Openings & New Hires at CityGrid, Google Wallet, Groupon, and more…
streetfightmag.com
on 05/10/2013
Excerpt: STREET FIGHT SUMMIT WEST 2013 returns to San Francisco on June 4. Find out who's coming and what's on the agenda.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Coupons, Local, Payments, Places
Struggling Google Wallet reportedly abandons the idea of plastic cards
gigaom.feedsportal.com
on 05/10/2013
Excerpt: It’s been two years since Google launched its mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, but the initiative has been slow to take off. The company had reportedly planned to launch a plastic card that could be used at merchants who don’t accept tap-and-go NFC payments. On Friday, though, AllThingsD reported that Google has abandoned the idea. AllThingsD said the change of plan was included in a memo that also announced the departure of Google Wallet head Osama Bedier. The report cited sources who said that “Google CEO Larry Page abruptly killed the card launch plan after he was displeased with a glitchy run-through last week.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google, Google Wallet, Payments
Failed transaction rates by payment gateways
blog.spreedly.com
on 05/08/2013
Excerpt: Spreedly is a credit card vault in the cloud that allows you to work multiple payment gateways simultaneously or over time. As such, we’re in a unique position to see transactional data across payment gateways for our customers. Failed transactions are an ongoing concern for all of our customers. At best they equal a costly customer support intervention and at worst lost sales. So while many merchants spend time on sites like Feefighters trying to optimize rates paid others understand that failed transactions are potentially the same or more important than the fees they pay. The problem is there is no Feefighters for failure and success rates by payment gateway.... read the full post.
Tags: Aggregate, Aggregation, Payments, Story
SendHub adds Auto Attendant and Android in-app purchase
blog.sendhub.com
on 05/08/2013
Excerpt: Our engineers continue to ship new features for our customers. Last month, we shipped the new Android app, expanded business features, and added unlimited SendHub to SendHub calling. Last week, we launched sound notifications and iPhone in-app purchase. Today, we’re excited to announce two more updates:
Auto Attendant
Direct your calls from your main business phone line to any department. Record a message with numerical codes (ex: Dial 1 for Sales, 2 for Support etc. ) to let the caller know what the dialing options are. When the caller types a number into their phone, they will be automatically transfered to their selection. You need multiple phone lines in order to use “Auto Attendant”.... read the full post.
Tags: Mobile, Payments, Telephony
Now accepting payments by PayPal
www.elastichosts.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: We’re pleased to let you know that we’re now accepting payments by PayPal. Simply log in to your Account, go to Subscriptions or Billing, follow the instructions, under ‘Make your payment’ select ‘Pay with new PayPal’ or ‘Pay with PayPal one-off payment’. Pay with American Express in USD or EUR via PayPal
You can also pay with American Express in USD or EUR via PayPal, to do this:
1. Log in to your Account
2. Go to Subscriptions or Billing and follow the instructions
3. Under ‘Make your payment’ select ‘Pay with new PayPal’, then select ‘Create a PayPal account’, then from the ‘Card Type’ drop-down menu select ‘American Express’. 3.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Payments, PayPal
Square gets ready to move into local commerce, challenging Yelp and Foursquare
gigaom.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Could Square be moving beyond payments and into local commerce? There are a lot of reasons why it would be a smart move for the young payments company. Square is looking to build a recommendation engine in addition to its payments system that could challenge the likes of Foursquare and Yelp as the company moves into the local recommendation space, The Verge reported Friday. “I think we can do something a lot better” than those other apps, Ajit Varma, Square’s director of discovery, said in the interview.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Foursquare, Payments, Square, Yelp
What To Learn From 1 Million Payments On Android?
