Technology

Payments processor mopay is now offering an HTML5 in-app billing solution for online merchants doing business in India.

Groupon Inc. is expanding its in-store payments business with a new service that lets merchants identify customers with the company's coupons and enable them to pay for purchases using Apple Inc.'s iPad mini.

MasterCard has agreed to purchase Opus Software's electronic payment and card technology subsidiary ElectraCard Services.

Yapital Financial AG is seeking bank partners in Europe for its mobile payment app, but it's insisting on a long courtship.

Host Card Emulation technology, which allows mobile devices to emulate a secure Near Field Communication transaction, is catching on fast so fast that it would be unwise for any company to ignore it, says ABNote CEO Steven Singer.

Users of new technology often invite derision—Google Glass wearers are "Glassholes," iPhone devotees are "iSheep"—and mobile wallet users may soon be the next target of such ridicule.

Old-school payments networks are looking for ways to speed their pathways. Tech companies are looking to blaze new trails. In the end, however, all roads lead back to one issue — security.

Square has added and removed many features over its few short years as it refines its mobile-pay pitch in an effort to win more merchants. Its removal of the Square Wallet app was the latest of many revisions to the company's strategy.

U.S. banks and other companies may already be closer to EMV compliance than they realize, says Mansour Karimzadeh, managing director and chief technology officer of payment consultant and technology company SCIL.

The Dutch startup Eaze has begun the public beta of its "Nod to Pay" app for the Google Glass headset and has added support for two Bitcoin wallets.