PNC Merchant Services has begun offering Clover Station, a tablet-based point of sale system, to restaurant owners and managers.

A popular Pan-Asian restaurant chain in the U.K. will begin accepting payments for online take-out orders through Visa's V.me digital wallet.

Former Google and PayPal payments executive Osama Bedier has joined WePay as the payment company makes a major push to court developers.

Mobile commerce provider CardFree, whose executives have ties to Starbucks' successful mobile payments app, has received a U.S. patent for technology that integrates reservation, payment pre-authorization and transaction management with a merchant's point of sale system.

Daniel Lee has been accepting Bitcoin at his family's seven retail stores in Fort Greene, Brooklyn since March 2013 by having customers send the digital currency to wallet addresses he manages.

While global shipments of mobile point of sale devices reached 8.4 million units in 2013—a 53% increase over 2012—more than 1.3 million of the devices went unused during the year, according to new research from ISH Technology.

Banks and debt collectors are taking over courtrooms to press consumers for payments. Local officials see these 'rocket dockets' as a way to cope with a deluge of collections suits. But their judicial appearance may also mislead debtors into believing they face offers they can't refuse.

Whole Foods Market has agreed to use multiple versions of Square Inc.'s mobile payments technology.

MoneyGram plans to restructure its executive lineup and other aspects of its organization as it works to expand consumer-facing services and manage its investments in anti-fraud and compliance programs.

More people worldwide will be able to transfer funds to users of the mobile money transfer service M-Pesa due to a new partnership with Vodafone and Moneygram.

Payveris and D3 Banking are integrating their technology to allow banks and credit unions to use Payveris' digital payments functions with D3 Banking's multichannel digital banking service.

Pizza Patron is integrating Revel Systems' mobile point of sale system into its more than 100 restaurant locations, which had been using several different vendors' products to accept payments.

The Currency Cloud, an international payments provider, has extended its reporting functionality to allow clients to follow their outgoing and incoming transactions to speed up payments.

The recent retail data breaches are drawing attention to instant card issuance as a way to repair consumer relationships.

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox said customers can take out cash "as normal" and it's working to resolve technical issues that prompted it to halt withdrawals of the digital currency.

The Russian government has outlawed the use of Bitcoin.

Facebook Connect, which lets Internet users log into other websites by typing their Facebook credentials, seems to be everywhere. But perhaps it should not be in mobile payments, SCVNGR's LevelUp has decided.

Financial software company Misys has boosted its retail banking offerings by purchasing IND Group for an undisclosed price.

As more detail comes to light about how Target's data breach occurred, retailers need to completely rethink their approach to protecting card data.

Every couple weeks a new group of mainstream merchants and payments providers begins accepting Bitcoin, the popular and often controversial digital currency.