GoPayment

Intuit GoPayment and AT&T Team Up to Bring Credit Card Processing to More Small Business Owners

Verifone points in the right direction

VeriFone to Acquire Point to Build out Alternative Payments Infrastructure

VeriFone has announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Nordic Capital to acquire Point, Northern Europe’s largest provider of payment and gateway services and solutions for retailers. "VeriFone intends to extend the Point platform throughout the region and beyond, with the aim of creating the world’s largest infrastructure for rapid deployment of alternative payments."

Square latest

Square Adds Loyalty and Printed Receipts

Square has rolled out an update to their various mobile apps that adds a loyalty capability for Square merchants, and the ability to generated printed receipts on the fly. A number of media outlets have the details – TechCrunch and GigaOM have good overviews. The Square site has the details.

V.me

Visa Digital Wallet To Be Named "V.me"

Visa has told AllThingsD that it will use V.me as the go-to-market brand for its new Visa Digital Wallet. The company had said earlier that the online wallet would have its own acceptance mark that differentiates the new multi-card brand wallet from the traditional Visa acceptance mark.
In a related "development", Visa has also announced the launch of a new developer center (developer.visa.com) that brings together tools and resources for V.me, CyberSource, Authorize.net, PlaySpan, and Fundamo.

Buffett get's the blues

Warren Buffett buys IBM stake with $10.7bn investment

14 November 2011 Last updated at 13:09 ET Warren Buffett said he did not tell IBM's boss about his investment before revealing it on US television Warren Buffett - one of the world's most closely watched investors - has bought...

MasterCard and Intel drive NFC

Published: 14 November, 2011 - 09:45MasterCard and Intel team on NFC for e-commerceMasterCard has teamed up with chip giant Intel to make online shopping simpler and more secure by letting customers tap their cards or phones against computers to complete payments.

Mobile Payments will create the most significant revenue opportunities of the decade for financial institutions.

Dialling up a storm

PwC explains how mobile payments will create the most significant revenue opportunities of the decade for financial institutions.Changes to the payments ecosystem from the advent of mobile services put more than $20 billion in play for financial services industry participants - through both new revenue opportunities and potential loss mitigation. Inaction is no longer an option argues PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Kill Credit Cards

The 28-Year-Old Working to Kill Credit Cardsbusinessinsider.com · via Pierre-Antoine Vacheron

The founder of a tiny, 12-person startup in Des Moines, Iowa wants to ensure that credit cards don't exist in the next few years. He's creating an innovative online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely.

Blackberry opens new doors

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