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This week in bitcoin: Even as price slumps, bitcoin companies push global agenda
Wallet companies may be eyeing a play in the international remittance markets.…
Read MoreThis week in bitcoin: PayPal’s bitcoin embrace spikes the price, but not for long
Following last week's flash crash, a price rebound was good for bitcoin -- until it dropped again.…
Read MoreBitcoin slowly goes global as businesses like Overstock expand to international customers
Overstock helped lead the charge of big businesses accepting bitcoin -- and now they're also among the first to bring bitcoin acceptance to a global scale.…
Read MoreThis week in bitcoin: Criticism against proposed BitLicense mounts, as deadline draws near
The bitcoin community is coming to terms with regulation, but are fighting it from snuffing out the nascent technology.…
Read MoreThis week in bitcoin: The push to get the currency in the hands of the consumer
Just the week, bitcoin payment options have been springing up everywhere from newspapers to sports teams. But why is the price still dropping?…
Read MoreHands free BitCoin payments with Google Glass and Eaze: Just nod twice
You probably won't see widespread adoption of Eaze soon but it's an interesting mobile payment system that ties Google Glass with BitCoin. Using the app and a QR code for transactions, you simply nod twice to make a payment.…
Read MoreAs sites and services become product aware, the age of pervasive commerce begins
Get ready for a "product aware" world in which wearables, location and machine learning blur the lines between online and real world commerce to deliver hyper targeted results.…
Read MoreEBay and the marketplace of ideas
To survive, traditional news organizations need to figure out how to become real marketplaces of ideas, not just part of a metaphoric one. Ebay is not be a terrible model to riff on as they try to figure it out.…
Read MoreWho will fix Groupon’s strategy?
Groupon should have been a marketing services company. Is it too late?…
Read MoreHoliday shopping raises social commerce questions
Mobile’s impact on e-commerce appears marginal but growing, but social commerce remains in serious flux.…
Read MoreSavvy rebrands as Eyeona to help retailers fight Amazon
Pricetector, which launched a price adjustment service called Savvy.com in November, is rebranding under the name Eyeona, as it looks to become an even more useful tool to both consumers and retailers. Eyeona's goal is to help retailers build a stronger relationship with consumers.…
Read MoreFancy turns social discovery into social commerce
Fancy, a self-expression social site, is launching a new demand-driven commerce model today that will let vendors and retailers sign up to be a seller on any item fancied on the site. They will be able to conduct the transaction right on Fancy.…
Read MoreBoku targets carriers with in-store payment system
Boku up until now has been known for enabling carrier billing for online goods. But the San Francisco payment start-up is leaping into the physical world with the launch of a new white label offering for carriers that will include in-store payments.…
Read MoreZipmark’s payment system looks to retire the checkbook
Zipmark, which leverages the existing check-processing infrastructure to create a digital payment system, is opening up its platform to developers. It's also poised to release an iPhone app next month, enabling consumers to pay bills and make transactions from their phone.…
Read MoreBlackLocus and the retailing price revolution
The top 20 Internet retailers changed their prices 30 times more often than their peers who had lower sales during the holiday season in 2011, according to BlackLocus, a startup that helps companies set competitive prices online. Its goal is to transform retail pricing with data.…
Read MoreTablets: the perfect shopping device
In just a short time, modern tablets have become potent shopping tools that generate an outsize effect on online commerce. 2011 was the year that the tablet became an online retailer's best friend as it emerged as the preferred device for many shoppers to make purchases.…
Read MoreVeriFone equips retailers for the future of shopping
Payment system provider VeriFone is arming its merchants and retailers with new tools to handle the evolutions in commerce. At the National Retail Federation convention this week, the company, is demonstrating how it can help merchants become more mobile, more responsive and dynamic.…
Read MoreDonahoe to lead PayPal for now, maybe forever
PayPal president Scott Thompson's departure for Yahoo highlights the changing face of eBay, which increasingly looks at PayPal as its crown jewel. And who better to safeguard that than eBay CEO John Donohoe, who has announced he will take over PayPal as interim president.…
Read MoreVerizon’s New Year’s vow: Cut back on credit cards
Looking to cut billing costs and buff its green credentials, Verizon Wireless has spent the last few years encouraging its customers to move to paperless billing. Now with millions of customers reading and paying their bills online, Verizon is springing a “convenience” fee trap.…
Read MoreHow Wayfair quietly built a $500M a year web business
In today's crowded world of e-commerce, it's not easy to make a name for yourself. That's why it's so impressive that Wayfair, a relatively little known website dealing in home furnishings and decor, is set to make more than $500 million in top-line sales for 2011.…
Read MoreStudy: Apple’s iPhone, iPad account for 90 percent of mobile purchases
f people are buying through online retail sites on mobile, they're most likely doing so on Apple devices, according to a new report. iPads and iPhones accounted for over 92 percent of online retail not originating from a desktop device in December, according to the study.…
Read MoreEBay adds invoice payments to PayPal with BillSafe acquisition
EBay is continuing its buying spree, snapping up Germany's BillSafe, a payment-by-invoice provider. The new acquisition will be rolled up into PayPal, which made a minority investment in BillSafe last year and collaborated on a joint online invoice payment solution for e-commerce customers.…
Read MoreForget wallets. What else is NFC good for?
NFC has been trashed by critics, who say it adds no value to consumers or is a technology in search of a need. But increasingly, we're seeing more interesting projects and applications being built that show how NFC will be deployed outside of mobile payment situations.…
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