Technology

MasterCard has begun offering U.S. merchants and developers Simplify Commerce, a product of MasterCard labs, the Purchase, N.Y. card network's research and development lab.

Payments startup Clinkle has attracted a long roster of Silicon Valley investors for its new payments technology, which is expected to debut within the next year.

CCBill has developed a portal to help merchants analyze data produced by payments to spot purchasing patterns and other trends that can tie past transactions to future business strategy.

It's been an eventful year so far in the payments industry. Exciting new technologies, dramatic executive turnover and ongoing courtroom drama have defined 2013's first six months.

Webster Bank's plotting its move into mobile payments, and part of its strategy is to let others make the mistakes, particularly when it comes to tapping payments data for purposes such as marketing.

Space travel and tourism are achievable dreams for the near future, and PayPal aims to reach the final frontier before its rivals do.

Square Inc. has hired Gokul Rajaram to head software development for the Square Register app as the company's Product Engineering Lead.

Payoneer, a global payments company, entered partnerships in Latin America with three of the region's largest freelance marketplaces, Nubelo, Workana and Adtriboo.

Vantiv and Planet Payment have launched the Pay in Your Currency service at 85 Billabong locations in the U.S.

After a March acquisition, Pond5, an online marketplace for stock media, found its operations in more than two dozen countries with different payment methods in each. To restructure the checkout process and consolidate payment methods, Pond5 chose to work with Adyen.