Online payments

Online electronics retailer Newegg is now accepting bitcoin payments from Canadian customers.

Nearly 20 years ago, Visa executives celebrated a milestone for the card brand's global VisaNet payments network. The system could finally handle 1,000 transaction messages per second.

Citigroup Inc. has begun signing up consumers to use Citi Wallet, which is based on MasterCard's MasterPass digital wallet.

Payza, a payment processor and digital wallet provider based in London, has launched an eGift product for customers in the United States.

London-based Currency Cloud plans to expand its payment offerings to the U.S. to serve businesses that are having a hard time adding automated cross-border transactions to their workflows.

EBay Inc.'s stock price rose as much as 6.8 percent today after The Information reported the company could spin off its payment unit as soon as next year.

Payza, a payment processor and digital wallet provider based in London, has released a tool that allows its merchant clients to accept payments from shoppers who have not previously enrolled with Payza.

Payment software provider Oxigen Services India Pvt. Ltd. plans to update its mobile wallet with a virtual Visa card for online payments, a move that furthers both its financial inclusion efforts and its bank partnerships.

Navicure introduced a new patient payment platform that allows health care organizations to facilitate bill collections.

Square is under pressure to adapt to the onslaught of competition from the likes of Amazon, PayPal, Groupon and Fiserv, all of which have applied their own spin to the mobile card reader concept. Square has recently made a number of moves to improve its offerings and its image.

First Data is bringing a new electronic payment offering to Brazil in collaboration with Bancoob, the banking arm of the credit union cooperative system Sicoob.

Companies like PayPal and Square reward hackers with "bug bounties" for finding and reporting vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by fraudsters, and their welcoming attitude toward the hacking community is paying off.

The launch of Visa Checkout has attracted more interest from consumers than the launch of its earlier incarnation, V.me, according to PNC Bank.

Simon Xie, an Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder and second-biggest shareholder of its finance affiliate that owns Alipay, may become a billionaire as the estimate for the value of the electronic-payment company rose.

Payment technology company ACI Worldwide has completed its $205 million purchase of the security vendor Retail Decisions Plc (ReD).

Web.com, a small-business Web design and marketing company, will promote MasterCard's Simplify Commerce platform in an expansion of the companies' e-commerce partnership.

Online payment provider paysafecard is offering its customers a plastic prepaid MasterCard card to extend the company's e-commerce offering into the physical retail world.

Fleet card provider FleetCor's planning a major push into B2B electronic payments, and hopes to get a substantial boost from its planned $3.45 billion acquisition of Comdata.

MasterCard is offering its inControl system in the Asia-Pacific region through First Data, allowing corporations and consumers to manage their online purchases.

Social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook, have been enticing but sometimes hostile environments for payments innovation. Some startups are pushing past the platform providers to appeal directly to their users.