Digital River, Inc. a leading global provider of Commerce-as-a-Service solutions, has announced that the company will host a free webinar to help businesses learn how to drive online revenue growth with Google Shopping, formerly known as Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs). The webinar, “The Power of Google Shopping,” will be held on June 24, 2014,
There’s a paradox at the heart of mobile payments’ spectacular growth. On a global basis, the use of mobile devices for payments of all kinds is booming: Gartner Group projected worldwide mobile payment transactions for 2013 would total $235.4 billion, an impressive 44% increase over the previous year’s $163.1 billion. Future forecasts for mobile’s growth
Cost, technological complexity, control and lack of education are the major issues facing the growth of internet payment services in Kenya. This is the position taken by Bardo Group, a new entrant in the online payment arena. Operating in the country since January 2014, the company whose head office is in Mauritius is also incorporated
With the world of internet transactions becoming more and more sophisticated, it’s now becoming more important than ever to keep our eyes peeled for secure online payment systems. Whether we’re using online banking or online shopping, internet security is a growing but very relevant concern. Thankfully however, there are a number of advanced online payment
Visa Inc. has released the Visa Everywhere Travel Report for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, which analyzes travel data and cross border spend on all Visa products, including credit, debit and prepaid payment cards. During the four-day opening period of the tournament (June 12 – June 15, 2014), Visa found that international visitors spent more than US$27M
Vodafone has announced a partnership with eTranzact Ghana to allow the network’s subscribers to make voice and data payments electronically via eTranzact’s e-payment platform. Subscribers can pay for postpaid and broadband subscriptions at branches of banks nationwide, online and via mobile – all in real-time. “We provide the technology platform in partnership with Vodafone to
Like all other services on the market – ZimSwitch’s Vpayments, Pay4App, PesaPal, FloCash – at the core, Paynow enables anyone with a website or app to start receiving payments online from major credit cards as well as, for some at least, local bank cards and local mobile money wallets. So yes, Paynow comes to a
The quality of the relationship between a web developer and a payment services provider is one of the key ingredients of a successful e-commerce website, says Michael Richards of SiteMeUp Online Marketing. “Our job is to help our clients grow their business online,” says Richards. “One part of that is building sites that are easy
ACI Worldwide has announced that Ecentric Payment Systems, South Africa’s leading payments processor, is utilizing ACI’s Point to Point Encryption (P2PE) solution to provide a more secure path for consumer transactions initiated at many of the largest retailers in Africa. P2PE is an emerging encryption technique in the payments industry that protects sensitive cardholder data
PagBrasil has now added domestic Debit Cards to its broad set of local payment methods. As the first Payment Service Provider in Brazil to support debit cards of all major banks, PagBrasil takes Brazilian e-commerce to the next level. Debit cards are issued by all major banks in Brazil and are therefore very popular and
