e-Commerce

Facebook is planning to launch a new crypto currency for users to buy goods online. Over the last year it has been recruiting banks, payment companies and merchants to accept and facilitate the [...]

Google reported sharply slowing revenue growth for its digital ads business as new competitors including card-linked marketing platforms and Amazon, Walmart.com gain traction. Google’s first [...]

Wirecard is a leading global payments platform and processor that focuses on merchants in-store and on-line payments processing needs. Wirecard is publicly traded and currently has a market cap [...]

Alliance Data’s Epsillon Business has agreed to be sold for over $4 billion to Publicis. Alliance Data Systems Corporation is a publicly traded provider of loyalty and marketing services, such [...]

Apple unveiled its much-anticipated credit card that fully integrates with Apple Pay. The Apple Card offers cash back on purchases, 1% with the physical card—made from titanium with no visible [...]

Worldpay one of the top 10 payment acquirers and processors in the US announced a deal to enable Amazon Pay as payment option alongside MasterCard, Discover, Visa and other popular payment methods.

Instagram, Facebook’s photo sharing platform, is enabling consumers to tap and buy products right from the app. Checkout, the new shopping feature, circumvents traditional merchants and allows [...]

This E-Linx issue highlights industry news about calls for the break up of Facebook, Fiserv's acquisition of First Data, Google's EU fine, Visa and Mastercard's denied entry into China, and [...]

According to a report by Bloomberg News, Walmart has recently withdrawn from Google’s Shopping Actions, an e-commerce service, as well as Google Express, a delivery service.