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TSYS has agreed to process PayPal payments made through the eBay subsidiary's partnership with Discover.

David Dove is the new group president of enterprise growth at the ATM operator Cardtronics, which is also launching a new Enterprise Growth Group.

Danish mobile point of sale provider Wallmob is introducing a new tablet stand to a payments market where technology is heavily influenced by the card companies that dominate the region.

Facebook is building on the success of its plastic gift cards by adding merchants that can accept it, but is also planning to eliminate a system that lets the social network's users send mailed gifts.

Vodafone and ICICI Bank are offering the M-Pesa mobile money service in New Delhi and Mumbai, according to reports.

Taulia, which sells business-to-business payments technology, has raised $18 million in new funding.

Online publisher ClickBank is using payment information to help vet the businesses that use its service.

Continuity Software plans to release software to detect weaknesses in the technology that connects data storage to servers, potentially spotting areas where payments data is at risk of being lost.

A newly formed group called the Third Party Payment Processors Association (TPPPA) plans to advocate for third-party payment processors, as well as for partner financial institutions and the merchants and consumers that use their services.

Harris Teeter will pilot Paydiant's mobile wallet as part of its Express Lane online shopping service, starting at a grocery store location in Matthews, N.C.

Moven has contracted with online and mobile payments company Payveris to provide payment services for the financial services startup.

Social payment provider Akimbo has launched a co-branding platform that enables banks and credit unions to offer Visa prepaid cards that connect to Facebook accounts for money movement.

UniRush is finding that the audience for prepaid cards is going well beyond the underbanked. The company, which offers the prepaid RushCard, is responding with a new approach to better appeal to this new audience.

PayPal is paying attention to locally owned stores in its initiative to support in-store payments, but the small-business segment has posed many challenges for companies that try to introduce new technology.

Trustwave and Transaction Network Services (TNS) plan to jointly provide an encryption service designed to shield payment card information.

Motorola Mobility will phase out its use of Xoom branding for its tablet, following a trademark infringement fight with Xoom, an online remittance company.

Micros Systems, which provides services for the hospitality and retail industries, is collaborating with PayPal to provide payments technology.

Payment processor Mercury Payment Systems is collaborating with PayPal to allow Mercury's software developers, resellers and 80,000 mostly local merchant clients to accept PayPal payments in stores.

Schools are increasingly relying on digital payments for the cafeteria and activities — a trend that is proving to be fertile ground for payments technology as frantic parents seek ways to keep their kids properly fed and supplied for their education.

As check registers and passbooks fade into obscurity for a growing number of bank customers, Realex seeks to further modernize payments by putting a human face on accounts.