Mobile payments

Google now allows Android device users to fund app purchases with a PayPal account, but hasn't gone so far as to enable the rival payment method as a funding source for all Google Wallet purchases.

Square now allows merchants to refund part of a sale made through its Square Register mobile point of sale app.

PayPoint plc's PayByPhone has acquired Adaptis Services Ltd. and entered into a partnership with the City of Paris to bring mobile payments to 155,000 parking spaces.

Square's latest flurry of features came just in time for Souvla, a new Greek sandwich shop and wine bar in San Francisco.

Zuppler and LevelUp are enabling restaurants to offer patrons the option to pre-order and pay for food online or through mobile phones.

Yapital Financial AG is seeking bank partners to further expand its European cross-channel payment system.

Isis, the mobile wallet venture of AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, has activated an average of 20,000 new mobile wallets per day in the past 30 days.

HyperWallet Systems Inc. now supports direct-to-bank transfers in India using local currency.

The card manufacturer ABnote is working with SimplyTapp, a Near Field Communication technology provider, to support Host Card Emulation tech in a jointly developed product.

Bluetooth-based beacons, which detect when customers enter a merchant's store, will dramatically change how businesses manage identity, payments and customer engagement, said Patrick Gauthier, PayPal's head of emerging services.

Executives at processor Total System Services can't predict which of the many existing mobile payments technologies will dominate the payments landscape of the future, but they plan to aggressively go after the processing business that follows.

Square Inc. now lets its merchants get feedback from customers through a response window added to its digital receipts. Appropriately, the new service is called Square Feedback.

Jusp, an Italian maker of mobile payment systems, is offering its technology on Nokia's Windows-based Lumia smartphones.

If Apple isn't quite ready to enter the mobile payments field in the U.S., it might be leaning toward China as its initial proving ground.

Bima plans to use its latest funding to get more people in emerging markets to obtain insurance by making it possible to pay their insurance premiums on mobile phones.

The city of Indianapolis has seen a significant jump in parking revenue after adopting technology from Xerox, replacing antiquated meters with new ones that accept debit, credit and mobile payments.

The payment processor Vantiv has agreed to buy Mercury Payment Systems LLC for $1.65 billion to expand its services for cloud-based payments integrated into other technology, says Vantiv president and CEO Charles Drucker.

Spindle Inc. has agreed to make its will merchant approval platform available to U.S.-based clients of iConnect, a Colorado-based provider of point of sale technology.

Apple will be ready to accept Near Field Communication payments from phones in its stores, even though none of its consumer devices support NFC out of the box.

Ecopayz launched a private, online application designed for travel payments.