The mobile payments space is heating up as PayPal's owner, eBay, ups its estimates for total mobile payments volumes for the year, and Google's Wallet service rolls out across more merchants in the US. eBay CEO John Donahoe says that the volume of...
San Francisco-based near-field communication (NFC) startup Tagstand, which produces and distributes customised NFC stickers, has secured USD1.1m in an initial funding round. Contributed by a host of angel investors and networks, including SV Angel, TEEC...
Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify has closed on a USD15m funding round from Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, Felicis Ventures and Georgian Partners. Shopify helps to power more than 15,000 online shops, including businesses and brands...
Mobile location sharing still faces a number of challenges, whether it's privacy concerns or the battery drain caused by constantly broadcasting your whereabouts. But Echoecho believes it has the answer with a simple service that uses a member's address...
eBay is enabling developers to create shopping apps for retailers on Facebook via a new social commerce platform called X.commerce. Launched in partnership with the social networking giant, X.commerce will let any developer create features such as...
Foursquare has launched a new version of its iPhone app, which includes a real-time, location-based notification system, dubbed Radar, as the firm continues its attempts to increase user engagement. Radar, which is opt-in, harnesses the new features from...
Near-field communication technology (NFC), which is widely expected to bolster mobile payments adoption among consumers, will not be a consumer choice, but become "de facto" by 2015, according to Google’s senior industry manager for mobile, Nick...
US financial services giant American Express (AmEx) plans to release an API for its mobile wallet platform, Serve, in a bid to attract developers as it attempts to capture a large chunk of the mobile payments market. AmEx has already secured partnerships...
The mass adoption of near-field communications (NFC) technology is still at least three years away due to a lack of integration with merchants and consumers, according to PayPal’s communications director, Anuj Nayar. Speaking to TechCrunch, Nayar is...
Mobile developer MocoSpace, which is owned by JNJ Mobile and provides a gaming-focused social network for smartphones, has acquired location-based social games platform Geocade for an undisclosed sum. As part of the deal, Geocade founder and CEO Jim...
A new report from MORE TH>N, based on a study of 10,000 cat and dog owners, reveals how much British pet owners are spending on their beloved companions.
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