blog.fortumo.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Fortumo processes hundreds of thousands of payments each day. In order to help developers using Fortumo maximize their revenue, we recently extracted one million payments conducted on Android randomly from our database. Some of the more interesting findings from this data is presented on the infographic to the right – click on it to see a full version. As the infographic does not tell the full story, here are the key takeaways to consider when planning for payments on Android:
Android OS is fragmented: 27. 7% of users make payments on Android Gingerbread (2. 3. 6) – a version of the operating system launched in September 2011. An additional 18% use an even older version of Android.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mobile, Payments, Story
PW Interview: Michael Schonfield of Dwolla API on Innovation Meeting the Payment Web
blog.programmableweb.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Dwolla is an extremely innovative Payment API and the site allows you to transfer money with one of the least payment charges. We have covered Dwolla before here. Here is an interview with Michael Sconfield, Developer Evangelist of Dwolla API. Ajay- Describe the Dwolla API’s success and acceptance among developers. Michael- Moving money has always been hard. And while Stripe has been amazing job at simplifying the job for developers in terms of accepting credit/debit cards, there is still a giant entry barrier to charging bank accounts. Even with cards, developers still need to concern themselves with security issues (such as traffic sniffing, etc).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Payments
Please Welcome Andreessen Horowitz to the Family
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: We believe in this incredibly simple thing — people, businesses, governments, non-profits, and developers should be able to exchange money without paying a percentage to big brand payments companies, and no one should have to wait any longer than absolutely necessary to get access to the money they’ve worked hard to earn. Building and distributing an Internet-based payment network takes time, money, and luck — but mostly, a lot of really smart people and great customers. The investors in Dwolla’s last round helped us find our stride and new customers. Last year was big for us. Our Iowa office flourished from 12 to 30 minds — 42 total across Des Moines, New York, Kansas City, and Omaha.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Funding, Payments, VC
Zapier creates Dwolla trigger
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: One thing we do not have a shortage of in 2013 is web apps. Chances are, you or your business have active accounts in services like Gmail, Freshbooks, Basecamp, MailChimp, GitHub, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, and much more. Wouldn’t it be nice if these apps talked to each other so that all your data was up-to-date across all of your accounts? Zapier is a web app automation service that helps you or your small business keep all of your services up-to-date through simple integrations, without having to shell out thousands of dollars on developer costs. Save hours of updating, copying and pasting by simply setting up an automated ‘Zap,’ or trigger, that will complete the task for you.... read the full post.
Tags: Interoperability, Payments, Reciprocity
Excerpt: It’s been two years since Google launched its mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, but the initiative has been slow to take off. The company had reportedly planned to launch a plastic card that could be used at merchants who don’t accept tap-and-go NFC payments. On Friday, though, AllThingsD reported that Google has abandoned the idea. AllThingsD said the change of plan was included in a memo that also announced the departure of Google Wallet head Osama Bedier. The report cited sources who said that “Google CEO Larry Page abruptly killed the card launch plan after he was displeased with a glitchy run-through last week.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google, Google Wallet, Payments
Failed transaction rates by payment gateways
blog.spreedly.com
on 05/08/2013
Excerpt: Spreedly is a credit card vault in the cloud that allows you to work multiple payment gateways simultaneously or over time. As such, we’re in a unique position to see transactional data across payment gateways for our customers. Failed transactions are an ongoing concern for all of our customers. At best they equal a costly customer support intervention and at worst lost sales. So while many merchants spend time on sites like Feefighters trying to optimize rates paid others understand that failed transactions are potentially the same or more important than the fees they pay. The problem is there is no Feefighters for failure and success rates by payment gateway.... read the full post.
Tags: Aggregate, Aggregation, Payments, Story
SendHub adds Auto Attendant and Android in-app purchase
blog.sendhub.com
on 05/08/2013
Excerpt: Our engineers continue to ship new features for our customers. Last month, we shipped the new Android app, expanded business features, and added unlimited SendHub to SendHub calling. Last week, we launched sound notifications and iPhone in-app purchase. Today, we’re excited to announce two more updates:
Auto Attendant
Direct your calls from your main business phone line to any department. Record a message with numerical codes (ex: Dial 1 for Sales, 2 for Support etc. ) to let the caller know what the dialing options are. When the caller types a number into their phone, they will be automatically transfered to their selection. You need multiple phone lines in order to use “Auto Attendant”.... read the full post.
Tags: Mobile, Payments, Telephony
Now accepting payments by PayPal
www.elastichosts.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: We’re pleased to let you know that we’re now accepting payments by PayPal. Simply log in to your Account, go to Subscriptions or Billing, follow the instructions, under ‘Make your payment’ select ‘Pay with new PayPal’ or ‘Pay with PayPal one-off payment’. Pay with American Express in USD or EUR via PayPal
You can also pay with American Express in USD or EUR via PayPal, to do this:
1. Log in to your Account
2. Go to Subscriptions or Billing and follow the instructions
3. Under ‘Make your payment’ select ‘Pay with new PayPal’, then select ‘Create a PayPal account’, then from the ‘Card Type’ drop-down menu select ‘American Express’. 3.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Payments, PayPal
Square gets ready to move into local commerce, challenging Yelp and Foursquare
gigaom.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Could Square be moving beyond payments and into local commerce? There are a lot of reasons why it would be a smart move for the young payments company. Square is looking to build a recommendation engine in addition to its payments system that could challenge the likes of Foursquare and Yelp as the company moves into the local recommendation space, The Verge reported Friday. “I think we can do something a lot better” than those other apps, Ajit Varma, Square’s director of discovery, said in the interview.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Foursquare, Payments, Square, Yelp
What To Learn From 1 Million Payments On Android?
