Sean Sposito

Visa Inc. will soon display its advertising through social networking software designed by Skype Inc. and Meebo Inc. for desktop computers and smartphones.

Cardtronics Inc. announced Monday an agreement to provide Intuit Inc.'s Pay Card and Refund Card customers surcharge-free access to its fleet of ATMs.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has added an automated clearing house feature to its Express Funds remote deposit service.

Hypercom Corp. announced Wednesday a 400% rise in profit in its fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, from the same period in 2009.

VeriFone Systems Inc. said merchants' security concerns are driving development and sales of new payment hardware.

Fiserv Inc. is demonstrating its commitment to expansion of its mobile banking services through its purchase of longtime partner Mobile Commerce Ltd.

VeriFone Systems said Monday that Arcos Dorados, a company that manages McDonald's restaurants in Latin America, would use its payment software.

Hypercom Corp.'s preview of its fourth-quarter earnings raised fears about the viability of its deal to sell itself to VeriFone Systems Inc. in the second half of the year.

NCR Corp. is adding a reporting tool to its ATM fraud software to help banks detect when the machines have been infected by a virus.

Hypercom Corp., which is being sold to VeriFone Systems Inc., said in a regulatory filing Monday that the combined companies should generate nearly $2 billion in revenue next year.

Diebold Inc. said a goodwill impairment stemming from acquisitions it made in Europe a decade ago underlies a fourth-quarter loss, though it is having greater success in the U.S. with smaller banks.

Diebold Inc. said Monday that it swung to a fourth quarter loss of $118.8 million, down from a profit of $3.2 million a year earlier.

Cardtronics Inc. executives cast their company as a potential beneficiary of financial reform that, as proposed, would require issuers to attach more than one unaffiliated payment network to debit cards.

MasterCard Inc. launched a beta version of its developer's portal early last month. The Purchase, N.Y., company invited only about 1,000 programmers to participate, a MasterCard spokeswoman said Thursday.

Cardtronics announced Thursday a 375% increase in profits to $8 million for the fourth quarter from a year earlier, driven by growing revenue and higher margins.

A deal for online payment platform PlaySpan gives Visa the technology to support a bigger role in growing markets such as online games, smartphone apps and social media.

Antimalware vendor Trusteer describes how it fends off hostile attacks from SpyEye bug; More Florida ATMs are being compromised by card-skimming devices; and more.

CyberSource, a subsidiary of Visa, announced Tuesday that Airways of Mexico would use its fraud management software.

NCR Corp. said investments in improving its technology are helping it recover from the downturn by sparking more demand from retail banks.

NCR Corp. said Thursday that it swung to a profit of $38 million in the fourth quarter from a loss of $57 million a year earlier.