Welcome to the new edition of “This week’s news”, a selection of links to interesting articles and news from the worlds of blogs, commerce and e-commerce.
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PayPal is not finished trying to change the way commerce and payments are done: The company, known for its tools to process payments between people and online merchants or eBay sellers, has launched a new mobile app including features to see nearby stores that accept PayPal payments as well as to pay in restaurants. PayPal, owned by eBay, seems to be serious about “offline” payments.
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Here is a completely new approach for delivery of goods bought online: Drones! At least that’s what a Chinese delivery company experiments with, making use of Drones that can carry as much as 6.6 pounds and fly 330 feet in the air (via).
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The online electronics shop Pixmania has been sold by its previous owner, the British retail chain Dixons, to the German company Mutares. The latter paid about 69 million Euro for the online retailer that has making losses for a while.
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BuzzFeed, the growing blog/media outlet known for its compilations of cute animal pictures, is growing strongly, forcing lots of media observers to change their assumption that online publishing and successful business models don’t go well together. Then again, some might not see the often rather short-lived, rather cheaply produced content as the saviour of journalisms in the digital age.