Online payments

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

When Ben Milne was running a manufacturing company in Iowa, "you could not get around credit card fees," he recalls.

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

Online payments provider 2Checkout is introducing application programming interface libraries that enable merchants to customize the shopping experience.

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

Live Gamer, a digital commerce provider, will offer its new Pay+ and Elements global payment platforms for the education industry.

Virtual Piggy, which developed the youth payments service Oink, has added commerce solutions provider Gorilla Group is now a member of its channel partner program.

Citigroup customers who use its ThankYou Rewards program now have the option to use the points they earn to pay bills through the bank's online bill pay system.

Digital payments company Payfort, which is based in Dubai, is using local merchant networks and consumers' own homes to enable more travel payments.

Zipmark Inc. is taking its application programming interface for accepting digital checks and adapting it as a mass payment option to its business clients.

The payments technology company Stripe and other vendors say they get the best feedback from prospective clients by simply opening up their technology.

Google is testing a way to use its Wallet on Google Glass through verbal commands, according to a report by TechCrunch.

CaixaBank now allows customers to monitor their bank account, make donations to charities and obtain payment cards through a Facebook application.

Mopay has entered into a carrier billing relationship with Baidu Mobile Game.

Amazon.com Inc. now lets customers shop through Twitter.

While mobile wallet providers try to simplify the payment process by taking physical plastic cards out of the equation, others are looking further into the future to an era where all things are connected.

WorldPay Group, of London, has acquired Cobre Bem Tecnologia, one of the largest payment processors in Latin America.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the Chinese e-commerce operator headed for an initial public offering, is in talks to regain a stake in the Alipay payments affiliate, according to a person familiar with the matter.

PayPal is launching a new logo and brand campaign to appeal to a broader audience.

Sports Fusion and MasterCard processing subsidiary DataCash are working to unify the normally siloed purchasing experiences at sporting events.