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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.

The ATM Industry Association is offering five reasons to support the ATM Industry U.S. Defense Fund.

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.

Executives at VeriFone Systems Inc. are speaking bluntly about the issues plaguing their company as they work to restore customers’ confidence and recruit a CEO.

Some data breaches can’t be prevented. But too many occur when data-storage companies fail to use “aggravatingly simple protections,” a new Javelin Strategy & Research report says.

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.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a philanthropic organization, began accepting donations in ripple or XRP, the native digital currency of the Ripple network.

Text2Pay, a mobile billing application for online purchases, now allows merchants to accept Bitcoin, the decentralized virtual currency.

PayAnywhere will provide mobile credit card processing to Camp Masters, the popcorn brand sold by the Boy Scouts of America for fundraising.

Chirpify, which handles payments over social media, is launching a direct payment processing option, overcoming its reliance on PayPal’s service.

Consumers today are social media addicts, and Getonic is aiming to use their Facebook and Twitter habits to the advantage of online merchants.

How consumers conduct PayPal transactions across the Discover Network demonstrates a shift in how the eBay unit approaches its transition to becoming an in-store payments option.

Apple's one nod to payments during its keynote address at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference is its plan to store users' credit card info in a new iCloud keychain for online shopping.

Microsoft confirmed that the company will eliminate Microsoft Points, its digital currency, in favor of pricing digital content in local currencies.