Digital payments
Digital payments
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Digital coupon company Savor has extended the reach of its mobile shopping app, and plans to add Bluetooth beacons and card-linked offers to bring deals to consumers while they are in a store.
June 19 -
Amazon.com Inc.'s Fire Phone, unveiled today, has a button that blends mobile purchasing with real-world shopping.
June 18 -
To move the U.S. toward a faster electronic payments system, it may be necessary to design a completely new payments infrastructure.
June 18 -
Dwolla, an alternative payments provider, has launched a service that allows customers to send money to a business without having to enter bank account information.
June 18 -
Xpress Money has partnered with Kenya's Safaricom Ltd. to offer money transfer services through the M-Pesa mobile money platform.
June 18 -
Global Payments, an Atlanta-based payment processor, has signed a deal with Bigcommerce, an e-commerce software firm, to provide its merchants with online shopping sites.
June 18 -
Seamless' mobile payments system is currently available in only a few countries, but the Swedish company has its eyes set on quickly adding bigger markets.
June 18 -
VeriFone is introducing its sound-based mobile app for proximity payments, Way2ride, to taxi passengers in Philadelphia.
June 17 -
SCVNGR's LevelUp has seen a sharp rise in spending at merchants that use iBeacon, Apple's version of a Bluetooth Low Energy system for detecting consumers and providing location-based offers.
June 17 -
Chick-Fil-A has joined a growing number of quick-service franchises that are testing or deploying a mobile payment app for customers.
June 16 -
Swedish mobile payments provider Seamless has entered a distribution deal with retail tech provider PCMS Group.
June 16 -
PNC Financial Services has begun offering a new tool for merchants to accept payments on their mobile devices.
June 16 -
Powa's Asia Pacific strategy took a fortuitous leap when MPayMe became available to acquire, says CEO Dan Wagner.
June 16 -
While there is much attention on mobile payments at the point of sale, several companies are working on mobile payments for commuting, parking and other scenarios where a mobile app could replace a paper ticket or fare card. But it hasn't always been a smooth ride for these new technologies.
June 13 -
BlackBerry has suffered its share of lumps in the payment market, but it has scored an apparent victory in a partnership deal with Canadian mobile payment venture EnStream, which is owned by Bell, Rogers and Telus.
June 13 -
Balanced's new Push to Card program allows its marketplace clients to pay sellers directly onto their debit cards, enabling those sellers to instantly spend those funds.
June 13 -
Businesses often receive payments in a variety of ways, which can cause headaches when it comes to tracking and managing transactions, says Greg Hammermaster, president of Sage's payments division.
June 13 -
API Software Inc. has created a mobile app for independent sales organizations to help merchants tabulate the best payment services deals.
June 13 -
Zimbabwe-based banking software provider Edgetech Solutions has begun testing EdgePay, a payment system that uses sound waves to provide added security at the point of sale.
June 13 -
Green Dot has hired a PayPal executive to become general manager of its mobile bank account, known as GoBank.
June 12



