Owners of Sony's PlayStation 4 video game console, which launched in November, can now use PayPal to purchase games and other media from the console's built-in PlayStation Store.

Spreedly is launching a vaulting service that allows e-commerce merchants to manage payments without using a third-party gateway provider to authorize online transactions or handle related tasks such as data security.

Intuit is in discussions to purchase bill payment company Check Inc., according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Revel Systems is offering a new accessibility bundle for its tablet-based point of sale system.

U.S. Bank's addition of "instant" person to person payments is a response to consumer expectations: If mobile payments are supposed to replace cash, they should be as fast as cash.

EBay Inc. is looking at ways it can bring Venmo's mobile person-to-person payment method and the Venmo Touch mobile purchasing system into PayPal's ecosystem, eBay executives said in a conference call to discuss first-quarter earnings.

Equifax is working with the mobile payments company Zumigo to jointly develop fraud prevention software.

MasterCard has launched its MasterPass digital wallet technology in New Zealand.

Shopify is working with payment services provider 2Checkout to allow merchants to accept payments in more currencies and regions.

Square has launched an order-ahead feature and other services to boost its appeal to brick-and-mortar merchants, but history has shown that merchants can be fickle about which features they'll pay more to use.

U.S. Bank will enable real-time person-to-person payments through Fiserv's Popmoney.

MoneyGram is working with PicomoPay to enable U.S.-based Facebook users to send funds to MoneyGram agent locations in 200 countries using PicomoPay's Facebook app.

Fleet card provider WEX plans to release an app that tells motorists where the most cost-effective gas station is based on their location rather than just showing the price of gas.

After previous tests resulted in mobile phone payments taking a little longer to complete a transaction than a contactless Oyster card, Transport for London is again trying Near Field Communication-enabled phones for payment on its rail network and Tube underground rails.

Starbucks may soon make the tools behind its successful m-commerce strategy available to other retailers.

PayPal and the mobile technology provider QikServe are working to enable U.K. hospitality businesses to accept orders and payments through the PayPal smartphone app.

Online video game developer and publisher InnoGames has chosen payment processor Worldpay to manage its local and international transactions.

Mobile imaging is vital to Green Dot's GoBank account, which relies on the mobile device for nearly all customer interaction.

Apple CEO Tim Cook detailed in an April 23 earnings call what many have believed will be the foundation for Apple's entry into payments: a strong iTunes customer base.

Fueled by a new round of funding, Tradeshift plans to keep changing the way businesses make and receive payments through an open, cloud-based platform that connects a half million companies.