Technology

Unless you’ve been completely sequestered away from technology news as well as mainstream news, you probably have heard of the new Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus as well as Apple’s new point of sale ecosystem called Apple Pay.

American Express' recent moves show it wants to score more points with its Serve digital wallet platform and become a software provider alongside its place as a card network.

Dekkers Davidson, CEO of the Merchant Customer Exchange, wants to create the same type of disruption in mobile payments as Uber did in the taxi world.

In a sign of the success PayPal has had in marketing its digital wallet, slightly more than half of consumers surveyed said they would choose PayPal over the other mobile payment options available for holiday shopping in stores.

Xoom Corp., a digital payments company based in San Francisco, has launched a mobile bill-pay service in Latin America.

BlueSnap says its partnership with First Data Corp. will result in fewer declined transactions for e-commerce merchants, thus convincing more of them to turn to the online gateway provider to support global sales.

Payment technology processor Acculynk has agreed to buy the intellectual property of PayPlum.

Inte Q has named Steven Kietz, a veteran of financial services companies such as Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, its president.

Electronic commerce has made our world closer than ever.

Toronto's new express train will provide a mobile ticketing option, though whether that technology can transfer to the rest of the city's transit system remains to be seen.