David Heun

If they haven't already, retailers should begin getting a clearer picture of how to deploy a mobile wallet and loyalty program to their customers.

EBay's Magento e-commerce application for retailers has integrated Airtag software to allow those retailers to expand into mobile commerce.

Alaric Systems Ltd. will add myPinPad software to its card-not-present security offerings for payments service providers.

Revel Systems Inc. is launching a system that adds security to swiped card payments by displaying the accountholder's photo on its iPad-based point of sale terminal.

Gene Cornfield, chief marketing officer for digital gift card provider CashStar Inc., recently sat down with PaymentsSource to discuss how Starbucks, Apple and other companies are setting the tone for the next developments in mobile commerce.

Google announced this week a partnership with Equity Bank in Kenya to offer a Near Field Communication-based prepaid card for bus travelers.

Consumers in Iceland will soon have access to contactless payment technology using Visa cards or smartphones.

ControlScan Inc. says it has developed a way to eliminate the technology and security challenges merchants face when trying to expand into mobile or online commerce.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc.'s executive chairman and CEO, Robert Carr, leaves little doubt as to where he sees his company's mobile pay future heading — attached to the wagon of mobile-payment pioneers such as LevelUp.

E-commerce company LivingSocial revealed last week it endured a data breach in which attackers accessed its users' encrypted passwords. And even though no payment data was exposed, cardholders should still be concerned.

Merchants have a vastly different receptiveness and understanding of the U.S. conversion to EMV-chip payment cards, and VeriFone is taking a diverse approach to appealing to them all.

Nintendo built a Near Field Communication chip into the tablet-like controller of the Wii U game console it launched late last year, and the video-game giant says it is now considering using that chip for payments.

China's state-backed UnionPay payment network seeks a larger presence in the U.S., starting April 29 with a new prepaid card that banks in Asian-American communities will market to consumers who travel to China and other foreign countries, according to news reports.

Payvia Inc.'s newest clients — Skype, OnCam and Bright — demonstrate a growing appetite for charging payments to consumers' phone bills.

GoPago Inc., a San Francisco-based mobile payment provider last week hired Steve Elefant as its chief strategy officer. Elefant, a senior strategic consultant at Google Inc. for the past year, served as Heartland Payment Systems’ chief information officer until 2011.

A consumer watchdog group in Canada is speaking out in support of the major card brands in response to an argument brought by the country's Competition Bureau on behalf of retailers.

ZooZ, an Israel-based mobile payment company, has secured $2 million in a Series A financing round from supporters XSeed Capital, Lool Ventures and Rhodium. The company's funding now stands at $3.5 million.

Mobile point of sale systems could expand card acceptance by adding as much as 19 million merchants, resulting in a potential $1.1 trillion uptick in annual card payments, Javelin Strategy and Research says in a new report.

Roam Data Inc. has updated its mobile app to allow merchants to operate a complete point of sale system from smartphones or tablets.

American Express Co. is issuing EMV chip-and-signature cards to its corporate card customers in the U.S. starting in the first half of 2013.