Mobile Commerce

B2B Payments
Image-Capture Firm Signs ‘Six-Figure’ Invoicing Deal
June 02, 2014

Top Image Systems says it has reached an agreement with an undisclosed European company, which plans to use its eFlow system to process and approve all incoming supplier invoices and order confirmations. The manufacture also is considering using the system eventually to manage the processing...

International
Petition Seeks To Bring PayPal To Nigeria
June 02, 2014

Lagos, Nigeria-based design company CreativityKills, hoping to bring PayPal to Nigeria, recently launched a petition on the website change.org. According to the petition, Nigeria is the largest African country and those individuals in the nation are currently unable to fully use PayPal. On some websites...

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Back To School: Lawmakers Again Targeting ‘Abusive’ Campus Banking Practices
June 02, 2014

It’s been half a decade since Congress stepped in to thwart banks’ efforts to promote high-cost credit cards and loans on college campuses. Lawmakers are back at it again, this time targeting conflicts of interest and kickbacks between financial institutions and schools related to debit...

Mobile Commerce
Alibaba Helping Merchants With Online Video Ads
June 02, 2014

Alibaba Group has begun placing Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com merchants’ display marketing on the country’s top online video websites through the company’s Alimama online marketing platform, the Chinese e-commerce giant announced May 29. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Merchant Innovation
BluePay Working With Recovery Group On Settlement Collection
May 30, 2014

Merchants processing through BluePay that don’t want to deal with trying to collect on their own their portion of the $7 billion interchange class-action settlement Visa and MasterCard struck with merchants in 2012 now have an alternative. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

International
Brandesco Seguros Launches mWallet
May 30, 2014

Bradesco Seguros, a branch of one the big banks that offers medical insurance, will launch an Andorid and iOS m-wallet, developed by Scopus, which will enable customers to consolidate cards. Windows and tablet support will be available in a second phase. Get the Full Story...

Mobile Commerce
Liquor Stores Go Mobile
May 30, 2014

Mobile apps can match taxi drivers to passengers, travelers with spare bedrooms and now liquor stores with people who want beer, wine and spirits delivered to their doorstep. Drizly has created a retail delivery network of liquor stores that consumers access via a mobile app...

B2B Payments
The Carrots and Sticks of Invoice Surcharging
May 30, 2014

The fees companies pay to accept card payments from customers have long been a point of contention. An Australian company, eWAY, is using a system from Xero that automates the ability to enable a surcharge on card payments while also giving buyers the chance to...

B2B Payments
Aver Informatics Nets $8.5 Million To Make Health Care Payments Efficient
May 30, 2014

You can’t reform health care payments without reforming the claims process. And that is exactly what Aver Informatics just raised a bunch of money to go do. They want to help health care payments providers and insurers analyze and then take data already available through...