Sites that post mug shots humiliate people and damage their career prospects — and engage in a form of blackmail by demanding people pay to take them down. Google, MasterCard and others are starting to respond. Read more at GigaOM »
“Iranian Living Room” (which is not produced by Iranians) documents domestic scenes in the country during its recent elections. PayPal admits its system for automatically blocking sales of sanctions-busting Iranian items shouldn’t target books. Read more at GigaOM »
A company that aims to release ebooks into the Creative Commons through crowdfunding has had to halt operations after Amazon Payments withdrew support for crowdfunding payments. Kickstarter, which also uses Amazon Payments, remains unaffected for now. Read more »
Losing your phone is never fun. But losing your wallet is much worse, and that’s one argument where those trying to roll the mobile-payments… Read more »
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money fr… Read more »
The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as i… Read more »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) faced a pretty big whack of upheavals in 2011 — not least of which was the none-too-quiet departure of their outspoken f… Read more »
China has become an increasingly important part of Apple’s empire, and today it looks like the company has taken one more step to growing th… Read more »
We are still far from seeing simple, wave-and-pay NFC as a ubiquitous technology for mobile payments, and even further from seeing consumers… Read more »
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment a… Read more »
There aren’t a lot of phones on the market which can serve as digital currency, but PayPal demonstrated Wednesday how its users will be able… Read more »
A big move in mobile payments today: eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has announced that it is buying the mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Android: A day after a video surfaced of Nokia’s first Windows Pho… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) held a high-profile launch event for its new mobile payment system today. But now it looks like another big player in th… Read more »
Amazon’s patent on its “one-click” checkout system first made headlines over a decade ago, and became a notorious “Exhibit A” for those who… Read more »
Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer co… Read more »
PayPal is set to launch a new product specifically designed to facilitate micropayments — a move that could set it up as a more attractive… Read more »
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to… Read more »
Honolulu Civil Beat, Pierre Omidyar’s experiment in local subscription-supported journalism, went fully live today, complete with a first-ed… Read more »
Virtual goods and micro-transactions have been driving the billion-dollar online games industry across Asia for years. And deals like EA’s $… Read more »
PayPal has spent the last decade trying to standardize (and dominate) the transactional side of e-commerce — and now it’s got its eyes on t… Read more »
eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) used its annual shareholder meeting today to lay out plans for its PayPal division, which includes pushing heavily into mo… Read more »
eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) CEO John Donohoe plans to highlight the promise of its PayPal payments unit during the company’s annual meeting March 11,… Read more »
