Technology

Mobile apps and personal financial management sites that attempt to analyze consumer’s spending habits and draw forecasts and conclusions about what the consumer should be doing pose risks, one expert says.

Sean Harper, director of products at Groupon Payments, shares his vision of the future of mobile payments and details why Groupon believes its business model can stand out among both traditional card terminal providers and mobile payments processors.

Plimus Inc., an e-commerce services provider, attracted more than 5,000 customers in 145 countries without much marketing. That user base hints at the growing demand for processing technology that equips merchants with payments mechanisms on their e-commerce websites.

Go Daddy will implement First Data Corp.’s technology to provide online payments processing services to small businesses.

Merchants in the British Virgin Islands will soon have a new mobile card reader available to accept card payments through their smartphones.

Green Dot is taking a lesson from Radiohead, oddly enough, and giving customers control of one of the company's mobile bank account fees.

PayPal, facing a growing tide of consumer complaints, is changing its approach to fraud monitoring. But the eBay unit has provided few details of its plans, leading some to wonder whether it will be able to appease the consumers that say they've been wrongfully ensnared in its fraud-fighting net.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed more than 134,000 foreclosure prevention actions in the third quarter ended Sept. 30.

Citibank India announced the launch of a mobile and tablet card reading device today developed by Ezetap Mobile Solutions.

Amazon.com Inc. has added an in-app purchasing feature for games and other programs developed for the Web, Mac and PC.