Mobile payments

At a time when most mobile payment apps use virtual cards, QR codes or contactless payments, Dairy Queen is testing the more experimental location-based approach employed by Square and PayPal.

Chase Paymentech now offers a mobile checkout application and card reader as part of its Chase Checkout point of sale technology for small businesses.

Israeli startup BuyCode Inc. has introduced the Pounce mobile payment app, allowing consumers to purchase products they see in print through image recognition technology.

In the race to provide consumers with identity verification tools that are simple and easy to use, it's in everyone's best interest to ensure that businesses are not sacrificing data security in the process.

Chase Card Services says it will stick with the Isis mobile wallet venture as it prepares for a national rollout after nearly 10 months of testing. In doing so, the JPMorgan Chase unit also gives its endorsement to Isis' model of using Near Field Communication for contactless payments.

VeriFone has begun outfitting on-board payments systems on New York City's new street-hail livery cars.

Heartland School Solutions has launched mySchoolBucks, a mobile app that provides parents access to their children’s school related payments.

Canadian-based cooperative financial group Desjardins has reached an agreement with mobile technology provider Monitise to develop and deploy Near Field Communication-based mobile payments.

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin is part of the team behind Glow, a fertility tracking service that uses a mobile app, crowdfunding and analysis to help women conceive children.

Blackbaud has added mobile payment capabilities intended for nonprofit and educational organizations to use at fundraising events.

Samsung Wallet, an Android wallet app that largely resembles Apple's Passbook, is now available on the Google Play marketplace for Android smartphone apps.

Companies such as CenPOS, Ingenico and BillingTree are accelerating payments innovation by customizing their technology for the automotive industry.

PayPal's cloud-based mobile wallet, which authenticates shoppers by presenting a photo of their face to the cashier, has arrived in the U.K.

Building on an earlier partnership, Isis and American Express are integrating their software and allowing Isis mobile wallet users to access their Isis accounts with Amex's Serve prepaid cards.

Motorists in downtown Portland, Ore. will be able to pay for parking using a QuickPay Corp. mobile app at City Center Parking meters starting in September.

The Visa Ready Program has approved Swiff, SCCP Group's chip-and-PIN mobile payment acceptance technology.

Launched in April 2010, Think Computer Corp.'s FaceCash application signed up 25 Bay Area merchants and 500 consumers to use its novel technology, which combined mobile bar code scanning and photo identification. Then regulators put it out of business.

Eric Lefkofsky, a Groupon co-founder who ousted Andrew Mason as chief executive officer in February to take the job on an interim basis, was made permanent CEO, the Chicago-based company said in a statement today.

To facilitate the launch of a mobile wallet unveiled in February at the Mobile World Congress 2013 event, a major bank and a telecommunications company in Norway have formed a joint venture.

As mobile wallets expand their services, they more closely resemble full-fledged bank accounts. And PreCash Inc. says it can do at least one job better than banks do today.