Technology

ACI Worldwide has extended its tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of electronic bill payment provider Official Payments Holdings (OPay).

MasterCard's subsidiary DataCash is adding mobile heft to its merchant acquisition technology through a partnership with Shopgate.

Samsung is broadening its mobile wallet through new partnerships with companies in transportation, coupons and hospitality.

Fiserv is betting its bank network and a user-friendly interface can make electronic payments appealing to small businesses, a frustratingly hard segment to reach with transaction automation.

Merchant Warehouse is trying make the differences between competing mobile payments technology – such as Near Field Communication chips and QR codes – invisible to merchants.

PayPal, having long ago charted the state-by-state regulatory waters for U.S. payments companies, is urging a reform to the rules in an effort that could ultimately help other players in its market.

Stockholm's homeless magazine vendors no longer need to ask if you can spare any krona. They take cards.

Digital content providers will have more options to accept payments through Live Gamer Inc.'s Pay+ product.

Wells Fargo, which was one of the first banks to offer mobile banking apps to business customers in 2007, has been making some updates. The site allows clients to divide tasks across different people — one person might initiate a payment template, another person may make a payment for that template, and a third might approve the payment, for instance.

Intuit is experimenting with payments applications for Google Glass, smartwatches and fitness bands.