1:49 PM Intuit (INTU) has acquired the assets of Payvment, a startup offering e-commerce infrastructure and ad-buying services to ~200K merchants relying on Facebook (FB). Payvment's customers have been transferred to rival Ecwid. Payvment's failure is raising fresh questions about Facebook's own ability to profit from e-commerce referral traffic. Though its Gifts product has seen some early uptake, skeptics argue Facebook's news feed (unlike Google searches) doesn't lend itself well to driving e-commerce activity. Read comments
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