Bailey Reutzel

Facebook Connect, which lets Internet users log into other websites by typing their Facebook credentials, seems to be everywhere. But perhaps it should not be in mobile payments, SCVNGR's LevelUp has decided.

Every couple weeks a new group of mainstream merchants and payments providers begins accepting Bitcoin, the popular and often controversial digital currency.

Bitcoin's earliest adopters used to launch scathing criticism at the U.S. for being the first to regulate digital currency in 2012, but their ire seems to have cooled off.

In 2014 retailers will focus on reshaping their businesses on products such as merchant-led mobile wallets, which help them engage with consumers throughout the shopping experience.

Thing Daemon Inc.'s Fancy.com, a crowd-curated online marketplace, reportedly provided a peek at what commerce on Twitter could look like in the future.

Seven years ago, the armored truck company Brink's began adding payments features to its product list. It's one of the many unlikely candidates making a name for itself in the payments world.

It's still unclear what New York's planned "BitLicense" actually is, but the New York Department of Financial Services says its license is meant to encourage Bitcoin businesses to operate and innovate in the state.

It's still unclear what New York's planned "BitLicense" actually is, but the New York Department of Financial Services says its license is meant to encourage Bitcoin businesses to operate and innovate in the state.

Does Bitcoin require its own set of regulations, or can businesses that trade in the virtual currency and payment system be policed effectively under existing rules?

For Welcome to Moe's Inc., a franchisee of Moe's Southwest Grill, migrating to iMobile3's PassMarket mobile loyalty program improved customer engagement and reduced the fraud that ran rampant with an earlier paper-based loyalty program.

Paydiant has received a patent for technology that lets consumers withdraw cash from ATMs using their smartphones, a feature that it says should appeal to banks.

Paydiant has received a patent covering technology that allows consumers to withdraw cash out of ATMs with their smartphones, a feature that it says should appeal to banks.

Coinmkt, a digital currency exchange based in Los Angeles, has opened an account with E-Trade to allow users to deposit U.S. dollars into the exchange as wire transfers from U.S. bank accounts.

EBay CEO John Donahoe provided a glimpse into PayPal's ongoing strategy for mobile payments in defending his company's conclusion that it should not spin off the subsidiary.

EBay CEO John Donahoe provided a glimpse into PayPal's ongoing strategy for mobile payments in defending his company's conclusion that it should not spin off the subsidiary.

For Welcome to Moe's Inc., a franchisee of Moe's Southwest Grill, migrating to iMobile3's PassMarket mobile loyalty program improved customer engagement and reduced the fraud that ran rampant with an earlier paper-based loyalty program.

EBay Inc. has written a new policy on virtual currency sales, set to go into effect for U.K. customers in early February.

Bitcoin may no longer be a niche currency. A growing number of merchants, seeing the advantages of Bitcoin's near real-time, low-cost payment network, are beginning to accept the digital currency. Soon, many more merchants could start drinking the cryptocurrency Kool-Aid.

Receipts, typically a scrap of paper many shoppers throw away, can be easily reimagined as a tool to improve customer engagement, says Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square.

The EMV Migration Forum has recruited a test group of merchants, retailers and issuers to begin handling EMV-chip cards in Orlando, Fla., early to spot and fix problems before the card networks' deadline of October 2015.