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 […]
One of the most intriguing ecommerce trends to watch in the coming year is “voice shopping.” Amazon and Google are accelerating the adoption of home assistants/speakers that let users interact with them and order items […]
PayPal continues to be intrigued with innovative payment methods and on Wednesday the company named Bitcoin expert Wences Casares to its Board of Directors. In the announcement, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said Casares’ focus on […]
Ecommerce powerhouse Rakuten will allow Bitcoin payments, the company announced. Customers will be able to choose Bitcoin as a payment option on Rakutken.com (formerly Buy.com), to be followed by Rakuten.de in Germany and Rakuten.at in […]
PayPal is willing to let its merchant customers accept the virtual currency Bitcoin, but it’s not willing to extend protection to cover such transactions – the eBay payments company will limit Bitcoin transactions to the […]
eBay shareholders asked John Donahoe some interesting questions on Tuesday following the annual shareholders meeting in San Jose. The CEO found himself fielding questions about rival Amazon, about Bitcoin and about a controversial seller policy. […]