E-Commerce Platform Payelp Expands Mobile Coverage for Merchants by Partnering with Fortumo

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International business and payment platform Payelp Global has announced its partnership and integration with Fortumo, which offers merchants “one-click” mobile payments in 79 countries worldwide. Fortumo, which has offices in the U.S. (San Francisco), Europe, China and India, not only offers mobile payments in the U.S. and Europe, but focuses on emerging regions and “hard-to-monetize”

Zimbogini Online Store Partners with Zimpost

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Zimbabwean  e-commerce startup Zimbogini officially launched a revamped e-commerce website with new features at an event held in Harare towards the end of last year. Although Zimbogini has been around for a while now, the (re)launch was primarily centred around the new payment features and partners they now have on board. Zimbogini.com is now vPayments

B2C E-Commerce in Africa Driven by Improved Infrastructure and an Emerging Middle Class

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Secondary market research publisher yStats.com has released findings in its “Africa B2C E-Commerce Report – 2013” indicating that the growing Internet penetration, the spread of mobile technology and improvement of payment and delivery infrastructure are factors that can boost E-Commerce on the continent. yStats.com CEO Yücel Yelken states “E-Commerce has a high potential in Africa

yubo Implements SecureNet’s PayOS for Simplified eCommerce Payments

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SecureNet, a payment technology operating system powering omnichannel payments, has announced that yubo, a customizable lunchbox design company featured on ABC’s Shark Tank, has implemented SecureNet’s PayOS as its eCommerce transaction processing solution. yubo’s children’s lunchbox line is customizable with tailored designs, colors and functionality so that kids can reflect their unique personality and ever-evolving

Major Nordic Banks Support Launch of MasterPass in Sweden

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Nordea, SEB and Swedbank – three of the leading banks in the Nordics, are now confirmed to launch digital wallets enabled by MasterPass™, the digital platform from MasterCard®. Built on MasterPass technology and functionality, the banks will offer their own digital wallets to their customers, giving them a true global solution for easy shopping online

Groupon Launches Free Holiday Gifting for Local Businesses

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Groupon has announced two new solutions for last-minute shoppers: the Grouponvelope and the digital gift voucher. With these new options, Groupon lets local merchants who do not have a gift card program reach millions of customers looking for last-minute but thoughtful holiday gift ideas. “Many merchants don’t have the resources to invest in the same

South Africans Embrace Online Shopping and Cyber Monday

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This year saw a rise in online spending across the globe, with USA reporting a 20% increase in online shopping on Cyber Monday as shoppers snubbed physical retail stores in favour of missing out on the holiday queues. Locally South Africans are coming to the party, with recent report showing that 9.5% of South Africans

Christmas Goes Omni-Channel in the US

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With Christmas around the corner many retailers are looking forward to the increase in sales but some retailers are looking at Omni-channel options to optimise shoppers holiday spend. Recent studies show that there are large gains to be made by retailers who diversify the options available to their shoppers. There has been a major shift

Digital Gifting Company CashStar Introduces Tactile Unwrapping

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CashStar, the digital gifting company preferred by the world’s leading brands, has unveiled Tactile Unwrapping, the newest module in the CashStar platform. These new capabilities make digital gifting even more personalized and engaging by replicating the gift unwrapping experience in the digital medium. The module can be configured to allow purchasers to select wrapping paper,

Amazon Coins Lets Customers Gift Apps, Games and In-App Items

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Just in time for the holiday season, Amazon announced that customers can purchase Amazon Coins and gift them for apps, games and in-app items in the Amazon Appstore and on Kindle Fire. Customers simply purchase a bundle of Coins on Amazon.com and an email is sent to the recipient to redeem. To celebrate the launch,