Online payments

E-Commerce startup CaribShopper is fresh off winning an exclusive partnership with eBay to cover its expanding Caribbean footprint as it tackles a market that has a lot of promise, but also challenges in processing digital payments.

Mobile person-to-person payments didn't attract a following until companies like Venmo borrowed ideas from social networking when designing their apps. The same concept may also work for businesses, which need to manage the relationships they have with the clients who owe them money.

Like a lot of alternative payment startups, the light bulb for Marci Lobel-Esrig came from a personal experience that demonstrated how clunky and risky paper-based transactions can be.

Apple Inc. is preparing the first significant overhaul of its MacBook Pro laptop line in over four years, according to people familiar with the matter, using one of its older products to help reverse two quarters of sliding sales.

Beijing-based payment processor PayEase is partnering with KG Inicis, a South Korean payment provider on electronic payments in their respective markets.

Visa and Mastercard are making a lot of noise for initiatives that adapt their existing technology for faster payments in the U.S., but the alternative payment provider Dwolla is moving just as aggressively.

There may be bumps along the way, but PayPal, Mastercard and Visa all share the same goal, according to Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga.

Apple plans to enable Apple Pay on its Safari Web browser by this fall, enabling users to make purchases directly from websites, but its vision for taking Apple Pay to the Web does not seem to extend much further.

International payment services provider Planet Payment and South Africa’s Absa Bank are expanding availability of Planet Payment’s Multi-Currency Pricing Solution through a new partnership with Xpressa, a Johannesburg-based company offering online and point of sale payment solutions.

To hear PayPal CEO Dan Schulman tell it, his company's agreement with Visa this week is a transformative and history-making deal. But in at least one way, PayPal must make sure that history does not repeat itself.