Mobile Commerce

Payments platform Klarna AB announced a series of new services, including Shopping lens, which enables shoppers to take a picture of an item in their surroundings to find out where to buy it on the best terms. The service uses artificial intelligence to render the item in a search term. Technology consultancy Thoughtworks said …

Paze, an online wallet still in development, will be available to merchants using GoDaddy Inc.’s Web services. Paze is available for testing to select U.S. businesses on the GoDaddy platform. In March, at the announcement of Paze, Early Warning Services LLC, its developer, said full availability would arrive this autumn, …

The processor Worldpay said it will work with Masabi, a provider of technology for transit-fare payments, to offer an EMV platform for what the pair call “transit agencies of all sizes.” Health-care payments specialist RevSpring unveiled new features of its Engage IQ platform that includes updated messaging, the ability to use graphics in email …

Slake IT LLC on Monday launched a food-delivery app that enables consumers to pay for orders using cryptocurrency in addition to credit cards. The company, which is supporting the Ethereum platform to enable crypto payments, has partnered with drivers of multiple food-delivery companies, including DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, to …

Rainforest, an Atlanta-based platform for embedded payments, has closed on an $11.75-million seed funding round led by Accel. Beverly, Mass., has contracted with Passport for support of mobile payments for parking in the town. Passport claims more than 800 cities and other entities using the app. Instant Financial, a provider of earned-wage …

A new lawsuit filed Thursday against PayPal Holdings Inc. alleges the online powerhouse uses illegally anticompetitive policies that increase costs for consumers. Filed by Hagens Berman, a law firm that specializes in class-action litigation, the suit contends that PayPal prohibits merchants that work with it to offer pricing discounts when …

In North American payments, full-suite processors—those that perform direct authorization and interchange for branded networks, including Visa and Mastercard—belong to an exclusive club. But many still rely on what would otherwise be considered commercially obsolete infrastructure. All of them grew up in a world where magstripe was leading edge, payment …

Galileo Financial Technologies LLC has expanded its buy now, pay later offering to small businesses for business-to-business purchases. The offering is available to lenders and fintechs using Galileo’s technology. They will have the option to customize the total number of installment payments for BNPL loans, according to Galileo. Galileo, which …

One of the first forecasts for the upcoming 2023 holiday shopping period predicts that mobile devices will overtake desktop ones for e-commerce for the first time. Adobe Inc., in its Nov. 1-to-Dec. 31 holiday-shopping forecast, released Thursday, forecasts that U.S. online holiday sales will reach $221.8 billion, a 4.8% increase …

Location-technology vendor Mapbox launched MapGPT, an automobile-based voice assistant incorporating generative artificial intelligence. Among its features is an ability to process payments, starting in Japan with that country’s PayPay app. Stop & Shop and Food Lion have adopted a mobile shopping app from Peapod Digital Labs, an e-commerce technology developer for Ahold Delhaize …