BlackBerry Tests BBM Money P2P Service In Indonesia
February 11, 2013

BlackBerry has begun its commercial pilot for its BBM Money P2P payments service in Indonesia, according to Finextra. The platform allows BlackBerry users to send money to other contacts who have also signed up for the service from within the messenger app, and also allows...

Coinbase Sells $1 Million Bitcoins In Past Month
February 10, 2013

Coinbase, an online platform for buying and selling bitcoins, has announced that its users have bought and sold more than $1 million in worth of the currency in the past month. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

Stripe Launches Code Library For Credit Card Form Development
February 10, 2013

Stripe has released a library of code for building credit card forms called jQuery.payment designed to help developers build better payments forms, reports TechCrunch. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Uber Rolls Out “Uber Perks” Corporate Benefit Program
February 10, 2013

Uber has announced its new “Uber Perks” corporate benefit program that allows employers to offer Uber credits to their employees on a monthly basis. The platform comes with no minimums, fees or contracts, although the Uber credits do expire at the end of each month....

FTC Gives Their Take On Mobile Privacy Recommendations
February 10, 2013

The smartphone market may be exploding, but with it, so too are consumer privacy concerns. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter,...

Bango Secures $10m Funding, Plans Emerging Markets Expansion
February 10, 2013

Bango has announced that it has secured an additional $10.2 million investment, to develop their business and expand into emerging markets. Ray Anderson, CEO of Bango, commented: “We believe emerging markets represent an exciting growth opportunity for us, and are seeing increasing interest from key...

Skrill Acquires Paysafecard
February 10, 2013

Skrill has announced the acquisition of paysafecard.com Wertkarten AG, the Austrian prepaid payments business. paysafecard’s products allow payments without a credit card or bank account at more than 4,000 online stores and more than 450,000 sales outlets in 33 countries across Europe, North America and...

Payleven Unveils Chip&PIN Solution For Europe
February 10, 2013

Mobile payments provider payleven has announced the launch of a mobile Chip & PIN solution across Europe. The solution is fully enabled to accept Visa debit and credit cards in the European countries where it operates. payleven’s solution provides full end-to-end encryption of transaction data,...

Sultanate Of Oman Picks Gemalto For ePassport
February 10, 2013

The Sultanate Of Oman has picked Gemalto to develop an electronic passport solution. The turnkey solution encompasses Gemalto’s ICAO* compliant Sealys ePassport documents, and a full Coesys solution suite to enroll citizens, personalize and issue secure documents. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...