A few months before its lukewarm IPO late last year, Germany’s Rocket Internet took a $446 million investment from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), the largest telecoms operator in… Read more »
The Berlin clone factory’s simple payments service, Paymill, has picked up €10 million from Holtzbrinck and Sunstone. With Rocket’s many operations pulling in tens of millions in investment each month, the… Read more »
Square is safe for now, as Shuttle is only being launched in Europe, but Adyen’s entrenched position in the online and mobile payments markets give it a great initial boost against… Read more »
With Square still out of the picture, Europe is becoming a battleground for its clones. And, fresh from an American Express cash boost, Sweden’s iZettle is taking on Germany’s Payleven on… Read more »
Never ones to rest on their laurels, the Samwer brothers have launched their copy of hot payments service Stripe, while also partnering up with the cellular carrier Millicom for a fresh… Read more »
Rumors suggest the Samwer brothers are prepping a clone of hot payments startup Stripe to add to their copies of Square and BillMeLater – though it remains to be seen whether… Read more »