Stripe

It’ll be up to card not present payment processors to ease the path toward acceptance of cryptocurrencies for subscriptions, and it could be another five years or more before any of that comes to fruition, writes Georg Richter, founder and CEO of OceanX.

Bitcoin has lost touch with its original mission of being an alternative decentralized currency, and Stripe has decided that it is no longer worth supporting for payments.

For merchants, a processor that’s a tad better, a bit more comprehensive, can make an enormous difference, writes Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

Android Wear introduced a new version of its technology earlier this year.

In India, dLocal wants to enable global e-commerce companies to accept payments from and make payments to India to serve consumers, contractors and supply chains.

Since e-commerce merchants often operate without walls, it makes little sense to operate with borders.

Stripe will collaborate with WeChat and Alipay to make it easier for merchants around the world to accept payments from Chinese consumers.

The company has added six new markets in Europe, where it has already established a beachhead for its e-commerce technology.

Financial services companies such as PayPal, Lydia and RBC are testing chatbots on platforms such as Slack and Facebook Messenger.

When Stripe Inc. launched its e-commerce payment services in 2011, the San Francisco-based startup wasn't presenting itself as a major threat to online giant PayPal — and even with its new $9.2 billion valuation, it still might choose a different path.