Technology

Visa and Pizza Hut are banking on pizza ordering and payment in the future to take place inside of automobiles.

By agreeing to acquire mobile payment provider Paydiant, e-commerce giant PayPal has vaulted itself back into the in-store mobile wallet landscape in which Apple, Google, Samsung and others have commanded recent attention.

Samsung Pay's ability to allow mobile payments while mimicking plastic card transactions will make it harder for rivals and merchants to strike back by disabling NFC at the point of sale when the system debuts later this year.

A Google executive has confirmed the company has established Android Pay, a previously rumored platform upon which developers can build payments into applications.

Bank of the West has joined the early adopters of technology that lets customers pay bills by photographing them with their smartphones, potentially reinforcing the customer-retention benefits of online bill pay.

CO-OP Financial Services has vastly expanded its real time person to person payments reach, adding a credit union-led alternative to the faster payment models being pursued by banks.

First American Payment Systems is bringing another mobile point of sale system into the crowded marketplace of companies seeking small-merchant business.

Two years ago, Isis (Softcard) and Google Wallet were the only two ‘viable’ wallets in the market, and I use the word ‘viable’ loosely.

Samsung Electronics Co. rebooted its premium Galaxy smartphone line with the S6 and S6 Edge, featuring payment software that makes them compatible with about 90% of card readers.

Uber Technologies, which operates a cab service and often partners with mobile payment providers to execute transactions, said an unauthorized third party accessed the company’s database last year and may have taken data on about 50,000 drivers.