e-Business rapidly changing

Server and storage virtualisation technology is changing the world of e-commerce, reveals One stop click.

According to IMRWorld, the host of the e-Business Strategy Europe conference in Lille, "technology is rapidly changing commerce, the economy and society".

However, the organisation noted that in many instances, consumers are more tech savvy and knowledgeable than business owners, who must adopt online commerce technology if they are to survive and thrive.

PayPal has introduced new means of electronically transferring payments on the Web, both within Web pages and a new, small infrastructure of PayPal apps, reports PCMag.

Credit-card company Discover also says that it has created Money Messenger with PayPal, a tool that uses PayPal's new Adaptive Payments to send money to virtually anyone.

PayPal revealed this at its PayPal X Innovation conference, where the company announced a partnership to buy virtual goods via Facebook as well as improvements to mobile-payment services.

As e-Bay prepares for a critical holiday shopping season, the company plans to unveil new elements of an overhaul in how shoppers find and buy products on its Web site.

Behind the new look, which includes e-Bay's first major home-page redesign in nearly four years, is an urgent effort to close a technology gap that has caused the onetime Web pioneer to lag behind rivals like Amazon.com.

"One of the most important things we had to do was become more of a technology-driven company," says e-Bay Chief Executive John Donahoe.