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Payments

Amazon adding Venmo as payment option

Amazon is adding Venmo as a payment option on Amazon.com and the Amazon app, giving the e-commerce giant access to… Read More

Amazon customers will be able to pay with Venmo next year

Starting next year Amazon customers will be able to pay on Amazon.com and Amazon’s mobile shopping app via Venmo, the… Read More

Amazon Pay rolls out its first payments integration on Instagram

For the first time, people can buy products they discover via Instagram using Amazon’s payments platform. Amazon has partnered with… Read More

Venmo’s secret sauce: PayPal CEO on the future of the fast-growing social payments app

NEW ORLEANS, La. — On its surface, Venmo is a mobile app used by thousands of users each day to transfer money.… Read More

Square’s stock jumps 45 percent in opening hours as the IPO-weary tech world watches on

All eyes were on payments company Square on Thursday morning, as one of the Silicon Valley’s many so-called unicorns ventured… Read More

Amazon to shutter credit card payment reader 14 months after high-profile debut

Amazon.com is pulling the plug on yet another product, announcing on its Web site today that it is closing down… Read More

Starbucks turns to J.P. Morgan to process transactions after Square partnership unravels

Starbucks and Square have officially ended a long standing relationship that we learned earlier this month was costing Square millions.… Read More

PayPal rolls out a third option to make sending money to your friends easy

Now you have no excuses to split that dinner bill or pay your friend back for movie tickets. Today, PayPal… Read More

Is PayPal’s strong public market reception fueling interest in Stripe and Square?

On its first day of trading as a publicly held company, PayPal’s value soared to $50 billion following its spin-out… Read More

It’s payday for PayPal: PayPal’s now worth $50 billion and eBay only $35 billion

eBay’s smaller payments unit isn’t so small anymore. PayPal, which enables peer-to-peer transactions and digital payments, is now worth $50 billion… Read More

Everything you need to know about eBay and PayPal’s split — and how it impacts Amazon

In just a couple of weeks, eBay and PayPal will no longer be bound together at the hip, ending a 13-year… Read More

TableSafe raises $4.5M to provide restaurants with at-the-table payment technology

Restaurants want to focus on making good food and pleasing customers. But given rapid changes in the payments industry, owners… Read More

News Brief

Kickstarter ditches Amazon for Stripe’s payment processing technology

You will no longer be asked to check-out on Amazon when backing your favorite inventors on Kickstarter. According to Re/Code, Kickstarter is… Read More

Snapchat teams with Square for mobile payment service Snapcash

Snapchat released an update to its popular ephemeral messaging app today that enables “Snapcash,” a new service that allows friends… Read More

Third-party retailers begin offering Amazon Prime members free shipping

AllSaints, a high-end British fashion retailer, has started offering Amazon Prime members free shipping, representing the first time perks associated with the… Read More

Starbucks CEO throws down gauntlet on mobile payments, says coffee company will have ‘major role to play’

Starbucks is not messing around when it comes to the tectonic shifts occurring with consumers, especially as it relates to… Read More

Apple Pay rival led by Walmart has already been hacked

CurrentC, the mobile payment system being developed by a group of retailers — and a competitor to Apple Pay — has already… Read More

Tim Cook

Watch out Amazon: Apple may team up with Alibaba

Watch out, Amazon: Apple and Alibaba may be teaming up. Both Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alibaba CEO Jack Ma… Read More

Square brews up a way to let you order coffee from your phone (but not at Starbucks)

Square plans to announce a new location-based service today that will let customers place coffee orders from their phone and have… Read More

eBay to spin off PayPal in 2015, CEO John Donahoe stepping down

Shares of eBay jumped more than six percent on Tuesday as the online retailer and marketplace announced plans to spin off… Read More

Ex-Amazon payments vet leaves to ‘drive the future of commerce at Microsoft’

An Amazon payments veteran is leaving the Seattle online giant and heading across town. Iain Kennedy, who had spent the past six years helping… Read More

Braintree teams with Coinbase to allow merchants to take Bitcoin

SAN FRANCISCO – Merchants using Braintree’s payment platform will have a new currency to accept, thanks to a partnership between… Read More

Nordstrom may partner with Apple for mobile payments

Nordstrom may be one of the key players in a new payments program being devised by Apple, according to a… Read More

Facebook poaches PayPal boss David Marcus to head up messaging

PayPal President David Marcus has just been hired away by Facebook to head up the social network’s messaging division. The announcement… Read More

Amazon reportedly buys payment startup GoPago

Amazon has purchased GoPago, a San Francisco-based tablet point-of-sale and mobile payment startup, according to a report in La Repubblica, GoPago’s… Read More

Is this how you’ll buy your next cup of Joe? Square mobile wallet arrives at 7,000 Starbucks stores

You’ve now got a new way to pay for that tall vanilla decaf latte. Starbucks and Square today formally rolled… Read More

Starbucks invests in Square at reported $3.25B valuation

Square, which has developed a portable credit card reader for iPhones, iPads and Android, has closed out its series D… Read More

QThru lands $3.5M to help you sail through the supermarket

Supermarkets are increasingly adopting self checkout terminals. But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer at RIM and Attachmate, believes he’s come… Read More

Lemon squeezes cash from Maveron for digital wallet

Silicon Valley-based Lemon received a substantial boost of $8 million in investment funding to fuel its “Smarter Wallet,” a digital… Read More

Stealthy mobile payment startup Quemulus lands cash

A stealthy startup by the name of Quemulus is emerging in Bellevue with grand plans to take on the likes… Read More

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