With electronic bill payment providers looking to meet increasing consumer demand for their services, a study released by The Yankee Group found that 55 percent of customers paying bills online are choosing banks to be their middleman. By comparison, the report concluded that just over 10 percent...
Contradicting earlier findings, a report released Monday reported that U.S. consumers are not heading to online bill payment sites because of recent anthrax mail scares. The Jupiter Media Metrix study said that there has been "no noticeable increase in traffic" to the largest online billing sites...
Consumers are becoming more interested in paying their bills online, though the number of people who actually do so remains low, said a report released Monday by the Yankee Group. "Considering the growth we've seen in the past, it's not a bad growth rate," Yankee director Paul Hughes told the E-C...
Somewhere in the zone between idea and execution, e-commerce suffers from a case of diminished returns. Take online bill payment, for example. At the new-idea stage, online billing was going to let every business streamline their operations and offer customers a convenient way to "pay as they go....
CheckFree Corp. (Nasdaq: CKFR) was up US$6.19 at $56.75 early Wednesday after the company, which provides online billing and payment services, reported an increase in sales for the second quarter ended December 31st. Robertson Stephens reportedly raised its rating on CheckFree shares to strong buy ...
Just 17 percent of the 127 million adult Internet users in the United States are sure they want to be able to view their bills online, according to a study released Wednesday by Gartner Group.
Electronic billing and payment provider CheckFree (Nasdaq: CKFR) announced Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of Transpoint LLC in a stock deal valued at around $1 billion (US$).
With an eye toward making online bill paying the norm rather than the exception, Internet billing and payments provider CheckFree Corp. announced Tuesday that it has forged a deal to buy TransPoint in a stock deal valued at well over $1 billion (US$).
Financial software giant Intuit, Inc. and TransPoint, a joint venture between Microsoft and First Data Corp., are teaming together to tackle one of the last bastions of paper-based commerce -- the sending of 63 billion bills yearly to small businesses and consumers.
The B2B market was given a boost this week by the launch of two sites that will specialize in B2B banking and advertising, respectively.
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