A Comeback for Credit Cards Online Thanks in part to debit card regulation, e-commerce shoppers in the next few years will reverse a recent trend away from credit, according to new research. General-purpose credit cards will capture 40% of online spending in 2011 and 2012, level with 2010, but that …

  A mobile comparison-shopping app that launched a digital wallet late last month says it has signed up more than 10,000 wallet users and is adding new ones at the rate of 2,500 a week in a nascent business that has attracted major players like Google Inc. and Visa Inc. …

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  Gideon Samid • Gideon@AGSgo.com       Protests against the so-called tyranny of the 1% can take several forms. One such form is the Occupy Wall Street movement, with its deep-seated distrust of banks and corporate bailouts. But while OWS may get the headlines, cyber-enthusiasts have found their own …

  By Steve Mott   Scratch most of the proposed or existing wallets, and you’ll find the same payments infrastructure everyone is trying to move beyond. What’s needed is an alternative that benefits consumers and merchants as much as it does banks, networks, and carriers.       The rising …

n By Jane Adler   Retailers and consumers are shifting from plastic to virtual gift cards, drawn by instant availability and ease of distribution. Is the tangible gift card on its way out?       With holiday sales in their sights, retailers are expanding their gift card offerings with …

  We went out to San Francisco last month to take in X.commerce, a conference put on by eBay Inc. for its developer community. These are the people who, among other things, make payment applications work for the sellers, merchants, and processors that work with eBay and its payment entity, …

  By Karen Epper Hoffman   A technique that allows consumers to capture card information with PC or mobile-phone cameras could make for faster, more secure transactions. Is anything wrong with this picture?       A picture may be worth a thousand words, but is a picture also the …

  The mobile-wallet race, which has attracted a slew of entrants in recent months, is about to get more crowded on fears that established merchant acquirers could be elbowed out of the nascent mobile-payments business. Apriva Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based provider of wireless technology for payments, will launch in November …

  PayPal Inc. will pilot its latest move to the point of sale with an undisclosed merchant this quarter, add more merchants early in 2012, and establish merchant pricing for the service over the next three to six months, eBay Inc. chief executive John Donahoe told stock analysts on Wednesday. …