Kevin Woodward

Mobile-payments company Apriva announced this week the launch of the AprivaPay and AprivaPay Professional mobile-payment services. The move means Apriva resellers, including ISOs, banks and merchant acquirers, now can resell Apriva’s integrated mobile-payment product.

Global Payments Inc.’s North American merchant-services revenue grew 10.5% during the payment processor’s second quarter. ISOs largely drove the growth with their “strong performance ... as evidenced by U.S. transaction growth of 19%,” Paul Garcia, Global chairman and CEO, said during a conference call with analysts last week.

Hypercom Corp. is offering merchants the option of not offering customers paper receipts. The Scottsdale, Ariz., company announced Wednesday that it would incorporate software from TransactionTree Inc. into its popular Optimum L4150 point of sale terminal, enabling retailers to deliver receipts by e-mail.

VeriFone Holdings Inc.’s efforts to drive payment card acceptance in taxis and at the gas pump appear to be paying off, VeriFone CEO Douglas G. Bergeron told analysts during a conference call this week discussing the point-of-sale terminal makers fourth quarter earnings.

VeriFone Holdings Inc.'s efforts to drive payment card acceptance in taxis and at the gas pump are boosting its earnings. The terminal company reported Monday that it swung to a profit of $3.7 million in its fourth fiscal quarter, from a $366.6 million loss a year earlier.

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VeriFone Holdings Inc. plans to offer direct support to merchant clients of Heartland Payment Systems Inc. that are using its payment terminals, over Heartland's objections.

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Heartland Payment Systems' merchant clients may be caught in the middle of a legal dispute between the merchant processor and VeriFone Holdings, which provides payment terminals to most of Heartland's clients.

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Hypercom Corp. announced a new unit Tuesday to promote the use of encryption technology within the payments industry. Its rival, VeriFone Holdings Inc., announced a partnership the same day with the processor Chase Paymentech LLC to offer its own encryption product to Paymentech's merchant clients.