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| 7:00AM 3/02/2011
After a long, painful transformation from an online auction site to a mobile-focused e-commerce hub, eBay is finally staging a comeback, online and on Wall Street. But auction sales don't account for its rousing recovery. For that, it has PayPal to thank.
| 9:15AM 1/12/2011
They say necessity is the mother of invention. But for the young entrepreneurs behind WePay.com, necessity looked less maternal--and more like a confusing mishmash of cash and checks as they tried to collect money from friends to cover a bachelor-party tab.
Their solution--a group payment epiphany...
| 2:30AM 11/16/2010
Shopping via your cell phone could soon have a new meaning: Google is developing a new phone that it says will be able to transmit payment information to vendors more securely than credit cards. The shopaholics' phone will hit shelves in the next few weeks.
| 2:30AM 9/22/2010
Lorrie Norrington, head of eBay's e-commerce division, says she is leaving the company for personal reasons. Her departure will leave more work for other executives, as well as questions about the division's rebound.
| 3:30PM 7/06/2010
The smartphone revolution is about to upend another business: credit card processing. With Google's new Android pay-by-phone app and Square's new transaction hardware for iPhones, your plastic could become obsolete.
| 9:00AM 5/20/2010
In a near perfect example of convergence, soon you'll be able to use your iPhone as a VISA card. Visa and DeviceFidelity have teamed up to introduce In2Pay, a case that turns your iPhone into a credit card. The resulting device will allow you to use the iPhone at approximately 150,000 retail...
| 12:00PM 5/06/2010
Are you ready to give up cash and checks and start using your credit card exclusively? You might just be able to do that -- if you own a smartphone.
Seems that now that almost everyone with a cell phone is quickly exchanging it for a smartphone, several companies are betting good money that these...
| 8:00AM 4/03/2009
For many Americans, even with all the economic stress these days, tax time is a season of joy because it means tax returns will soon start showing up in their checking accounts. Whether the money is going to a vacation, sauna, new car or mortgage payments, these lucky souls are feeling pretty good...
| 4:00PM 3/16/2009
Business as usual for credit-card holders means, of course, more bad news today. The banks are raising cardholders' late and over-limit fees and interest rates; USA Today delivers the sordid details. The lenders couch their rising interest rates as a means to offset unprecedented delinquency (when...
| 4:30PM 3/04/2009
MySpace and Citi have teamed up to turn users of the ad strewn social networking site into a new generation of Citi controlled citizens. Generation Forward, as they are being called, are invited by Citi and MySpace to get a new kind of credit card, one that has its own manifesto, and also rewards...