Technology

Udi's, which operates a group of cafes and pizza establishments in the Denver area, just launched a customized mobile payments program with the goal of obtaining the data that is normally invisible to it when patrons pay with credit and debit cards.

Some of the legal woes Schnucks Markets Inc. has faced since suffering a data breach from December 2012 through March 2013 were eased this month in a St. Louis court.

Signifyd, a company co-founded by PayPal and FedEx veteran Rajesh Ramanand, is launching an e-commerce fraud platform that attempts to combine shoppers' online and offline identities to better evaluate a transaction's legitimacy.

GlassPay, a new Google Glass app from RedBottle Design LLC, allows consumers to make purchases with bitcoins, a prominent digital currency.

Visa and global e-commerce company Borderfree are offering free shipping from Borderfree's clients to Visa cardholders in Southeast Asia.

ReD has expanded its relationship with Seattle-based WhitePages Inc. to provide its e-commerce merchant clients with more business and consumer data when vetting transactions for fraud.

Homeland Stores, a grocery store chain based in Oklahoma City, wanted to digitize its plastic loyalty card without having a vendor's brand get in the way.

While digital initiatives take longer to show their effect in the company's revenue, American Express Co. is still making investments in emerging payments and prepaid cards.

Mobile software developers increasingly use common platforms for payments and other functions. And many of those developers rely on Braintree, a company eBay is purchasing for $800 million.

American Express Co., the biggest credit-card issuer by purchases, posted a third-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates as customer spending climbed.