We have exciting new client news to share! Leading multichannel electronic retailer ShopNBC has joined the Litle merchant family. We will be working with ShopNBC on a range of payments management and intelligence solutions across their payment processing operations. We’re particularly thankful to our ShopNBC colleagues Joan Radtke and Dawn Zaremba, and our Litle colleagues Jenn Munson and Lisa Tennant, for helping bringing this announcement to life. LOWELL, Mass. and EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — ShopNBC, a multichannel electronic retailer, and Litle & Co., a leading payment processing company for consumer-direct brands, today announced ShopNBC’s [...]
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November 3, 2011 – The Litle News Report -David Marcus @PayPal vp of mobile sits down with Internet Retailer at the Open Mobile Summit to discuss plans for creating and extending the in-store PayPal experience. PaidContent takes a look at the NFC dance highlighting PayPal’s recent moves and Meanwhile, PayPal parent eBay is working on an iPad optimized version of eBay.com that soon should identify and direct iPad users to the optimized experience. The National Retail Federation‘s top holiday trends for 2011 are out–a lot of good sense from Ellen Davis. Speaking of good sense, our payment evangelist Tom [...]
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October 31, 2011 – The Litle News Report – A new Nielsen survey finds one-third of Americans saying they have no spare cash, as the percentage of those saying they’re in a recession ticks up–Reuters via Huffington Post. This is likely to have a drag on consumer spending well into the new year. What are you doing to make sure you’re getting everything you can out of every payment? Trick or treat? What goes up may come down. Two themes for today. Many issuers who moved quickly to post debit card usage fees for consumers are reversing or [...]
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October 28, 2011 – The Litle News Report – Google and Gilt City will roll out a new partnership first in San Francisco, starting what signals the search giant’s intent to aim Google Offers at the upscale market. Redbox parent Coinstar became one of the first companies to describe the Durbin (Reg II) effect on small-ticket debit transactions–the company expects to pay more debit fees than it has and included that reality in its rationale for hiking the price of a Redbox rental. Is “dotting” replacing banking for some? Prepaid debit card player Green Dot reported financial [...]
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October 25, 2011 – The Litle News Report – Despite solid revenue marks, heavy development investments, including those around Kindle Fire, hit profits at Amazon, sending its shares tumbling after the bell today. “This financial blockade is an existential threat to WikiLeaks,” Julian Assange–that’s the latest word from the WikiLeaks founder, who says that a payment processing embargo could likely shutter the enterprise by year’s end. @Square goes retail as Jack Dorsey announces the availability of Square readers at leading national retailers including Walmart. What do you think? Is this move likely to help Square circle [...]
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October 21, 2011 – The Litle News Report – Does your digital or direct-commerce enterprise need some fresh thinking on how best to process recurring payments? Join our Director of Customer Success, Sayid Shabeer, for the Electronic Retailing Association webinar, “Paving a Richer Road of Recurring Payments” on November 10. Visit Electronicretailing.org for More Information and to Register. Internet Retailer reports from the Mobile Contactless Payment Innovations Summit in Chicago that merchants want to see the beef in mobile payments before making the often-costly investments necessary to facilitate them. New findings of the Research Intelligence Group suggest that [...]
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October 20, 2011 – The Litle News Report – We’re not just working hard to help the merchant community strengthen its #payintel, we’re serving our civic community as well–our featured image is of the men managers from our engineering team at phase 2 of our Habitat for Humanity effort in the greater Lowell area. Phase 1 was led by our women managers from engineering. A new survey from ThreatMetrix and The Ponemon Institute finds that one-third of us don’t trust any government organization to protect us from online fraud and abuse. We should all be thinking about fraud a [...]
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October 19, 2011 – The Litle News Report – Just what you wanted to hear before the busy retail season: poor payments practices could cost top online retailers sales–that’s the summation of a just-out Javelin report–the “2011 Online Retail Payments Scorecard”, Digital Transactions reports. eBay reported financial results today; here are the highlights: PayPal now has 103 million active accounts; PayPal payments from Merchant Services (payments not made for eBay purchases) vs. on-eBay are now 2:1; PayPal revenue grew 32% year-over-year; and PayPal’s net total payment volume (TPV) grew 31% to $29.3 billion in the third quarter. The company [...]
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October 18, 2011 – The Litle News Report – View John Donahue’s take on the future of e-commerce and the role of eBay, PayPal, GSI Commerce etc. therein from his appearance at Web 2.0 this week. Ina Steiner’s ECommerceBytes takes a look at the relationship between eBay and Facebook, including new eBay board member, Facebook executive Katie Mitic. Reuters is all over online flash sales today. First, the French start-up that started the flash sales rage, Vente-Privee, plans to establish its U.S. sales site in mid-November with American Express as its partner and a goal to reach $500 million [...]
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October 14, 2011 – The Litle News Report – Federal legislation introduced this week–and with bipartisan support–would fast-track a system to online sales tax collection–Internet Retailer reports. PayPal Access, an across-the-web consumer identity, launched this week at X.Commerce–the company’s newly-proclaimed e-commerce enablement face. Meantime, Digital Transactions reports that the company is preparing to roll-out physical world PayPal Card (with some neat twists, like an unembossed branded card) and “Empty Hands“, the company’s phone number-pin POS solution. Facebook and eBay‘s GSI Commerce are advancing the “social verbs” trend to include “Want” and “Own” buttons that would allow us to see [...]
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