eCommerce

Worldpay To Merge With US Rival Vantiv In £9.3bn Deal

American rival Vantiv to expand beyond its US borders thanks to global reach of WorldPay

7 years ago

Facebook Bakes Natural Language Processing Into Messenger Platform 2.1

Developers will be able to make better use of smart service capabilities in Messenger

7 years ago

Bank Of England Opens RTGS To Non-Banks To Aid FinTech Innovation

Bank of England opens its payment system to non-banks to allow payment competition from fintech firms

7 years ago

European Banks Choose IBM Blockchain For Trade Finance System

Blockchain growth in banking sector continues after seven major European banks sign deal with IBM

8 years ago

IBM And AIG Build Blockchain Insurance Policy For London Bank

IBM-built Blockchain project completed to tackle complex insurance policies for London bank

8 years ago

Mastercard Shows Off Credit Card With Built In Fingerprint Sensor

The technology is being rolled out in South Africa with plans to come to Europe later this year

8 years ago

Visa Offers Amazon Business Purchase Data For UK Enterprise Customers

More visibility into purchases means easier reconciliation for business accountants

8 years ago

Amazon To Cut Jobs At Quidsi Family Technology Division

Efforts to return Amazon's Quidsi unit to profitability fail, so hundreds of jobs will be terminated

8 years ago

Facebook’s Instagram Introduces Business Booking Feature

The photo-sharing app, under Facebook's command, is exploring new ways to make money

8 years ago

Barclaycard bPay Stuffs Contactless Payment Tech Into Jewellery & Watches

Barclaycard bPay payment tech will be used integrated into high-street jewelry and watches

8 years ago

IBM Teams Up With Visa To Commercialise IoT Devices

Making money from IoT. Partnership to allow IoT devices to undertake secure payment services

8 years ago

Simplified Blockchain Security Promised By Accenture

Effort to drive uptake of blockchain technologies sees solution to integrate enterprise IT security solution

8 years ago

WSJ Claims Google Used Search Engine To Promote Own Products

Analysis alleges that Google used its search engine results to place adverts for its own products in top spot

8 years ago

Strathclyde University Offers UK’s First Fintech Degree Course

Good news for British banking sector after Scottish university offers first fintech degree course in the UK

8 years ago

Bitcoin Value Plunges After Christmas High

Bull run of the digital currency ends after sharp fall in value in Thursday trading

8 years ago

Amazon Plots ‘Airship Warehouse’ For Drone Deliveries

Patent reveals plan to create ''airborne fulfilment centres' or 'flying warehouses' to act as mothership for drones

8 years ago

Bitcoin Total Value Tops $14bn

Two year high for digital currency as its total value reaches £11.3bn, with most bitcoin trading located in China

8 years ago

Alipay Partners With Barclays And Other EU Financial Firms To Boost European Push

The Chinese payments giant continues to look beyond China with its European expansion

8 years ago

Microsoft Offers Remedies To EC In Bid To Gain £21bn LinkedIn Takeover Approval

Microsoft has offered to sweeten the deal for European regulators so it can get LinkedIn approval, despite Salesforce and other…

8 years ago

Google Showdown With EU Looms After Rejection Of Antitrust Charges

Ballsy move. Search engine officially rejects European Union antitrust charges which could lead to huge penalty

8 years ago

Amazon Profit Growth Disappoints Despite Cloud Strength

Shares in Amazon slump over less than expected profits, despite continuing strength of its AWS division

8 years ago

Majority Of Banks Will Adopt Blockchain Says IBM

Blockchain to be used by majority of financial institutions within three years, as adoption ramps up

8 years ago

Facebook Brings Native Payments To iOS and Android Messenger App

The social networking giant has tweaked its chatbot platform with a suite of features

8 years ago

Oracle Buys NetSuite For £7bn

In one of Oracle's largest ever acquisitions, it will position ERP seller NetSuite in a complimentary role

8 years ago

Mobile Banking Surges As Internet Banking Slows

There's an app for that. Mobile banking surges as BBA warns of a “consumer-led revolution” in personal finance

8 years ago

Microsoft’s Project Bletchley Adds Middleware To Azure Blockchain

Project Bletchley to extend use of Blockchains using middleware and cryptlets for open cloud platforms

9 years ago

Apple Reveals App Store Shakeup To Ease Developer Niggles

Overhaul for App Store rules, but will it ease developer concerns over Apple commissions and app overload?

9 years ago

Amazon Brings Full Supermarket Delivery To The UK

AmazonFresh now available to Prime customers across London, with nationwide expansion coming soon

9 years ago

Worldpay: SMBs Must Adopt New Payment Methods Or Face Extinction

Reluctance to introduce new systems could see up to 60,00 British small businesses could face the chop as consumers ditch…

9 years ago

Are Free Returns Hampering UK E-Commerce?

Barclaycard research claims that managing returns is damaging profits for many British online businesses

9 years ago