POS and Retail

Gravity Payments now allows PayPal card acceptance at about 10,000 merchants in Washington State.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a philanthropic organization, began accepting donations in ripple or XRP, the native digital currency of the Ripple network.

Taco John’s, a West-Mex fast food chain, is launching the cloud-based FreedomPay Commerce Platform at more than 400 locations nationwide.

PayAnywhere will provide mobile credit card processing to Camp Masters, the popcorn brand sold by the Boy Scouts of America for fundraising.

Chirpify, which handles payments over social media, is launching a direct payment processing option, overcoming its reliance on PayPal’s service.

Consumers today are social media addicts, and Getonic is aiming to use their Facebook and Twitter habits to the advantage of online merchants.

How consumers conduct PayPal transactions across the Discover Network demonstrates a shift in how the eBay unit approaches its transition to becoming an in-store payments option.

MasterCard will make the card network's Expert Monitoring Fraud Scoring for Merchants available to Kount's merchant clients.

American Express and ShopRunner are promoting a system designed to mitigate online 'cart abandonment' as more e-commerce moves to mobile devices.

Tango Card is pitching its online gift card platform as a way to let big companies provide small-dollar awards to their employees.

EVO Payments International LLC has completed its acquisition of Deutsche Card Services, which was a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank.

Three years ago, Visa executives told investors that one of their goals was to enter new businesses, but Visa CEO Charlie Scharf, who joined the company in October, says that is no longer the case.

VeriFone is blunt about the issues plaguing the terminal maker and is working to restore its customers' confidence as it seeks a permanent chief executive.

Signature Card Services will give away EMV-enabled point of sale terminals to client merchants in the U.S. in an attempt to ease the transition to the chip-card standard.

Merchant Warehouse will make its Genius payments and marketing platform available to Retail Pro International LLC customers in what amounts to "future-proofing and a lot more" for the merchant payment terminals, says CEO Henry Helgeson.

Total Merchant Services, a 17-year-old Woodland Hills, Calif.-based ISO, began transforming itself into a more tech-oriented company a year-and-a-half ago when the founders, brothers Ed and Matt Freedman, hired Joe Kaplan as CEO.

A group of small businesses filed a lawsuit challenging New York's law prohibiting merchants from imposing surcharges to make up for the fees they must remit when customers pay with a credit card.

As EMV-chip cards spread, with most U.S. merchants expected to accept the card by October 2015, there is still a major hurdle to overcome as consumers either resist the change or remain oblivious to it.

Card-linked offers, a concept commonly seen as a lure to attract consumers to use mobile wallets, is growing in popularity with plain old plastic.

Believe.in, a U.K. company that provides technology for accepting donations online, has a no-fee structure that allows charities to receive donations using technology from Stripe.