Ecommerce Industry News
Stripe announced it is ending support for Bitcoin payments. In a blog post this week, Product Manager Tom Karlo said Bitcoin’s evolution has made it less useful for payments and better suited to being an […]
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman took to the corporate blog on Thursday to praise users for their charitable giving. People donated over $1 billion to charities and non-profits during the holiday season (Nov. 27 – Dec. […]
Google took a page out of Amazon’s marketing book by consolidating its Android Pay and Google Wallet payments services into one brand on Monday: Google Pay. With Amazon’s Alexa technology enabling voice shopping through the […]
It was supposed to make buying and selling across borders easier, but the merger between US money-transfer firm MoneyGram and China’s Alipay parent Ant Financial has been nixed. However, the two companies will work together […]
PayPal UK has published an ebook, “How to sell like Christmas all year round,” and is making it available on its website at no charge. Between one fifth and one third of UK retail sales […]
BigCommerce is now allowing merchants to offer Visa Checkout on their stores. The integration allows customers who are enrolled in Visa Checkout to use pre-stored payment details and address information to complete a purchase on […]
PayPal is running a promotion that rewards users for making a big-ticket purchase. Users who register for the promotion and spend $100 on a single transaction using PayPal by December 15, 2017, will receive a […]
Sellers can send PayPal invoices via Facebook, opening up new possibilities for getting paid quickly online or in person – even at a yard sale, PayPal announced on Tuesday. Sellers can send invoices to customers […]
PayPal is letting users link their accounts to the Acorns investment app, and in doing so, the company is gaining greater access to information about user behavior in an age where data is currency and […]
PayPal, which has offered consumer financing since 2008, is selling $6.8 billion in receivables to Synchrony Financial, with which it is expanding its consumer credit relationship. The Wall Street Journal called it a long-awaited deal […]