Online payments

Apple Inc. is reportedly working with Boku to bring a carrier billing option to iTunes users in Russia.

The "last mile" of a business-to-business payment, as funds reach a destination bank account, needs common standards and transparency as more companies eliminate paper checks and move to digital transactions.

Digital money transfer provider Xoom has launched a service for sending funds to Bangladesh.

Payments technology company BlueSnap has launched its mobile checkout gateway, the Powered Buy Platform.

Cloud-based payroll, payments and business analytics platform CloudPay has brought on Brian Radin as its chief revenue officer.

While consumers hunt for deals during the holiday online shopping frenzy, fraudsters are doing the same — using the credentials they've hoarded from any number of data breaches the past year.

Amazon.com is big enough to try things that other retailers would find too risky. Over the years it has developed many groundbreaking payment technologies and revolutionized e-commerce, but not all of its ideas have done well.

The U.S. is a long way from widespread adoption of EMV, but security analysts say the boom in online shopping—plus a surge in consumers' use of mobile devices for holiday purchases—will make it easier for fraudsters to hide their moves as they redirect their efforts from retail to online channels.

To counter the rising rate of e-commerce fraud, U.K.-based myPINpad plans to provide a virtual PIN pad for mobile-generated online transactions through the VocaLink network for the next five years.

Black Friday will mark a new milestone this year, when mobile devices for the first time will account for about half of all online purchases during the first weekend of the holiday shopping frenzy, according to a new study.