Technology

Gilbarco Veeder-Root plans to develop a fueling and marketing system the leverages location-based and mobile technology, relying on Bluetooth beacons from Qualcomm.

Google has made an attempt to bolster its mobile wallet by opening it to more consumers and incentivizing them to use it, but it is unlikely that these changes will help the in-store payment component.

The Merchant Customer Exchange, a retailer-driven mobile commerce initiative, announced a partnership that sheds some more light on how its mobile wallet will eventually look.

More consumers are making purchases from their tablets, according to a new study from Javelin Strategy & Research.

PNC Merchant Services has begun offering Clover Station, a tablet-based point of sale system, to restaurant owners and managers.

A popular Pan-Asian restaurant chain in the U.K. will begin accepting payments for online take-out orders through Visa's V.me digital wallet.

Former Google and PayPal payments executive Osama Bedier has joined WePay as the payment company makes a major push to court developers.

Mobile commerce provider CardFree, whose executives have ties to Starbucks' successful mobile payments app, has received a U.S. patent for technology that integrates reservation, payment pre-authorization and transaction management with a merchant's point of sale system.

Daniel Lee has been accepting Bitcoin at his family's seven retail stores in Fort Greene, Brooklyn since March 2013 by having customers send the digital currency to wallet addresses he manages.

While global shipments of mobile point of sale devices reached 8.4 million units in 2013—a 53% increase over 2012—more than 1.3 million of the devices went unused during the year, according to new research from ISH Technology.