blog.fortumo.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Fortumo processes hundreds of thousands of payments each day. In order to help developers using Fortumo maximize their revenue, we recently extracted one million payments conducted on Android randomly from our database. Some of the more interesting findings from this data is presented on the infographic to the right – click on it to see a full version. As the infographic does not tell the full story, here are the key takeaways to consider when planning for payments on Android:
Android OS is fragmented: 27. 7% of users make payments on Android Gingerbread (2. 3. 6) – a version of the operating system launched in September 2011. An additional 18% use an even older version of Android.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mobile, Payments, Story
PW Interview: Michael Schonfield of Dwolla API on Innovation Meeting the Payment Web
blog.programmableweb.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Dwolla is an extremely innovative Payment API and the site allows you to transfer money with one of the least payment charges. We have covered Dwolla before here. Here is an interview with Michael Sconfield, Developer Evangelist of Dwolla API. Ajay- Describe the Dwolla API’s success and acceptance among developers. Michael- Moving money has always been hard. And while Stripe has been amazing job at simplifying the job for developers in terms of accepting credit/debit cards, there is still a giant entry barrier to charging bank accounts. Even with cards, developers still need to concern themselves with security issues (such as traffic sniffing, etc).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Payments
Please Welcome Andreessen Horowitz to the Family
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: We believe in this incredibly simple thing — people, businesses, governments, non-profits, and developers should be able to exchange money without paying a percentage to big brand payments companies, and no one should have to wait any longer than absolutely necessary to get access to the money they’ve worked hard to earn. Building and distributing an Internet-based payment network takes time, money, and luck — but mostly, a lot of really smart people and great customers. The investors in Dwolla’s last round helped us find our stride and new customers. Last year was big for us. Our Iowa office flourished from 12 to 30 minds — 42 total across Des Moines, New York, Kansas City, and Omaha.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Funding, Payments, VC
Zapier creates Dwolla trigger
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: One thing we do not have a shortage of in 2013 is web apps. Chances are, you or your business have active accounts in services like Gmail, Freshbooks, Basecamp, MailChimp, GitHub, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, and much more. Wouldn’t it be nice if these apps talked to each other so that all your data was up-to-date across all of your accounts? Zapier is a web app automation service that helps you or your small business keep all of your services up-to-date through simple integrations, without having to shell out thousands of dollars on developer costs. Save hours of updating, copying and pasting by simply setting up an automated ‘Zap,’ or trigger, that will complete the task for you.... read the full post.
Tags: Interoperability, Payments, Reciprocity
Excerpt: Our engineers continue to ship new features for our customers. Last month, we shipped the new Android app, expanded business features, and added unlimited SendHub to SendHub calling. Last week, we launched sound notifications and iPhone in-app purchase. Today, we’re excited to announce two more updates: Auto Attendant Direct your calls from your main business phone line to any department. Record a message with numerical codes (ex: Dial 1 for Sales, 2 for Support etc. ) to let the caller know what the dialing options are. When the caller types a number into their phone, they will be automatically transfered to their selection. You need multiple phone lines in order to use “Auto Attendant”.... read the full post.
