Online payments

EBay has been adamant that its auction and payments businesses are best kept united, but if activist investor Carl Icahn succeeds in his mission to split off PayPal, eBay probably would not exit the payments business completely.

The Swedish e-commerce firm Klarna, which offers a service that lets customers make online purchases and pay for them later by invoice, has completed its purchase of the German payment network Sofort.

Online payments provider Payoneer has completed a $25 million Series D financing round it will use to expand through acquisitions and other efforts.

Foodler, a food ordering service, is one of the first to build on top of the "connected apps" technology recently added to the LevelUp mobile wallet.

NakedWines' website, featuring a pastoral northern California winery, looks calm and comforting. But the company, which uses a crowdfunding payments model to reduce steps in wine sales, is trying to stir up some chaos.

Sterling Bancorp in Montebello, N.Y., has signed a long-term merchant servicing agreement with e-commerce and payment processing firm First Data Corp.

The e-commerce technology provider Live Gamer Inc. is incorporating MasterCard's MasterPass digital wallet into its checkout services.

JPMorgan Chase plans to develop a one-click checkout option for its customers when shopping online or through mobile devices.

Activist investor Carl Icahn, who last month proposed that eBay Inc. spin off its PayPal unit and nominated two employees to the board, criticized the online marketplace for "lapses" in corporate governance and asked shareholders to vote in favor of the split.

MasterCard has upgraded its MasterPass digital wallet to enable purchases from within mobile applications.

BlueSnap has developed software designed to help online merchants cut down on checkout abandonment by allowing them to host numerous checkout pages designed for different markets.

Youth payments company Oink is partnering with Discover to add scale to Oink's efforts to adapt its online payment system for in-store use.

PayPal has hired Danese Cooper for the new position of Head of Open Source, a role meant to improve PayPal's engagement with external software engineers.

E-commerce technology provider Payza will offer an outsourced service that allows U.S. merchants to accept card payments directly into their business bank accounts.

Mangopay has begun accepting several new currencies and offering new features to its payment system for marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms as it expands outside of Europe.

MasterCard Inc. and Points International Ltd. will partner to deliver more options for cardholders to redeem, exchange or trade their rewards points.

Shopping and banking on a mobile device has always been clunky, as processes designed for a full screen and keyboard have often been crushed inelegantly to fit a smartphone's much smaller screen.

When the Fast IDentity Alliance was established in 2012 to develop stronger e-commerce security, founding member Nok Nok Labs was already building the foundation for its authentication standard.

A popular Pan-Asian restaurant chain in the U.K. will begin accepting payments for online take-out orders through Visa's V.me digital wallet.

Payveris and D3 Banking are integrating their technology to allow banks and credit unions to use Payveris' digital payments functions with D3 Banking's multichannel digital banking service.