Online payments

Apple CEO Tim Cook detailed in an April 23 earnings call what many have believed will be the foundation for Apple's entry into payments: a strong iTunes customer base.

Fueled by a new round of funding, Tradeshift plans to keep changing the way businesses make and receive payments through an open, cloud-based platform that connects a half million companies.

UOL BoaCompra and Ubisoft are partnering to allow online personal computer gamers in Latin America, Portugal, Spain and Turkey greater access to local payment methods.

JPMorgan Chase will build on its developments in tokenization for a digital wallet that it plans to roll out by the end of the year.

A successful e-business has two essential ingredients. It must be easy to make payments, and it must come up quickly when consumers are searching online.

WorldPay opened its first China sales office to help it reach more merchants who accept payments online.

Creditron and MediStreams are teaming to automate payments processing for small to mid-sized health care practices, which typically manage transactions and consumer records manually.

Many e-commerce merchants are not set up to accept the payment methods local to Brazil, Russia, India and China (referred to as the BRIC nations), and BlueSnap aims to work with these merchants through a series of new templates.

Optimal Payments and Caesars Interactive Entertainment have expanded their partnership for online gaming payment processing.

Fitness4Less plans to cut its costs for handling payments by 80% by switching from a third-party payment processor to a system it controls in-house through an application programming interface (API) from Fundtech.

The restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings will use the NCR Aloha Online Ordering system in its 1,000 company-owned and franchised locations in an effort to improve its takeout ordering business.

International translation service Welocalize has found payments to be a particularly tough language to crack, so it's embarking on a technology project that's designed to improve the system it uses to pay its many diverse business partners.

The thaw between eBay Inc. and investor Carl Icahn began a month ago over dinner at the activist's New York City apartment.

You can't make everyone happy. This seems especially true for developing a Web payment standard to appease a vast number of stakeholders and interests.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is developing a product called CashPro BillPay, which combines the bank's CashPro Online treasury management product with Bill.com's payments technology.

eBay has agreed to appoint business executive and former AT&T CEO David Dorman as an independent director, ending its public dispute with investor Carl Icahn, who will withdraw his proposals to separate PayPal from eBay and to place two other people on eBay's board.

Tansler, a "reverse auction" site for renting out properties to vacationers, is preparing to expand from its two test markets to a full global launch. As it does, it needs to make sure it can handle payments from any potential user.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, has introduced a voluntary program that would use largely electronic methods to fix exceptions or errors in bill payments.

Online payment provider BlueSnap has expanded its local payment methods for merchants selling wares in Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Smaller businesses often have trouble finding a product designed for their size, and gift cards are no exception, says Mike Fletcher, general manager of InComm Digital Solutions.