Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal has launched a new mobile payments startup today, Affirm. Affirm wants to bring speed and convenience to any mobile checkout experience by significantly reducing the...
Groupon, one of the world’s largest online daily deals provider has launched Groupon Payments-a service that lets U.S. restaurants, salons and spas, retailers and other businesses that run Groupon daily...
Barclays bank has launched a PaPal alternative Pingit in UK, a mobile payment app that allows customers to transfer money via their smartphone. The Pingit app, available for iPhone, BlackBerry...
eBay today announced that it has acquired BillSAFE, a purchase-on-invoice technology provider based in Germany. The deal follows eBay’s minority stake investment in BillSAFE in October 2010. BillSAFE works with...
ZunguZ is a technology platform that merges traditional banking features with your social networks. You can pay, receive or transfer money with your contacts on any social network using credit...
The competition for payment processing services, especially mobile payments has been heating up for sometime now. It is even about to get more intense with the NFC near perfection. There...
PayPal has launched a Paypal Send Money Facebook app- that lets you send money to friends right from Facebook. Social commerce just got a lot more competitive. The app gives...
Google is shutting down all but one of Slide’s social networking apps(Just a year after Google bought Slide for more than $200 million) and saying goodbye to two of its...
VibeDeck is a free web service which allows you to sell your digital music online and keep 100% of your sales. VibeDeck aims to improve the transaction experience between artists...
PayPal unveiled its first NFC (near-field communication) solution for Android today at the MobileBeat 2011 conference.Laura Chambers, senior director of PayPal Mobile, showed off how PayPal’s new NFC Android widget...
eBay Inc. has announced today that it has agreed to acquire Zong, a provider of payments through mobile carrier billing, for total consideration of approximately $240 million in cash. Zong...
A new study from Juniper Research has determined that the total value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions will reach...
Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and one of the early investors in Facebook has named 24 winners of his first annual fellowship program that awards $100,000 to young people under...
Corduro, a social mobile payment company has developed a system to harness the true potential of mobile commerce. Corduro wants you to walk into your favorite coffee shop and check-in...
Innobell makes calls and instant messaging on mobile devices inherently more social. With the Innobell Android App, you can watch videos, play games, share photos, and more all within a...
American Express (AXP) has debuted its own mobile payments app, called Serve, that doesn’t even require you to be an American Express customer to use it. All of the technology...
Ronald Conway is an angel investor often described as one of the “super angels. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments...
Stealth online payments startup Stripe has raised $2 million in a venture round from PayPal founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, as well as Sequoia Capital, Andreesen Horowitz and SV...
StubHub, ticketing marketplace, today announced that its expansive ticketing application is now available in the Android marketplace. Through the application, fans can buy tickets to all sports, music and theatre...
The PayPal X Developer Challenge is offering prizes of up to $25,000 to developers to come up with the best use of PayPal secure payments in an Android app. Use...