Mobile payments

PayPal President David Marcus is leaving the eBay unit to lead Facebook's messaging products.

American Express Co. reached a deal that will allow customers of car-service firm Uber Technologies Inc. to book rides using rewards points.

Apple's plan to introduce a new Lightning connector for headphones, potentially replacing the standard 3.5mm jack, could give mobile payment companies a major hardware headache.

Mobile payments and ticketing promise a smoother process than waiting in line to purchase a paper ticket, but often, the reality is that a mobile ticket is only as good as the mobile phone's signal.

Square's new Order app allows consumers to order and pay at Square merchants before arriving at a merchant's store. The process for ordering is different for each merchant, based on the level of information they provide to Square.

LevelUp has updated its mobile payment app with a feature that empowers consumers to immediately notify the company of problems they experience with its mobile payment app.

Even though app development is considered a fast-paced environment, developers often wait a long time to receive payments, says Pollen CEO and co-founder Martin Macmillan.

Square is releasing a new service called Square Invoices, which allows merchants and other sellers to send bills to customers.

Starbucks customers in South Korea will be the first to use the coffee giant’s popular mobile payment app to place an order and pay for it before they show up at the store.

Elizabeth Buse, a former Visa executive who left the card network this year after a 16-year career with the company, has been named co-CEO of Monitise Group.

Harris and Hoole, a coffee chain supported by U.K. grocery company Tesco PLC, is accepting mobile payments at the point of sale in each of its 36 stores throughout the country.

Payments industry veteran Dickson Chu joined Ingo Money as the company's corporate development and chief product officer.

CardFlight intends to incorporate Apple's fingerprint scanning technology into SwipeSimple, its mobile payment application for businesses.

Apple Inc. changed its policy to let software developers include virtual-currency transactions in their applications, paving the way for new forms of money like bitcoin to appear on iPhones and iPads.

Irvine, Calif.-based chip maker and electronics provider Broadcom applied for a patent for multiple Near Field Communication antennas in an NFC device around the same time Apple Inc. did in 2012.

Apple is fine-tuning its mobile purchasing capabilities, adding parental controls and voice commands to digital content purchases and extending its TouchID fingerprint authentication system to third-party developers.

Apple has never built an iPhone capable of making Near Field Communication payments, but we know it has been studying the technology closely for years. With its Worldwide Developers Conference taking place this week, Apple may soon reveal what it's been working on.

Apple executives have started talking to high-end retailers to gauge their interest in a mobile payments service, the Apple news site 9to5Mac reports.

Intuit Inc., a longtime frenemy of banks, may end up raising the bar for mobile financial services with its latest acquisition.

Orderbird says it is ready to migrate into new markets after adding 400 new customers for its iPad-based point of sale system in recent months and adding payments industry veterans to its supervisory board.