Technology

As technology gets more complex, the process of making a payment must remain simple, says The Members Group. The vendor's innovation lab is keeping this philosophy in mind when it designs payment applications for new products like Google Glass

Cardfree, a mobile payments provider run by several of the people who designed the successful Starbucks mobile payment app, is using cloud-based technology to simplify the process of deploying its technology as it eyes international markets.

Mobile point of sale provider Appetize is targeting entertainment venues and music festivals, a niche that's often a testing ground for payments technology.

Check, a bill pay app owned by Intuit, has launched a feature some financial institutions have been positioning as a competitive differentiator: the ability to pay paper bills using the smartphone camera.

People's United in Bridgeport, Conn., has started a payments firm in partnership with Vantiv in a move that aided the company's quarterly results.

The 100 new enterprise apps the two companies are creating will target specific "pain points" for the industries.

At first blush, the new Visa Checkout looks a little too similar to the V.me digital wallet it replaces. But in nearly every aspect of redesigning the product, Visa found some excess baggage that needed to go.

Facebook is testing a feature that will let users shop directly from its website.

MasterCard will add support for in-app purchasing to its MasterPass digital wallet next month, and has already signed up customers to deploy the feature.

WEX, a corporate payments company, has closed its acquisition of Evolution1, a Fargo-based firm that produces software to manage health care transactions.