Articles in Personal Finance
Technology could potentially bring a lot of innovation in the banking space but how innovation can eventually happen without changing old infrastructures and regulations?
What is a social payment? Using a social network does not make it “social”, according to the interesting article written by Russ Jones on PAYMENTSVIEWS
gWallet, a recently launched company that partners with both brands and game developers to bring users virtual currency offers, is launching a new format for offers. Called the Brand Bar, the offers to earn virtual currency appears in a bar across the top of a social game on Facebook.
Yesterday Facebook disclosed another component of the company’s payment strategy: a partnership with PayPal.
In my view this a wise choice because building a world class payment solution from scratch would have been very challenging and a competition with such a big player (PayPal has now more than 81 million accounts) very stiff.
The 75 million monthly active users playing Zynga’s FarmVille have a now new way to buy virtual tractors and seeds; they’ll be able to “Pay With Facebook.”
Blippy, a kind of Twitter meets Yodlee service, allows users to stream their purchase activity to the startup’s website. Users can choose to publish data from credit and debit cards, bank accounts, and/or directly from purchase activity at ecommerce partners sites . It’s the ecommerce transaction stream that provides the richest data describing the actual product purchased or rented rather than just a dollar total.


