28 posts and columns on transactions
Square Discontinues Monthly Flat-Rate Plan
The company says that the plan, designed for large businesses, was actually hindering growth for some of them.PayPal Unveils Yet Another Way to Pay in Stores. Now It Has to Get People to Use It.
If only shoppers wanted to use their phones for payments as much as credit card competitors want them to.One Less Groupon Clone: J.P. Morgan Chase Acquires Bloomspot
J.P. Morgan Chase is acquiring Bloomspot, one of the smaller daily deals companies in the U.S.Amazon Quietly Jumps Into Another Business: Lending Money to Sellers
The new program, called Amazon Lending, is being offered to existing Amazon sellers who are looking to purchase additional inventory and increase sales.Groupon’s Mason Says New Payments Business Will Help Sell More Deals
Groupon’s stock is trading 12 percent higher after the daily deals company announced its move into the payments business earlier this week.Online Commerce Trend: More Spending, Smaller Purchases
The average checkout size is shrinking, even though more people spent more money online. Why? Here are three reasons.With No-Yahoo-CEO Pledge, David Kenny Back in the Strategic Fray
What will David Kenny do? Maybe get something cooking in the whole what-will-Yahoo-do stakes, now that one of Yahoo’s more active board members is back.Voices
The M-Commerce Tipping Point Is Now
With the age of the PC declared officially over–smartphones outsold PCs for the first time in 4Q 2010–American retailers are all asking the same question: When will the m-commerce tipping point arrive? The answer is, it’s happening now.Voices