Digital payments
Digital payments
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The company behind the German mobile payments app GO4Q has had a busy and challenging summer, adding payments for taxi drivers, golf courses and beer gardens.
August 15 -
Mobile payments provider Square Inc. faces fines of $507,000 from Florida regulators for operating in the state without a money transmitter license.
August 14 -
Payment processor SecureNet Payment Systems has developed Mobile PayOS, which enables merchants to use Apple's iOS mobile devices to receive mobile payments.
August 14 -
Groupon aims to attract more merchants to its mobile payment offering by letting them remove the mobile device from the equation.
August 14 -
Realex Financial Services has launched Realex Fire, an account that enables users to create a circle of people to regularly pay.
August 14 -
SixThirty, a financial services technology accelerator program by Square co-founder Jim McKelvey, launched this week in St. Louis.
August 14 -
Youth payments company Virtual Piggy has integrated with Sulakes Habbo Hotel, a social gaming and online community for teenagers.
August 14 -
At a time when most mobile payment apps use virtual cards, QR codes or contactless payments, Dairy Queen is testing the more experimental location-based approach employed by Square and PayPal.
August 14 -
Chase Paymentech now offers a mobile checkout application and card reader as part of its Chase Checkout point of sale technology for small businesses.
August 13 -
Shopify is integrating payments processing with its online storefronts, enabling merchants to accept and manage Visa, MasterCard and American Express payments directly through Shopify.
August 13 -
Israeli startup BuyCode Inc. has introduced the Pounce mobile payment app, allowing consumers to purchase products they see in print through image recognition technology.
August 13 -
AOL is adding a payments function to email by working with Hearst Corp.'s Manilla, a paperless bill and magazine subscription organizer.
August 13 -
PayPal offers no shortage of choices for loading their accounts, including Green Dot, MoneyGram, Coinstar and its own My Cash Card but are consumers using them?
August 13 -
In the race to provide consumers with identity verification tools that are simple and easy to use, it's in everyone's best interest to ensure that businesses are not sacrificing data security in the process.
August 13 -
Chase Card Services says it will stick with the Isis mobile wallet venture as it prepares for a national rollout after nearly 10 months of testing. In doing so, the JPMorgan Chase unit also gives its endorsement to Isis' model of using Near Field Communication for contactless payments.
August 12 -
VeriFone has begun outfitting on-board payments systems on New York City's new street-hail livery cars.
August 12 -
Heartland School Solutions has launched mySchoolBucks, a mobile app that provides parents access to their childrens school related payments.
August 12 -
Canadian-based cooperative financial group Desjardins has reached an agreement with mobile technology provider Monitise to develop and deploy Near Field Communication-based mobile payments.
August 12 -
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin is part of the team behind Glow, a fertility tracking service that uses a mobile app, crowdfunding and analysis to help women conceive children.
August 9 -
Blackbaud has added mobile payment capabilities intended for nonprofit and educational organizations to use at fundraising events.
August 9


