TSYS' ProPay has launched a service to handle rent payments via mobile devices for the property management industry.

Payment processor Global Payments Asia-Pacific Ltd. and telecom service provider Dialog Axiata PLC are offering technology in Sri Lanka that enables smartphones or tablets to be used as mobile point of sale terminals.

PayPal Canada is collaborating with TouchBistro to allow customers to use smartphones to "check in" and pay at restaurants.

For merchants that use mobile point of sale technology, the U.S. migration to EMV-chip cards may still be a couple of years away. Roam aims to make it possible to accept EMV cards ahead of schedule.

After bringing its mobile card reader into Mexico two months ago in its first venture outside of Europe, iZettle has made its next move into Brazil.

Twitter Inc. hired Nathan Hubbard, the former president of Ticketmaster, as its first head of commerce, part of a push to enable shopping via short postings on its social website.

Developing the Starbucks mobile payment app stands as a badge of honor in the career of Chuck Davidson, who is now the head of product for CardFree, where he continues to work alongside several of the experts who helped make the Starbucks app a massive success.

Virtual Piggy and American Express are trying to win the attention of gamers by offering them prizes in their favorite online games — but players only get the prizes if they change the way they pay.

PayPal's building its move into physical stores brick by brick, and its processing partnership with TSYS is one of its largest moves to date, threatening to grab payments business away from card-issuing banks.

Danish mobile point of sale provider Wallmob is introducing a new tablet stand to a payments market where technology is heavily influenced by the card companies that dominate the region.

Convenience for the receiver will ultimately drive mass adoption of P2P payments and give financial institutions that deploy this service a competitive advantage.

BitPay Inc., a Bitcoin payment gateway for online merchants, has created a simplified interface for consumers and added several plugins to encourage more merchants to accept the virtual currency without writing new code.

Facebook shocked the payments industry during its IPO when it revealed it already got 15% of its revenue from payments. The social network has also proven a fertile ground to other companies that have figured out how to incorporate Facebook's platform into their own offerings.

Vodafone and ICICI Bank are offering the M-Pesa mobile money service in New Delhi and Mumbai, according to reports.

Gas station owners may have the most difficult task of any retailers in preparing for mobile payments and EMV cards because of their dated systems and equipment — and because many of their customers fear that using their phones at the pump will cause fires.

PayPal has made its portable chip-and-PIN card reader, called PayPal Here, available to all merchants in the U.K.

Harris Teeter will pilot Paydiant's mobile wallet as part of its Express Lane online shopping service, starting at a grocery store location in Matthews, N.C.

Moven has contracted with online and mobile payments company Payveris to provide payment services for the financial services startup.

London-based Powa Technologies Ltd. received $76 million in investment to expand its mPowa mobile payments technology beyond the U.K.

PayPal is paying attention to locally owned stores in its initiative to support in-store payments, but the small-business segment has posed many challenges for companies that try to introduce new technology.