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Powa Technologies has launched a system that enables shoppers to respond to in-store advertisements by using their smartphones to buy the advertised product.

MasterCard has added seven new markets in Africa, and now operates in 48 of the continent's 55 markets.

Payments innovation comes quickly, and often from outside the banking industry, leading Associated Bank to create a special procedure to monitor the tech market and customer preferences.

Square has reportedly delayed an initial public offering, which gives the company a chance to build more services that position it for sustainable growth in the future, according to payments consultant Richard Crone.

Isis expects a lot of banks will leverage host card emulation (HCE) to build their own mobile wallets, though the telecom-led mobile payments scheme also hopes the technology will add breadth to its own service.

NakedWines' website, featuring a pastoral northern California winery, looks calm and comforting. But the company, which uses a crowdfunding payments model to reduce steps in wine sales, is trying to stir up some chaos.

UniRush, the prepaid card marketer co-founded by hip hop mogul Russell Simmons, has launched a portfolio of new designs for its RushCards as part of a broader marketing and branding strategy.

Revel Systems and Index are partnering to bring the kind of personalized consumer messaging that's common in e-commerce to the countertops of retail stores.

Square has purchased BookFresh, a company that sells booking and appointment management technology to merchants.

Square is developing an app that allows people to place orders in advance of visits to Square merchants.

After every major Samsung product unveiling this week, PayPal was quick to say: we have an app for that.

PayPal has entered into an agreement that will allow Deutsche Telekom subscribers to make purchases and have them billed to their mobile phone account.

MasterCard and telcommunications technology provider Syniverse are testing a service designed to protect card transactions for travelers by allowing payments only when a user's mobile device is switched on in a specific location.

MasterCard, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica Deutschland, Vodafone and Trevica are partnering on a mobile payments initiative in Germany, where interoperability issues have long hampered the mobile commerce market.

PayPal will support mobile fingerprint authentication on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone, enabling Samsung customers to use their fingers to log in to shop at merchants who accept PayPal.

Forbes Media signed a licensing agreement with Lotaris that will allow the Swiss technology company the rights to the name Forbes Digital Commerce.

Mobile payments have transitioned from "concept to adoption," according to the MasterCard and Prime Research's second annual mobile payments study.

PayPal will allow users of Samsung's newly announced smartwatches to check in at PayPal merchants and execute transactions at their stores.

HP plans to sell a tablet-based point of sale system that integrates payments with a number of other business operations.

MasterCard has upgraded its MasterPass digital wallet to enable purchases from within mobile applications.