Technology

Little Rock, Arkansas and Oakland, California objected to a multibillion-dollar settlement of a price-fixing case against Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. over the fees charged to merchants to process credit-card transactions.

US Merchant Systems, an ISO with 100,000 retail locations, is providing data analytics to customers through Womply Insights.

Mass payment facilitator Tipalti is bringing its technology to advertising payments through a partnership with Cake Marketing, which provides services for performance-based marketing.

Facebook is working with Payments technology provider Marqeta Inc. to add features to its stored-value Facebook Card.

Sam Yam was the college roommate of Jack Conte, half of the indie band Pomplamoose. Together, they founded Patreon to help artists like Conte raise funds from fans online.

TransUnion has developed a risk assessment model to help auto lenders evaluate the potential for future loan delinquency based on the history of the vehicle used as collateral.

PayZang hopes to bring a mobile payments system to the private practice of a doctor, or the office of a larger healthcare company.a

Payments technology provider ZooZ has developed a product that combines mobile payments with advertising.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a court order to the alternative payment provider Dwolla to cease operations with Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, which it accuses of operating as an unlicensed money transmitter.

Tyfone Inc. is taking smart-card security beyond plastic payment cards with a plan to apply the technology to mobile devices and personal computers.