Disruptors

Starbucks now receives over 10% of its U.S. transactions as mobile payments, and over 30% of its transactions are made with the mobile or plastic version of its Starbucks Card accounts.

Punchey's tossing its hat into the mobile payments ring with a mix of mobile card acceptance, social network-driven marketing and other services designed for merchants that handle larger payments.

For digital payments to flourish, they must get bigger — and bigger payments require stronger authentication.

BuyReply, an Australian startup, is going back to the basics in allowing consumers to purchase items from television and magazine advertisements by sending just an email or a text message — no special hardware or software required.

MasterCard Inc. and telco VimpelCom Ltd. are testing a Near Field Communication-based mobile payments service at a Russian bank.

Eight months after giving the Project Oscar mobile commerce initiative a new name — Weve — and a new mission in the U.K., the telco joint venture has given its first hints of launching a Near Field Communication mobile payments service.

McDonald's and Kuwait International Bank are partnering with Seamless to pilot Seamless' SEQR mobile payment system in Kuwait.

Self-serve digital payments company USA Technologies will be the service provider for Setomatic Systems, a company that provides payment systems to the laundry industry.

Square has completed a major overhaul of the cloud-based Square Wallet, which allows consumers to make purchases from a linked payment card by "checking in" at a Square merchant. Here are some of the key differences in the new Wallet app.

Swift's offshoot Innotribe held a startup competition Thursday. Winners' products centered on mobile fraud, crowdfunding and P2P mobile payments.

Plastyc Inc. now does business as Banking Up, a name that signifies the direction in which it is taking its prepaid offerings, iBankUP and the UPside Visa card.

BitInstant, a purchasing platform for Bitcoin, is ramping up security by implementing Jumio Inc.'s Netverify software.

Electronic commerce services provider Billeo has purchased Swag.io, an e-commerce platform provider that allows companies to place purchase links directly into social media posts.

ShopKeep POS is adding credit card acceptance through PayPal at a 2.7% per-transaction fee, which it says is competitive with other processing options.

Square Inc. has redesigned its mobile payment app, displaying its merchants as thumbnail images instead of as a list and placing a greater emphasis on discounts and loyalty.

Corduro has added technology to its PayMobile app to locate and attract nearby customers when a merchant's business is slow.

The New York based company said Wednesday it had secured the funding from a group of investors led by Venrock and Institutional Venture Partners.

Zipmark CEO Jay Bhattacharya describes how payments innovation, from PayPal to the present, is changing the way merchants do business.

Discover Financial Services' arrangement to facilitate in-store PayPal transactions across its network stands to serve as the biggest expansion of its ongoing strategy to serve as a multifaceted utility throughout the payments ecosystem.

Gravity Payments now allows PayPal card acceptance at about 10,000 merchants in Washington State.