e-commerce

In the course of a mass iFrame injection attack, nearly 100,000 web pages for e-commerce sites on the open source OS Commerce platform were compromised with malware, reports security firm Armorize.

As estimated the attacks appear to come from Ukraine and they aim to infect the websites with malware to further attack visitors to these e-commerce websites, says Wayne Huang, chief technology officer at Armorize.

Amazon said that it will be using its ever increasing revenue to expand into areas such as Web content and cloud computing rather than boost its margins.

This week the Internet retailing giant reported a surge in its quarterly revenue gained on sales of Kindle e-book reader and other electronics, forecasting better than expected profits for the third quarter.

While Amazon saw big gains from growth in e-commerce its margins remained narrow as a result of heavy spending on distribution, technology and digital content.

Baidu Inc made a forecast for its revenues for the third quarter, outpacing well ahead Wall Street's expectations as large advertisers increased spending.

A Chinese top search engine has seen a significant growth of its profits as it has focused on online video and e-commerce over the past time.

Seeing large flows of money from big advertising customers in the largest Internet market in the world Baidu posted $252.6 million net profit in the second quarter of 2011.

appMobi is introducing cloudKey authentication solution and its immediate integration into appMobi’s 1Touch “single touch” payment system. A combination of 1Touch and cloudKey provides a secure and streamlined e-commerce experience, says the company statement.

A global payments provider WorldPay has entered a partnership with the National Business Awards to launch the Online Business of the Year category. The award category is meant for 2011 award ceremony that is dedicated to the contribution of e-commerce to the UK economic recovery. WorldPay will be the title sponsor for the award.

Ukash, the Global eMoney Network, has announced that leading industry figure David Hunter has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. The former eMoney head of ClickandBuy and Paysafecard will be taking over with immediate effect.

Moneta Corp. a known online payment processor has announced about changing of the company name. Now the company is called Rialto Commerce and its consumer-facing payment product for e-retailers - Rialto Pay.

Barclaycard has announced the launch of new secure online payment processing system, Barclaycard SmartPay.

Barclaycard SmartPay was designed to help European retailers compete with domestic retailers in foreign markets and reduce the number of transactions where customers do not complete their purchase. 

Today we’ve decided to explore internet and e-commerce infrastructure of Vatican. Everyone knows Vatican as a landlocked sovereign city-state, populated by only 826 people. The territory of the city-state consists of a landlocked enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. Vatican City represents an extremely ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state, ruled by the Bishop of Rome—the Pope. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergymen of various national origins.

JetPay, a payment processing company that provides businesses with flexible integration, ease of use, and the ability to adapt to virtually any web site and application, has announced its partnership with Acculynk, delivering software-only services for online transactions security, over the offering of PaySecure Internet PIN debit solution.

We are to consider today Internet and e-commerce industry of the world's largest island with over 56,000 people populated it, Greenland that has its capital in Nuuk. The island represents an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Despite, geographically and ethnically Greenland associated with the continent of North America, politically and historically this Arctic island nation has close ties with Europe.

Benin is an African state Internet and e-commerce industry of which we are to study today. Benin is a country in West Africa, bordering Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Benin, that has its capital in Porto-Novo, is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation with substantial employment and income arising from subsistence farming. Country’s economy remains underdeveloped and mostly dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Today we are to explore Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of the smallest sovereign state in the South America inhabited by slightly over 481,000 people, Suriname. The country is located to the north of the mainland between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west; country’s southern border is shared with Brazil and the northern border is the Atlantic coast. Suriname is the only Dutch-speaking region in the world not a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands or Belgium and the only state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language.

We are turning to Africa today, in order to consider internet and e-commerce infrastructure of Senegal. That is a country south of the Sénégal River in western Africa, externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south; internally it almost completely surrounds The Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, exempting Gambia's short Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Fiji, an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising an archipelago of more than 332 islands, of which 110 are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 islets, is the country Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to explore today. Its immediate neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north.