Payments Network Dwolla Raises $16.5 Million Series C From Andreessen Horowitz & Others, Expands To San Francisco
techcrunch.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to becoming a professional blogger, Sarah worked in I. T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software.... read the full post.
Tags: Dwolla, Funding, Investment
Payments Startups Take The Data, Design And Development Route To Reengineer The Credit-Card Business
techcrunch.com
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: Braintree, Square and fellow disruptors are applying web and mobile technologies to overhaul the economic model of the payment industry. In the next chapter of the Internet’s disintermediation of large markets, payments are shifting to be efficient and pervasive over-the-top (OTP) mobile services. Understandably these companies are attracting a lot of money from top-tier VCs, as well as a lot of media attention. Visa has invested in Square and American Express has invested in Square competitor Izettle presumably to buy a ring-side seat to look through the “door to disruptive innovation at the bottom of the market,” which Clay Christensen describes in “The Innovator’s Dilemma.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Braintree, Dwolla, Payment, Payments, PayPal, Stripe
WunWun is creating an on-demand ecosystem
blog.dwolla.com
on 03/03/2013
Excerpt: This is part of a series called “Integration Highlights. ” In this series, we highlight entrepreneurs and projects that use Dwolla to create new experiences, ideas and possibilities. You can find this story and others on Dwolla’s Pinterest board. Enjoy! WunWun didn’t set out to disrupt the messenger industry, but that’s exactly what they’re doing. Open the WunWun app, and the first thing you see is, “What can we help you with? ” From deliveries to services, WunWun becomes your personal helper. They’ve set themselves apart from companies like TaskRabbit by creating an on-demand network of helpers, instead of posting jobs and waiting for people to bid on them.... read the full post.
Tags: Communication, Dwolla, Mobile, Payment, Task Management, Tasking
Allowd: Solving a big problem for Dwolla merchants
blog.dwolla.com
on 01/02/2013
Excerpt: This is part of a series called “Integration Highlights“. In this series, we highlight entrepreneurs and projects that use Dwolla to create new experiences, ideas and possibilities. You can find this story and others on Dwolla’s Pinterest board. Enjoy! “Love the cost savings of Dwolla, but hesitant to share your login with employees? Use Allowd to create a secure portal where team members can view your Dwolla transactions. ”
Good news for merchants using Dwolla – it’s now possible to create sub-accounts for your employees and give them as much (or as little) access as they need to your company’s Dwolla account.... read the full post.
Tags: Allowd, API-Evangelist, Dwolla, Payment
Now Live: The Integration Portal
blog.dwolla.com
on 07/10/2012
Excerpt: First things first, if you’re a developer, I highly suggest you check out this dev blog post on http://dev. dwolla. com/. This post is meant to be more of an introduction of sorts for all of our non-technical business development, product and design friends looking to learn if a Dwolla integration is right for their company, app or project. One of the most beautiful and powerful things about Dwolla is its web-driven and open structure, or its ability to play nicely with a host of other Internet technologies. Bundled into a series of accessible end points, Dwolla’s network and technologies are available to all in what’s called an API, or Application Programming Interface (great explanatory video of open vs. closed for us laymen).... read the full post.
Tags: Dwolla, Non-Developers, Payment, Payments
Excerpt: Braintree, Square and fellow disruptors are applying web and mobile technologies to overhaul the economic model of the payment industry. In the next chapter of the Internet’s disintermediation of large markets, payments are shifting to be efficient and pervasive over-the-top (OTP) mobile services. Understandably these companies are attracting a lot of money from top-tier VCs, as well as a lot of media attention. Visa has invested in Square and American Express has invested in Square competitor Izettle presumably to buy a ring-side seat to look through the “door to disruptive innovation at the bottom of the market,” which Clay Christensen describes in “The Innovator’s Dilemma.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Braintree, Dwolla, Payment, Payments, PayPal, Stripe
WunWun is creating an on-demand ecosystem
blog.dwolla.com
on 03/03/2013
Excerpt: This is part of a series called “Integration Highlights. ” In this series, we highlight entrepreneurs and projects that use Dwolla to create new experiences, ideas and possibilities. You can find this story and others on Dwolla’s Pinterest board. Enjoy! WunWun didn’t set out to disrupt the messenger industry, but that’s exactly what they’re doing. Open the WunWun app, and the first thing you see is, “What can we help you with? ” From deliveries to services, WunWun becomes your personal helper. They’ve set themselves apart from companies like TaskRabbit by creating an on-demand network of helpers, instead of posting jobs and waiting for people to bid on them.... read the full post.
Tags: Communication, Dwolla, Mobile, Payment, Task Management, Tasking
Allowd: Solving a big problem for Dwolla merchants
blog.dwolla.com
on 01/02/2013
Excerpt: This is part of a series called “Integration Highlights“. In this series, we highlight entrepreneurs and projects that use Dwolla to create new experiences, ideas and possibilities. You can find this story and others on Dwolla’s Pinterest board. Enjoy! “Love the cost savings of Dwolla, but hesitant to share your login with employees? Use Allowd to create a secure portal where team members can view your Dwolla transactions. ”
Good news for merchants using Dwolla – it’s now possible to create sub-accounts for your employees and give them as much (or as little) access as they need to your company’s Dwolla account.... read the full post.
Tags: Allowd, API-Evangelist, Dwolla, Payment
Now Live: The Integration Portal
blog.dwolla.com
on 07/10/2012
Excerpt: First things first, if you’re a developer, I highly suggest you check out this dev blog post on http://dev. dwolla. com/. This post is meant to be more of an introduction of sorts for all of our non-technical business development, product and design friends looking to learn if a Dwolla integration is right for their company, app or project. One of the most beautiful and powerful things about Dwolla is its web-driven and open structure, or its ability to play nicely with a host of other Internet technologies. Bundled into a series of accessible end points, Dwolla’s network and technologies are available to all in what’s called an API, or Application Programming Interface (great explanatory video of open vs. closed for us laymen).... read the full post.
Tags: Dwolla, Non-Developers, Payment, Payments
Excerpt: This is part of a series called “Integration Highlights“. In this series, we highlight entrepreneurs and projects that use Dwolla to create new experiences, ideas and possibilities. You can find this story and others on Dwolla’s Pinterest board. Enjoy! “Love the cost savings of Dwolla, but hesitant to share your login with employees? Use Allowd to create a secure portal where team members can view your Dwolla transactions. ” Good news for merchants using Dwolla – it’s now possible to create sub-accounts for your employees and give them as much (or as little) access as they need to your company’s Dwolla account.... read the full post.
Tags: Allowd, API-Evangelist, Dwolla, Payment
