Partnership between Quinone and Econtext Brings Bitcoins to 20,000 Retailers in Japan An epic deal between Quinone, a bitcoin exchange and Econtext, payment network will enable bitcoin to be used as a payment option for 20,000 online and physical retailers in Japan. All the merchants using payment processing service of…
The value of bitcoin may have gone down, but its interest has surged. A budding startup in the US has developed an app that will allow Hong Kong coffee drinkers to get their favorite drinks from Starbucks and pay using bitcoins Customers will get a discount of up to twenty…
This is no news that Amazon has so far been reluctant in accepting Bitcoin payments for their products online. They also don’t intend to start this service any time soon. However, regardless of their reluctance and forward action in enabling customers to make purchases using Bitcoins, there have been cases…
CheapWindowsVPS has joined the tens of thousands of online retailors that accept Bitcoin as a payment method. By accepting Bitcoin for VPS, you can rapidly deploy Windows based servers that can be configured to facilitate a variety of different tasks. CheapWindowsVPS provides virtual private servers, virtual dedicated servers and bare…
GMO Payment entranceway (GMO-PG) has partnered with bitFlyer to supply its forty eight,000 on-line merchants the choice to just accept bitcoin beginning later this year. Founded in 1995, GMO-PG makes a speciality of providing payment services to e-commerce platforms and mobile content suppliers. information from Forbes suggests that the corporate,…
Alibaba’s IPO (Initial Public Offering) is set to take place today at 11.00 AM ET on NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) under the ticker BABA. The IPO of Alibaba will become the largest IPO of a company in the United States, ever. Alibaba Group will price its shares at 68…
A MELBOURNE company unveiled on Thursday the country’s first bitcoin debit card, which will allow users to spend the digital currency at ATMs and eftpos terminals. Users can pre-load the card with bitcoin, which is converted to Australian dollars. The company will exchange bitcoin at a rate based on the day’s…
Overstock.com was the first major online retailer to embrace bitcoin, accepting payments in the digital currency here in the U.S. beginning in early January. And now, it’s the first to accommodate bitcoin across the globe. Early this morning, the Salt Lake City-based company started accepting bitcoin payments in all foreign…
eBay Inc. is finally going to start experimenting with Bitcoin. On Monday, eBay announced that Braintree, the company’s payment processor subsidiary, would begin accepting the virtual currency in the “coming months.” According to Braintree CEO Bill Ready, who was speaking at San Francisco’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the company has partnered…
Africa has huge population that has not been able to access banking and financial services even in the 21st century; however, two Bitcoin voucher services providers Azteco, and Xoin are now trying to reach to the same unbanked population. The British Bitcoin voucher service Azteco and South African startup Xoin…
