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EVO Payments International has chosen a name to invoke the effect its perpetual software license from IP Commerce Inc. will have for the company — EVO Snap.

Today's the day Apple unveils the successor to the iPhone 5. Here's a look at the leaks, patent applications and other rumors that shed light on the company's mobile payment plans.

PayPal has unveiled PayPal Beacon, a plug-in device for merchants that will detect when shoppers running PayPal's mobile app enter a store.

Cynergy Data has chosen Roam’s white-label product to power its Vwalaa mobile payment brand.

Barnes & Noble, the biggest U.S. bookstore chain, won the dismissal of a suit over the “skimming” of customers’ PIN codes from credit-card readers at stores in New York, California and seven other states.

Telefónica Czech Republic, operating under its 02 brand, will pilot a mobile payment program to allow merchants to accept payments on their smartphones or tablets from consumers using Near Field Communication-enabled stickers or smartphones.

VeriFone's recovery from its earnings slump will rely heavily on merchants investing in new technology to respond to the impact of mobile on payments.

The launch of PayPal's revamped mobile app is a coming out party for the eBay unit to prove it's laid the foundation to be a serious offline payments player by employing strategies that differ greatly from how it achieved success as an e-commerce payments scheme.

A new group of payment terminal providers will add Isis’ specifications for payments and loyalty programs, enabling the telecom-driven mobile wallet to reach approximately 90% of the addressable market for point of sale hardware in the U.S.

Microsoft's planned acquisition of Nokia's handset division is designed to bolster its position as a hardware manufacturer and solidify a mobile platform for its Windows operating system. But the move may also boost the tech giant's payments aspirations.

The terminal swapouts that accompany the EMV chip-card migration in the U.S. should help VeriFone recover from its performance slump, according to Northcoast Research.

A new Jack Henry program can speed EMV-chip card migration for card issuers by up to a year — but only for credit cards, since ongoing legal issues hamper the use of EMV for debit cards.

MasterCard, C-SAM and DNP are preparing to launch a white label mobile wallet service in Japan.

E-Commerce services provider Digital River is launching a mobile payment acceptance product called Beanstream Mobile.

In a crowded field of Square-like vendors, the Berlin-based SumUp hopes to stand out by virtue of its executive experience, its strong partnerships and funding, and a more comprehensive role in developing its own hardware as well as its software and services.

PayPal Canada is collaborating with TouchBistro to allow customers to use smartphones to "check in" and pay at restaurants.

Fraudsters are once again taking a shine to using tin foil to tamper with the satellite dishes that gas stations use to transmit payment card data to authorizing banks and processors.

Developing the Starbucks mobile payment app stands as a badge of honor in the career of Chuck Davidson, who is now the head of product for CardFree, where he continues to work alongside several of the experts who helped make the Starbucks app a massive success.

PayPal's building its move into physical stores brick by brick, and its processing partnership with TSYS is one of its largest moves to date, threatening to grab payments business away from card-issuing banks.

PayPal is paying attention to locally owned stores in its initiative to support in-store payments, but the small-business segment has posed many challenges for companies that try to introduce new technology.