E-Commerce

Restaurant point-of-sale provider Toast Inc. has further expanded its agreement with ride-sharing technology provider Uber Technologies Inc. to help restaurants in the United States and Canada better manage digital ordering, enhance the guest experience, attract new customers, and increase sales. New tools the two companies plan to create include customer …

Digital platforms are reshaping expectations for how companies manage the transaction experience for customers of all sizes. The shift in business buying is changing both the speed of commerce and the scale of opportunity for providers. The B2B e-commerce market is barreling toward $3 trillion by 2027, according to Forrester …

The Fiserv Small Business Index remained unmoved at 148 in October from September. Both year-over-year sales and transactions were up in October, up 1.5% and 1.1%, respectively, but this was the slowest annual sales growth rate since February, Fiserv Inc. said. Consumers pulled back on their spending at restaurants and other discretionary …

The VerifiedX Foundation has launched Butterfly, a social-payment and commerce platform that allows users to send and receive VFX, the native VerifiedX cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, USDT, and USDC coins—instantly via text message, email, or any social-media handle. The new service combines the ease of the Venmo and Zelle peer-to-peer payments networks with the sovereignty of blockchain …

The fintech Atomic Financial announced its launch of PayDirect, a service that it says lets consumers view, manage, and pay bills directly from a bank or fintech app. Zip Co Ltd., a payments-app developer, announced it is working with Forage Technology Corp., a processor for government benefits, on a plan to waive …

A day after Fiserv Inc. released disappointing third-quarter results, stock analysts are showing little confidence in the payments company’s ability to make a course correction. In a note to investors, William Blair & Co. analyst Andrew W. Jeffrey said the financial-services firm can “no longer recommend Fiserv given what we …

Transactions, revenues and net income at Mastercard Inc. all increased by double digits in the third quarter ending Sept. 30 as consumer and business spending remained strong despite new tariffs and reports that consumers are feeling increasingly nervous about the economy. “We continued to see healthy consumer and business spending …

PayPal Inc. has agreed to provide its artificial-intelligence technology to enable product discovery and payments for merchants using Wix.com Ltd.’s commerce platform. Payment card manufacturer CPI Card Group Inc. agreed to integrate into its prepaid card program the SafeToBuy technology from Australia-based prepaid card technology provider Karta. The technology embeds critical data in …

An increasing focus on stablecoin initiatives, agentic commerce, and payments innovation helped propel Visa Inc. to a strong 2025 fiscal year and helped the card network to meet its goal of becoming a “hyperscaler” for companies in the payment ecosystem, Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney told analysts during Visa’s 2025 …

Paze, the online checkout service from Early Warning Services LLC, may usher in a new phase for the service in 2026. That’s the suggestion from Eric Hoffman, chief partnerships officer at EWS. “2025 was a big year in building partnerships and we’re excited to see the fruits of those efforts,” …