Retailers

Visa Inc. now counts Overstock.com Inc. among the list of retailers accepting its V.me digital wallet.

As VeriFone Systems Inc. seeks new leadership to help it tackle its ongoing challenges, smaller rivals are looking at their own operations to determine which opportunities to seize in the payments hardware market.

Genesco's $13 million lawsuit against Visa Inc., filed last week in a Tennessee court, has a similar ring to it as a countersuit Cisero's Ristorante and Nightclub in Park City, Utah filed last year against its acquiring bank and processor.

In the low-margin farming industry, companies are particularly sensitive to credit card transaction fees or the time it takes for checks to clear. Dwolla has started targeting these industries with its alternative payment service.

Tranzlogic LLC is targeting independent sales organizations to scale its customer intelligence and marketing strategy more quickly than it could by selling to end users.

Payair's technology supports many mobile-payment methods, but the Swedish company is promoting only the most straightforward forms through its integration with Cash IT.

Apple's Passbook wallet is a blank canvas for developers of mobile payment apps. Some Passbook apps take a conventional approach to payments, and others put a more imaginative spin on what a mobile wallet can be.

An embedded feature of the Samsung Wallet on the upcoming Galaxy S4 smartphone could give merchants an easier and cheaper way to accept mobile payments and coupons at the point of sale.

The U.S. may not follow other countries' lead in forcing EMV chip-card users to use a PIN, but data from a biannual Federal Reserve Board survey indicates there is value to sticking with PIN.

Intuit is making Inuit Pay generally available in the UK, enabling businesses to accept credit and debit payments in person and over the phone.

The company’s new iPad app can perform many of the same functions as its iPhone app, such as accepting PayPal and swiped card payments. The iPad app is being targeted at businesses that require hardware more robust than an iPhone to accept payments, yet don’t have a point-of-sale system.

In an interview with PaymentsSource, Cohen describes the opportunities that arise for companies like Merchant Warehouse amid the rapid changes taking place in the payments industry.

Independent sales organizations and agents can use automated clearing house and credit card data to identify the most likely prospects for transaction services.

Carrier-integrated mobile payment provider BilltoMobile will handle payments for NCSOFT Corp.’s online games in North America.

A shareholder lawsuit alleges current and former VeriFone executives made false and misleading statements about the company's financial performance to artificially inflate the stock price—duping unsuspecting investors and allowing executives to cash in millions of dollars' worth of stock.

Belt Valley Bank is small even by community bank standards—it's got about $62 million in assets and 18 employees. But it has the tools to compete directly with the likes of Square for accepting payments on mobile devices.

PayPal's recent updates to its software tools for developers provide a clue to its long-term plans for the Card.io, the mobile payments tech provider PayPal bought last year.

Doug Bergeron's departure as CEO of VeriFone comes at a time when the point of sale terminal manufacturer disclosed that it has engaged in business dealings with Iran that may have been prohibited by recently enacted sanctions against the Middle Eastern country, as well as a recently filed shareholder lawsuit alleging securities fraud.

Doug Bergeron will step down from his roles as CEO and a board member at VeriFone, effective March 12, the point of sale terminal maker said today.

Just three months after reaching 500,000 users, LevelUp hit one million customers, with a meaningful portion of that new audience attracted by adapting the company's offer system to work over Facebook.