PayPal and Uber have been partnered on payments since 2013 — and that partnership is about expand. Uber is available in 300 cities, and soon riders in Canada, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland can use PayPal to pay for their...
Apple Pay’s expansion into the U.K. will start next month with 250,000 merchant locations accepting the mobile payment option. And while some say that 2015 will be “the year of Apple Pay,” Apple’s recently published FAQ on how things will actually work has dampened the general mood...
Online-to-offline, O2O, and same day (or in some cases same hour) deliveries are the next big battles in the war for eCommerce domination – putting it right in the wheelhouse for Alibaba (and subsidiary business Ant Financial). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Royal Mail, the U.K.’s postal service, may soon be carrying some typically unwelcome mail through a pilot project that allows online retailers to send marketing material to consumers who have visited their website, The Guardian reports. This means that junk mail which was once conveniently filtered into a spam...
The Chinese government released on Saturday (June 20) a series of guidelines to support cross-border eCommerce, its new pet project. China-based eCommerce companies will be handed state support on international projects and credit insurance services, according to various reports. According to Reuters, the government’s support...
After less than a month, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma is back in Russia to attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, but also to discuss with Russian officials the common objectives eCommerce offers the two nations, reports Watch China Times. Ma is hoping for his No....
In March 2014 — before Alibaba was a publicly traded company — the eCommerce giant made its mark in the U.S. eCommerce market with the rollout of 11 Main. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
India is likely to adopt several incentives to spur increased adoption of electronic payments, according to draft proposals released by the government on June 22. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
The Royal Bank of Scotland confirmed that the 600,000 credit and debit transactions that were held up early last week due to a payments failure have now been processed correctly, Bloomberg reported late last week. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
