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Fancy A New iPhone? You Can Now Buy One With PayPal
Apple Store users can now use PayPal to pay for their devices
Amazon Glitch Leaves Thousands Of Items On Sale For Just 1p
Software glitch puts items such as toys and clothes at bargain prices on Amazon Marketplace
UK Digital Economy Is Speeding Ahead Of Other Nations, Ofcom Reveals
Record levels of online advertising and spending recorded in the UK, coupled with high broadband take-up, usage and superfast broadband coverage
IT Life: Fashionable Technology
Net-A-Porter CIO Hugh Fahy tells us about his life in retail IT and love of the Spectrum ZX81
72 Percent Of UK Retailers Are Not Cyber Secure This Christmas
Despite Christmas surges around Black Friday and Cyber Monday, large amounts of customer data was worryingly available to hackers, Sophos study finds
Picking Up Some Art Or Antiques? Make Us An Offer, Says Amazon
'Make An Offer' option now applies to more than 150,000 items on Amazon Marketplace
Virgin Money Signs Up Monitise For Mobile And Online Payments
Partnership follows Monitise deal with Santander, Telefonica, IBM and Mastercard last week
Braintree Brings Single Touch Shopping To Your Mobile Phone
PayPal-owned company extends reach of OneTouch service to nine new territories, including the UK
Amazon Calls In Robot Helpers To Deal With Christmas Rush
Amazon has deployed 15,000 robots at its US warehouses to boost capacity and reduce shipping times
London Needs More Drones To Beat Its Traffic Problems, Says Boris Johnson
Drones could prove the answer to the hordes of delivery vehicles clogging the capital’s streets, Mayor believes
Products Are Dead, Long Live The Services Economy! – Avangate
Consumers are buying the way they want to buy, and retailers need to adapt to this, Avangate tells TechWeek Europe
Monitise Gets Major Investment For Mobile Money Expansion
Santander, Telefónica and Mastercard contribute to £49.2m investment, as Monitise also announces further IBM collaboration
Argos Opens Underground Collect Store To Speed Up Digital Shopping
Company also launches eReceipts scheme as part of its online transformation
Over Half Of UK Shoppers Now Regularly Using Digital Wallets
Skrill survey finds major generational gap in paying habits, with younger consumers more likely to embrace new technology
Amazon Teams Up With The Post Office To Ensure No Late Deliveries This Christmas
Over 10,500 Post Office branches added to delivery options
The Scary Truth About Credit Cards The Banks Don’t Want You To Know
And 5 top tips on how to use bank cards safely when shopping online this Christmas
HSBC Rolls Out Paym Mobile Payments Service For Business Customers
Companies will now be able to receive money directly to their accounts using just a phone number
IT Life: Takeaway Special
Just Eat CTO Carlos Morgado gives us his recipe for IT success
Why Banks Should Take Notice Of Startup Innovation In The Fintech Industry
Toby Young, CTO at Ebury, tells TechWeek Europe what fintech trends banks should be keeping up with
First Bus Picks Up Barclays Pingit For Mobile Ticket Payments
All aboard for mobile ticketing across First’s UK bus network using Pingit app
Contactless Payments “Now Close To Becoming Mainstream” In The UK, Says Worldpay
Number of contactless transactions rose by more than 150 percent in the last six months, with supermarket adoption helping spur on growth
Snapcash Lets You Snapchat Money To Your Friends
Snapchat partners with payments provider Square to provide fast payments alongside self-destructing selfies
Apple’s App Store Signs Up Chinese Expansion Deal
Apple confirms deal with UnionPay, China’s only domestic banking card provider, to let customers pay for apps
Mobile And Tablet Payments To Top Two Billion By 2017
Growth of banking and online shopping, particularly in developing markets, mean mobile payments are set to soar, Juniper Research predicts
Mastercard Offers Contactless Card Users Free Friday Tube Travel
Customers using their contactless Mastercard to pay for travel on London Underground this 'Fare Free Friday' will have their journey refunded
Mastercard – We’re Killing Off The Password
Payments company says the end is nigh for password authentication thanks to updated 3DS 2.0 protocol
Sainsbury’s Mobile Shopping App Does Away With Checkout Queuing
Company says new app will dramatically cut time it takes to do your weekly shop