Motorola Mobility will phase out its use of Xoom branding for its tablet, following a trademark infringement fight with Xoom, an online remittance company.

Near Field Communication technology is regaining its momentum as a payments tool with Desjardins Group's planned mobile payments rollout.

Since becoming CEO of U.K.-based VocaLink last year, David Yates has launched a separate mobile payments unit while keeping the processor focused on speeding up payments throughout Europe.

Micros Systems, which provides services for the hospitality and retail industries, is collaborating with PayPal to provide payments technology.

Payment processor Mercury Payment Systems is collaborating with PayPal to allow Mercury's software developers, resellers and 80,000 mostly local merchant clients to accept PayPal payments in stores.

Schools are increasingly relying on digital payments for the cafeteria and activities — a trend that is proving to be fertile ground for payments technology as frantic parents seek ways to keep their kids properly fed and supplied for their education.

As check registers and passbooks fade into obscurity for a growing number of bank customers, Realex seeks to further modernize payments by putting a human face on accounts.

With another iPhone announcement expected in the next month, a recent Apple patent application for digital content gifting could provide insight into how Apple would develop Near Field Communication technology for payments.

Recognition by a market-based standards organization such as ISO, in the form of a three-letter code, would set the stage for increasing market depth and liquidity of bitcoin trading — in turn facilitating overall consumer and merchant adoption.

Youth e-commerce company Virtual Piggy will provide its payment engine to Marvelous USA, which sells video games.

CVC Capital Partners Ltd., one of Europe’s largest private-equity firms, agreed to buy a majority stake in British online payment company Skrill Group Plc from Investcorp Bank BSC in a deal worth $800 million.

VeriFone Systems has launched Way2Ride, a mobile app that enables taxi passengers to get in, tap to pay, and get out of the cab the moment their ride is over.

Facebook’s new mobile checkout initiative brings heft to the power of social data in areas such as advertising and payments risk, and aims to improve the user experience on mobile apps.

Bitcoin users who help maintain the digital ecosystem's official record of transactions may soon find themselves required to register with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as administrators of the alternative currency.

A new Braintree service is designed to help market-style businesses streamline the process of splitting incoming consumer payments between their online stores and selling partners.

Canadian financial services technology developer Davis and Henderson closed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Lake Mary, Fla.-based Harland Financial Solutions on Friday.

As the Isis mobile wallet comes out of pilot, it's important to note that not every emerging payments initiative makes it this far. But in experiments, any result can be valuable if the companies behind the test find something to learn from it.

See how the U.K. version of the PayPal Here mobile point of sale technology enables EMV chip-card payments.

The European Commission says the phone company and banks involved in a mobile commerce joint venture in Spain can move forward because they are not violating anti-competition rules.

Stripe, a technology company that helps other companies accept payments online, is formally launching its British service.