Newegg's recent acceptance of Bitcoin is just the latest of the online electronics retailer's many digital payment options. Its tech-savvy audience demands digital currency and digital wallets, and accommodating these needs is critical to Newegg's expansion into new markets.

London-based Payza now offers its online payment processing and eWallet services in the United States. Payza is currently used by over 10 million people worldwide as well as 75,000 merchants.

AsiaPay has integrated its payment offerings with Micros Systems to offer technology to the hotel sector in Asia.

Direct carrier billing is gaining in popularity as a way to make payments on – and, increasingly, off – a smartphone. Google is the latest company to put more muscle behind the emerging payment method.

Twitter appears to be preparing to add "Buy Now" buttons to tweets in a move to transform its microblogging service into an e-commerce platform.

Paysafecard is bringing its prepaid online payment service to Peru and Uruguay, providing those who may not have a bank account with an e-commerce shopping option.

Optimal Payments, a payments and risk management company based in London, is acquiring two online payment firms in an effort to expand its business in the U.S.

The U.S. would be at a clear disadvantage if its financial institutions fail to adopt the ISO 20022 standard, which many other regions use to handle electronic payments, the Federal Reserve Banks say.

The telco is offering Payleven's hardware to enable its small-business customers to comply with an Italian mandate to cut back on cash use.

The website hosting company GoDaddy built its first mobile and online payments service using APIs from PayPal, Dwolla and Stripe.

Sweden's Seamless has entered into an agreement with InComm that will enable the Atlanta, Ga.-based company to offer digitized versions of reloadable closed-loop cards.

The Spanish bank says it is first to bring Visa's version of cloud-based mobile payments to market.

PayPal has added a new fingerprint identification option to its app for users of Samsung's Galaxy Tab S tablet, furthering PayPal's push to be an early adopter of Samsung technology.

The launch of Android Wear, Google's platform for smartwatches, has opened the floodgates for new payment ideas. Some developers are flocking to Google's platform, and others are ignoring Google entirely.

The telco-owned Isis mobile wallet is trying to determine whether its brand is damaged by consumer awareness of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, as it's commonly called by the U.S. media.

PayByPhone has been selected by Florida International University in Miami to provide a cashless payment service for its campus parking lots.

Revel has added a dashboard for Yelp and Foursquare to its point of sale tablet, giving businesses a way to respond immediately to any complaints or praise posted to social media.

Businesses cling to the paper check even as technology moves more payments into the mobile channel. Deluxe Corp. is bridging these two trends with an app starts a payment on a mobile device and ends it with a printed check.

PayPal has at least temporarily shut off two-factor authentication for the PayPal mobile app after a security researcher found a way to bypass that second factor.

Ibotta, a twist on a mobile couponing app, is driving traffic to merchants by making consumers perform tasks to earn cash-back offers.