Technology

PayPal is extending its "One Touch" payment technology, obtained through its 2013 purchase of Braintree, to the Web, giving the eBay unit a significant new offering as it prepares to split off on its own.

Bank branches are continuing to lose their luster as consumers rely on online and mobile channels, according to a new report.

Companies like Square, Roam and Leaf revolutionized small business by turning mobile devices into wireless cash registers, and Visa predicts the same concept can accelerate financial inclusion.

Mobile apps have become an ingrained part of air travel, providing everything from boarding passes to entertainment, and are increasingly handling payments as well.

Apple has had a rough time signing major merchants to accept Apple Pay in stores, but it has finally won the support of Best Buy, a nationwide retailer that swore off Near Field Communication-based payments years ago.

NXT-ID will start shipping its Wocket wallets to customers at the start of May, over a year after it first announced the mobile payment device.

Apple Pay, slowly and steadily, is gaining ground as a preferred method of mobile payment. And it may have a lot to do with the steady release of Apple products that support its mobile wallet.

Verifone's Vin D'Agostino insists there's a special mix of cloud technology and hardware that can address all of merchants' needs — but only if they are willing to buy it all at once.

Discover, the only major U.S. card network that did not support Apple Pay at the mobile wallet's launch, has inked a deal with Apple, eliminating some of the fragmentation in the mobile wallet's deployment.

Success seems to come easily for Starbucks' mobile payment efforts, but only because the company did its heavy lifting elsewhere.