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Gomez Finds Web Transactions Held Up Well During the Holiday Crush

Response times and success rates for transactions on retailers' Web sites varied somewhat during the crush of the recent holiday shopping season, but for the most part transaction performance held up pretty well, according to a report released today by Gomez Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based company that measures Internet performance. …

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Credit Card Delinquencies Didn’t Faze Holiday Shoppers

The highest delinquency rate ever seen on credit cards did little to dampen transactions on the cards during the critical holiday season. The American Bankers Association reports today that late payments on credit cards reached a record 4.09% of all accounts in the third quarter of 2003, up from 4.04% …

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Suit Settled, eBay and Tumbleweed Target Online Security

Tumbleweed Communications Corp. hopes to move forward with eBay Inc. and its PayPal person-to-person transaction unit on solutions for online transaction and e-mail security issues now that the companies have settled patent-infringement lawsuits Tumbleweed initiated in May and September 2002. In the suits, filed originally against PayPal and then against …

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Record Online Spending Brings Record Strains

The record transaction volume recorded online this holiday shopping season also put record strains on Web sites' ability to handle the load. According to data from Keynote Systems Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based site-performance management company, both response time and success rate for Web transactions improved in the week ending …

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iPayment Looks to Agent Banks for Growth

Nashville, Tenn.-based independent sales organization iPayment Inc. expects on Wednesday to close on its $55 million cash acquisition of an agent-bank portfolio from First Data Corp. The portfolio consists of 18,000 small merchant accounts controlled by 170 agent banks and generating about $4 billion in annual card volume. First Data …

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Wal-Mart’s 88-Cent Siren Song

The market for ultra-low-ticket song downloads from online music stores continues to heat up. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched a service on its Web-based operation, Walmart.com USA LLC, that offers single songs for 88 cents, or 11 cents cheaper than what has become the 99-cent standard price for songs available …

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Yahoo’s PayDirect Enters the Overseas Remittance Market

Yahoo Finance, whose PayDirect person-to-person payment service has been in operation domestically for three years, is now offering PayDirect International to allow electronic remittances from domestic users to recipients overseas. Announced this week, the new international payment service is an effort by Yahoo Finance, a unit of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo …

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FDC Shareholders Don’t Have to Okay Revised Concord Terms

First Data Corp. will not need to seek the approval of its shareholders for the revised terms announced Monday under which it will acquire Concord EFS Inc. First Data announced today it has been informed by the New York Stock Exchange that the NYSE will not require the Denver-based processor …

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