Tencent has released new software for smartphones and smartwatches that pushes the eCommerce company further into payments and stacks it against its top competitors Google, Alibaba and Xiaomi. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

PayPal’s Singapore competition, 2C2P, a payment services provider, is making headlines as it closed a $7 million deal in Series C funding, bringing its total capital raised to $10 million, according to e27, a Singapore-based business news service. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The major breaches that happened at Target in 2013, or Home Depot in 2014, have spurred a strong alliance between the small banks and credit unions who’ve joined together to make their case for recovering hundreds of millions of dollars…

Twitter’s “in-the-moment” commerce strategy is part of its plan to further monetize the social networking service, but Twitter still seems to be unable to find a way to expand its commerce plans quickly enough to turn around a profit. Source:…

The number of Google Now partners is going up.  Goolge premiered the Google Now cards program in January of this year with 40 third-party partners; another 70 are now looping in, bringing the total pool of Now partners up to…

So what does the most highly valued and buzzed about start-up in the world do?  Well if you’re Uber, you decide to start racing with the big boys over at Amazon and Google in the same-day delivery race. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

It is about to get easier to pay with PayPal – as the company has announced the rollout of One Touch™ Web. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

More than 4,400 people dead from Nepal earthquake as workers search through rubble and officials talk of “near total destruction” in areas near epicenter. Source: edition.cnn.com

Set to be live by the end of the year, the new voice recognition capabilities should save customers’ time while increasing overall security. Source: http://www.biometricupdate.com

A method of credit card fraud prevention, utilizing the iris scan image converted to an encrypted mathematical value as stated above, as a means of authentication and identification prior to the authorization of the credit card transaction. Source: http://www.freshpatents.com