Ecommerce Industry News
A payment processor popular with online sellers and small businesses called Square is kicking off a national TV advertising campaign on Monday. A spokesperson for the company told EcommerceBytes the ads are designed to highlight […]
eBay and PayPal have embraced mobile commerce and are just as enthusiastic about wearable devices, as evidenced by their support of smartwatches. The two companies launched apps for Samsung’s first generation Galaxy Gear smartwatch last […]
PayPal has hired Danese Cooper as its first-ever Head of Open Source and said she would contribute “game-changing open source strategies” for the company. PayPal positioned the new role as a positive for developers in […]
Amazon Coins is a “virtual currency” for buying eligible apps, games, and digital in-app items on the Amazon Appstore. Previously limited to purchases made on Kindle Fire devices, Amazon Coins are now available on Android-powered […]
Merchants who use Volusion to power their ecommerce websites have new option for accepting payments via web and mobile. The ecommerce platform has integrated with Stripe, an online payment service with a developer focus that […]
Mobile payments service Square has entered into a deal with Whole Foods Market, which will use Square’s point-of-sale systems to accept payments from customers purchasing items at food venues within select Whole Foods Market stores. […]
eBay has been on a makeover kick, with a new logo, new social features and a redesigned eBay Store among the changes over the past year or so. Now it’s time for its payments unit […]
eBay responded to claims of a breach of security at its PayPal payments unit in a report that was published in a blog post by a former Google software engineer. Naoki Hiroshima published the post, […]
A pair of cases involving multiple sellers suing over PayPal’s policy of holding funds continue to linger in a California court, the march toward settlement slowed by dubious attorney conduct, mutual assertions of negotiating in […]
As cofounder of social networking site Twitter and of payments service Square, Jack Dorsey is at the intersection of social and commerce. After his presentation at the National Retail Federation (NRF)’s Big Show conference in […]