This past weekend’s launch of Apple Inc.’s iPad also saw the introduction of Square Inc.’s payment card-acceptance application for the device.

Starbucks Corp.'s mobile payment system went from a "Short" trial at 16 stores to a "Grande" deployment in more than a thousand locations, validating a low-tech approach to high-tech payments.

VeriFone Holdings Inc. on Thursday named Chase Paymentech Solutions LLC as one of its preferred merchant processors for users of its mobile phone card reader.

Transaction Network Services Inc. and Blue Bamboo have entered into an agreement that enables independent sales organizations, acquirers and processors to sell a mobile-payment system, according to the companies.

An Indian technology vendor plans to launch a service later this year that will enable investors in India to buy and sell mutual funds using mobile phone text messages.

Citing an increased use in smartphones, the Arkansas state government earlier this month launched a mobile Web site that enables residents to use their phones to pay for certain government services. Residents may access the Arkansas.gov mobile Web site using their phone’s browser to make prison inmate trust-account deposits; probation, parole and restitution payments; and Pulaski County property tax payments.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Tech CU is providing its members with an enhanced list of methods to prevent being the victims of fraud through mobile banking.

Fiserv Inc. Monday announced that SunTrust Banks Inc. will use its mobile-banking service that gives consumers more access to mobile-financial services.

Arkansans can now make payments to the state government over their mobile phones.

Three years ago banks rushed to be first to offer mobile text-message alerts notifying customers of suspicious credit and debit card transactions. Now Visa Inc. is trying to up the stakes by emphasizing the superior speed of its mobile transaction-notification service compared with other such services.

When The Fortunate Cup Coffee Cafe Inc. began accepting a new form of mobile payments last week, it also began to brew up more business for the bank that made it possible.

Gift and loyalty services company SparkBase says its deal announced this week with Apriva will expand the potential number of merchants that can accept SparkBase products.

The mobile banking technology provider ClairMail Inc. announced a platform that it says makes it easier to adapt mobile banking systems as a bank's business and technology needs change.

Citigroup Inc. is learning many consumers today do not share its enthusiasm for mobile payments.

PayPal's new iPhone application is more than a payment system — the company is also trying to make it easier for people to use the app as a cash replacement.

MasterCard Worldwide for years has offered ATM Hunter only on its Web site, but interest in the ATM-finder service skyrocketed when the card brand made it available for smartphones, says Cheryl Guerin, MasterCard senior vice president, U.S. and digital marketing.

First Data Corp. plans to use technology embedded into a digital memory card as the next step in evolving the payment processor’s contactless-payment technology.

MasterCard Worldwide today launched an ATM-finder application for Blackberry smartphones, nearly a year after the card brand rolled out the same free downloadable, customizable application for the Apple iPhone.

Barclaycard reportedly plans to deploy mobile phones enabled with Near Field Communication payment technology in conjunction with France-based mobile-network operator Orange during the second half of this year. The report did not specify where the phone would be available, and both companies operate in multiple countries.