,100, $500, $900, and then below $100, all in the space of a...
04 March 2014 Paysbuy, an online payment service provider, says it will launch a series of new services over the course of the next 10 months. Part of the initiative includes the launch of a media property, Telecompaper.com,Tech In Asia reported on Feb. 27 Paysbuy is...