Tags: Mobile, Payments, Telephony
Now accepting payments by PayPal
www.elastichosts.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: We’re pleased to let you know that we’re now accepting payments by PayPal. Simply log in to your Account, go to Subscriptions or Billing, follow the instructions, under ‘Make your payment’ select ‘Pay with new PayPal’ or ‘Pay with PayPal one-off payment’. Pay with American Express in USD or EUR via PayPal
You can also pay with American Express in USD or EUR via PayPal, to do this:
1. Log in to your Account
2. Go to Subscriptions or Billing and follow the instructions
3. Under ‘Make your payment’ select ‘Pay with new PayPal’, then select ‘Create a PayPal account’, then from the ‘Card Type’ drop-down menu select ‘American Express’. 3.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Payments, PayPal
Square gets ready to move into local commerce, challenging Yelp and Foursquare
gigaom.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Could Square be moving beyond payments and into local commerce? There are a lot of reasons why it would be a smart move for the young payments company. Square is looking to build a recommendation engine in addition to its payments system that could challenge the likes of Foursquare and Yelp as the company moves into the local recommendation space, The Verge reported Friday. “I think we can do something a lot better” than those other apps, Ajit Varma, Square’s director of discovery, said in the interview.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Foursquare, Payments, Square, Yelp
What To Learn From 1 Million Payments On Android?
blog.fortumo.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Fortumo processes hundreds of thousands of payments each day. In order to help developers using Fortumo maximize their revenue, we recently extracted one million payments conducted on Android randomly from our database. Some of the more interesting findings from this data is presented on the infographic to the right – click on it to see a full version. As the infographic does not tell the full story, here are the key takeaways to consider when planning for payments on Android:
Android OS is fragmented: 27. 7% of users make payments on Android Gingerbread (2. 3. 6) – a version of the operating system launched in September 2011. An additional 18% use an even older version of Android.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mobile, Payments, Story
PW Interview: Michael Schonfield of Dwolla API on Innovation Meeting the Payment Web
blog.programmableweb.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Dwolla is an extremely innovative Payment API and the site allows you to transfer money with one of the least payment charges. We have covered Dwolla before here. Here is an interview with Michael Sconfield, Developer Evangelist of Dwolla API. Ajay- Describe the Dwolla API’s success and acceptance among developers. Michael- Moving money has always been hard. And while Stripe has been amazing job at simplifying the job for developers in terms of accepting credit/debit cards, there is still a giant entry barrier to charging bank accounts. Even with cards, developers still need to concern themselves with security issues (such as traffic sniffing, etc).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Payments
Please Welcome Andreessen Horowitz to the Family
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: We believe in this incredibly simple thing — people, businesses, governments, non-profits, and developers should be able to exchange money without paying a percentage to big brand payments companies, and no one should have to wait any longer than absolutely necessary to get access to the money they’ve worked hard to earn. Building and distributing an Internet-based payment network takes time, money, and luck — but mostly, a lot of really smart people and great customers. The investors in Dwolla’s last round helped us find our stride and new customers. Last year was big for us. Our Iowa office flourished from 12 to 30 minds — 42 total across Des Moines, New York, Kansas City, and Omaha.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Funding, Payments, VC
Zapier creates Dwolla trigger
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: One thing we do not have a shortage of in 2013 is web apps. Chances are, you or your business have active accounts in services like Gmail, Freshbooks, Basecamp, MailChimp, GitHub, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, and much more. Wouldn’t it be nice if these apps talked to each other so that all your data was up-to-date across all of your accounts? Zapier is a web app automation service that helps you or your small business keep all of your services up-to-date through simple integrations, without having to shell out thousands of dollars on developer costs. Save hours of updating, copying and pasting by simply setting up an automated ‘Zap,’ or trigger, that will complete the task for you.... read the full post.
Tags: Interoperability, Payments, Reciprocity
Excerpt: Summary: Could Square be moving beyond payments and into local commerce? There are a lot of reasons why it would be a smart move for the young payments company. Square is looking to build a recommendation engine in addition to its payments system that could challenge the likes of Foursquare and Yelp as the company moves into the local recommendation space, The Verge reported Friday. “I think we can do something a lot better” than those other apps, Ajit Varma, Square’s director of discovery, said in the interview.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Foursquare, Payments, Square, Yelp
What To Learn From 1 Million Payments On Android?
blog.fortumo.com
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Fortumo processes hundreds of thousands of payments each day. In order to help developers using Fortumo maximize their revenue, we recently extracted one million payments conducted on Android randomly from our database. Some of the more interesting findings from this data is presented on the infographic to the right – click on it to see a full version. As the infographic does not tell the full story, here are the key takeaways to consider when planning for payments on Android:
Android OS is fragmented: 27. 7% of users make payments on Android Gingerbread (2. 3. 6) – a version of the operating system launched in September 2011. An additional 18% use an even older version of Android.... read the full post.
