Mobile Commerce

Apple Inc. will let developers enable purchases outside of its App Store, marking a change that previously prohibited such action. The move comes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court this week declining to hear appeals from either Apple or Epic Games in their court saga. Epic sued Apple …

Visa Inc. said it has closed on its acquisition of Pismo, a card-issuing and banking platform operating in Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The announcement follows Visa’s agreement in June to acquire Pismo for $1 billion in cash. Payments-technology company Brightwell said it will implement Visa Direct to enable payouts to eligible bank accounts and …

Payments-platform provider Payroc LLC has launched PayByCloud, low-code, semi-integrated technology for independent software vendors that establishes a cloud-based connection between Payroc’s application hosted on a payment device and the Payroc gateway.  PayByCloud is intended to eliminate the friction of connecting software to payment devices in the cloud, without the need …

Nuvei Corp. said it has agreed to process e-commerce transactions for Galeries Lafayette UAE, a unit of French Department Stores LLC. Linnworks, an e-commerce inventory and order-management software provider, said it is working with Lightspeed Commerce Inc. to enable Linnworks clients to connect to Lightspeed Retail. Fintech Varo Bank N.A. announced it is offering a …

MagicCube Inc. has partnered with processor Shift4 Payments Inc. to make its iAccept softPOS application available to Shift4 merchants. MagicCube’s i-Accept app turns Android smart phones and tablets into PCI-compliant payment devices that can accept contactless payments using tap-to-pay with or without a PIN. The deal is considered a boost …

With a variety of checkout strategies confronting merchants, NCR Voyix, which styles itself the “world’s largest self-checkout vendor,” has launched new self-checkout technology that relies on a software-as-a-service foundation that enables stores to offer barcode scanning, contactless payments, and other features. The company’s announcement came on the opening day of …

Banking giant Bank of America Corp. reported combined credit and debit card volume of $228.9 billion for the fourth quarter, up 3% year-over-year. The number of BofA users of the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network grew 18% to 21.5 million, while Zelle volume climbed 25% to $101 billion. Late in 2021, the …

Despite its formidable reach, the social-media platform X faces a steep climb to achieve its goal of launching a peer-to-peer payments service, according to payments experts. X, formerly known as Twitter, announced in a blog post earlier this week its plans to add P2P payments to its platform this year …

On Nov. 20, 2023, Mastercard Inc. announced that its Chinese joint venture with Netsunion to process domestic payments had been approved by the People’s Bank of China and the National Administration of Financial Regulation. Was it a victory for, or a mockery of, free trade? If this landmark approval were …

Sift, a provider of technology to prevent online fraud, said it has been engaged by Underdog, an online sports-fantasy platform, to prevent the use of stolen payment credentials. Darwinium, a fraud-prevention provider, said it will work with email-address technology from AtData to enable clients to identify fraudulent emails. Digital authentication …