January 04, 2013
Press Release: FTC confident Google concessions good for competition
In an official press release the Federal Trade Commission has announced a 5-0 agreement to end its longstanding case against Google after the search giant agreed to alter its business...
January 03, 2013
Twitter Teases Zynga, Vatican Payments, GOP Moves
Here are our top five tweets from the week that was. Keep tweeting, and we may feature you next Friday. @FirstData: Interesting predictions by @karenmpd for #payments industry in 2013....
December 18, 2012
Openbucks, Live Gamer Expand Prepaid Payment Options For Online Gaming
Openbucks and digital commerce platform Live Gamer have extended their prepaid payments options for online gamers in the U.S. and Canada, reports The Paypers. Openbucks will allow consumers to use...
October 31, 2012
Betable Signs Slingo, Digital Chocolate, Murka For Real-Money Gambling Development
Real-money gaming platform Betable has signed developers Slingo, Digital Chocolate and Murka to its private beta gaming platform, reports Tech Crunch. Betable says it’s handpicking developers for its beta platform,...
October 23, 2012
MOL Buys Gaming Cash-Based Payments Platform Rixty
MOL AccessPortal has made a majority steak investment in Rixty, a cash-based payments platform for gaming. MOL AccessPortal’s parent company, MOL Global, also owns early social network player Friendster. Financial...
October 23, 2012
Dwolla Aims At PayPal With New MassPay Feature
Look out, PayPal: there could be a new king in the mass payments industry. Dwolla, the startup payments network that aims to offer relative low fees for transaction processing, has...
October 05, 2012
Discover Enjoys Six Fold Growth as Young Adults Flock To...
It often seems you can’t read about prepaid accounts or programs without the words “unbanked” or “underbanked” following closely behind. Jeff Lewis, Director Alternative Payments and Prepaid for Discover, says...
August 17, 2012
Single-Click Your Way To Mobile Commerce Success
Analysis From Massimiliano Silenzi, Head of Onebip In the era of smartphones and tablets, today’s mobile consumers have shown an incredible appetite for consuming content and media....
August 02, 2012
The Case Of The Enveloping Platform
All of the discussion about Facebook’s lousy earnings last week brought to mind a little story about platforms that I wanted to share with you. Once upon a time in...