Tags: Android, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mobile, Payments, Story
PW Interview: Michael Schonfield of Dwolla API on Innovation Meeting the Payment Web
blog.programmableweb.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Dwolla is an extremely innovative Payment API and the site allows you to transfer money with one of the least payment charges. We have covered Dwolla before here. Here is an interview with Michael Sconfield, Developer Evangelist of Dwolla API. Ajay- Describe the Dwolla API’s success and acceptance among developers. Michael- Moving money has always been hard. And while Stripe has been amazing job at simplifying the job for developers in terms of accepting credit/debit cards, there is still a giant entry barrier to charging bank accounts. Even with cards, developers still need to concern themselves with security issues (such as traffic sniffing, etc).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Payments
Please Welcome Andreessen Horowitz to the Family
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: We believe in this incredibly simple thing — people, businesses, governments, non-profits, and developers should be able to exchange money without paying a percentage to big brand payments companies, and no one should have to wait any longer than absolutely necessary to get access to the money they’ve worked hard to earn. Building and distributing an Internet-based payment network takes time, money, and luck — but mostly, a lot of really smart people and great customers. The investors in Dwolla’s last round helped us find our stride and new customers. Last year was big for us. Our Iowa office flourished from 12 to 30 minds — 42 total across Des Moines, New York, Kansas City, and Omaha.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Funding, Payments, VC
Zapier creates Dwolla trigger
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: One thing we do not have a shortage of in 2013 is web apps. Chances are, you or your business have active accounts in services like Gmail, Freshbooks, Basecamp, MailChimp, GitHub, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, and much more. Wouldn’t it be nice if these apps talked to each other so that all your data was up-to-date across all of your accounts? Zapier is a web app automation service that helps you or your small business keep all of your services up-to-date through simple integrations, without having to shell out thousands of dollars on developer costs. Save hours of updating, copying and pasting by simply setting up an automated ‘Zap,’ or trigger, that will complete the task for you.... read the full post.
Tags: Interoperability, Payments, Reciprocity
Excerpt: Dwolla is an extremely innovative Payment API and the site allows you to transfer money with one of the least payment charges. We have covered Dwolla before here. Here is an interview with Michael Sconfield, Developer Evangelist of Dwolla API. Ajay- Describe the Dwolla API’s success and acceptance among developers. Michael- Moving money has always been hard. And while Stripe has been amazing job at simplifying the job for developers in terms of accepting credit/debit cards, there is still a giant entry barrier to charging bank accounts. Even with cards, developers still need to concern themselves with security issues (such as traffic sniffing, etc).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Payments
Please Welcome Andreessen Horowitz to the Family
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: We believe in this incredibly simple thing — people, businesses, governments, non-profits, and developers should be able to exchange money without paying a percentage to big brand payments companies, and no one should have to wait any longer than absolutely necessary to get access to the money they’ve worked hard to earn. Building and distributing an Internet-based payment network takes time, money, and luck — but mostly, a lot of really smart people and great customers. The investors in Dwolla’s last round helped us find our stride and new customers. Last year was big for us. Our Iowa office flourished from 12 to 30 minds — 42 total across Des Moines, New York, Kansas City, and Omaha.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Funding, Payments, VC
Zapier creates Dwolla trigger
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: One thing we do not have a shortage of in 2013 is web apps. Chances are, you or your business have active accounts in services like Gmail, Freshbooks, Basecamp, MailChimp, GitHub, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, and much more. Wouldn’t it be nice if these apps talked to each other so that all your data was up-to-date across all of your accounts? Zapier is a web app automation service that helps you or your small business keep all of your services up-to-date through simple integrations, without having to shell out thousands of dollars on developer costs. Save hours of updating, copying and pasting by simply setting up an automated ‘Zap,’ or trigger, that will complete the task for you.... read the full post.
Tags: Interoperability, Payments, Reciprocity
Excerpt: One thing we do not have a shortage of in 2013 is web apps. Chances are, you or your business have active accounts in services like Gmail, Freshbooks, Basecamp, MailChimp, GitHub, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, and much more. Wouldn’t it be nice if these apps talked to each other so that all your data was up-to-date across all of your accounts? Zapier is a web app automation service that helps you or your small business keep all of your services up-to-date through simple integrations, without having to shell out thousands of dollars on developer costs. Save hours of updating, copying and pasting by simply setting up an automated ‘Zap,’ or trigger, that will complete the task for you.... read the full post.
Tags: Interoperability, Payments, Reciprocity
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