Sean Sposito

A blog about a sister's death and the insurance company's unwillingness to pay made big waves via Tumblr and cast a spotlight on social media sites beyond Facebook and Twitter.

The the Long Island Railroad and the Metro-North Rail Road in New York are running trials that will allow customers to redeem fare purchases with the scan of a bar code.

If transportation is a leading indicator of payments technology, the joint project between Metro North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road could be a boost for bar-code-based payments.

In a play to develop a mobile wallet of their own, a joint venture of retailers is working to attract banks to help it provide a merchant-friendly alternative to Isis, PayPal and Google Wallet.

In a plan to develop a mobile wallet of their own, a joint venture of retailers — including Wal-Mart and Target — is working with banks to provide a merchant-friendly alternative to Isis, PayPal and Google Wallet.

In the two years since its introduction, Wells Fargo customers roughly 12 percent of eligible ATM transactions result in a digital receipt.

Smartphones will drive digital commerce, which in turn will increase transactions over the next five years and drive more than $730 billion worth of purchases online and in stores, according to a report from Juniper Research.

Research firm expects mobile payments to constitute 30% of e-commerce within five years.

American Express will put its reloadable prepaid card on Walgreen Co. shelves by the end of the week.

Campus card provider Higher One, along with The Bancorp Bank, its former bank partner, have settled a lawsuit with the FDIC stemming from several "alleged unfair and deceptive practices."

Navy Army Community Credit Union cites familiarity, Fiserv’s wide array of services.

ViVOtech has sold its ViVOpay payment-hardware business, the company said Monday in a notice on its website.

ViVOtech has sold its ViVOpay payment-hardware business, the company said Monday in a notice on its website.

More than 200 web developers and designers pulled all-nighters in New York to build digital commerce applications over the weekend. The event yielded 37 innovative technology "hacks" in about 30 hours.

Google is putting itself in the middle of mobile payment transactions, rather than just passing them on, which raises many questions.

Google is changing nearly everything about how it handles transactions.

Technology could allow banks to display three-dimensional views of risk and customer data, for instance.

Google today updated its mobile wallet to allow payments from any credit or debit card, a move that fundamentally changes the company's approach to working with issuing banks.

A fresh update to Google's mobile wallet allows users to make payments from any credit or debit card, a move that fundamentally changes the company's approach to working with issuing banks.

Banno, a Cedar Falls, Iowa-based company, is deploying websites that change based on user preferences and device.