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Mopay Inc. on May 25 announced a new platform for mobile payments.

Starbucks Corp. is known for its nonalcoholic beverages, but the success of its mobile payments application has forced it to contend with a bootlegger.

After testing Mocapay’s mobile-marketing consumer engagement platform in November, Dazbog Coffee now plans to use it to launch mobile marketing promotions and mobile prepaid gift cards at 21 locations in Colorado and Wyoming, Doug Dwyre, Mocapay president, tells PaymentsSource.

The proverbial battle over mobile payments has turned into a legal one.

Banks are not yet able to meet the demand for mobile check deposit, according to a Javelin Strategy and Research study released on May 24.

The emphasis on broad merchant participation at the outset of development of the Google Wallet sets it apart from certain other initiatives and could be the crucial element in driving consumer adoption, according to at least one smart card industry executive.

Charles Schwab Corp. and Fidelity Investments have rolled out mobile check deposit services to their customers.

Google Inc.’s new mobile payment system puts pressure on Isis, the wireless carrier-backed joint venture trying to develop a competing system.

Sequent Software, a maker of products and services enabling Near Field Communication-based mobile payments, on May 25 announced the selection of Vivotech Inc. as its partner in developing mobile wallet-based NFC payment technology for commercial customers.

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Bill.com Inc. said Wednesday that it is improving its mobile offering for small and medium-sized businesses.

The new person-to-person payments company launched by three top banks may not be a PayPal-killer, but experts say the clearXchange venture is a clear threat to the dominant bank-focused payments services.

Pasadena, Calif.-based Wescom Central CU said May 25 its Wescom Resources Group has signed with PayPal to offer Person-to-Person payment services to credit unions.

Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. plan to debut a person-to-person payments service on Wednesday that lets customers send money to each other with an email address or mobile phone number, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Square Inc. faces a new cast of challengers in its plan to spark consumer adoption of mobile payments after muting many critics of its merchant technology.

VSoft Corp., a provider of popular remote deposit capture technology, announced May 23 it is partnering with Mitek Systems Inc. to provide Mitek’s patented Mobile Deposit to financial institutions leveraging VSoft’s Agile Mobile Capture service.

As consumers become more comfortable with such technologies as unlocking a car from inside the house to recording movies remotely they are becoming more interested in using mobile phones for payments, survey data from MasterCard Worldwide suggest.

Square Inc. is expanding beyond mobile card acceptance with a new service that allows consumers to initiate payments through its application.

Bank skepticism of the Isis mobile payments joint venture was high when the wireless carriers leading the initiative announced its formation last fall, but Isis says it has calmed early suspicions and now is working closely with major banks and payments companies.