Payments

Visa Inc. has rolled out a suite of new mobile services that lets financial institutions offer their account holders the ability to monitor account history and balances.

The Girl Scouts may be a 100-year-old organization but it is also firmly planted in the 21st century now that the young saleswomen selling much-loved cookies are accepting payments via their mobile devices.

President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are using mobile payment service Square to drive fundraising efforts, signaling a shift in consumer behavior towards mobile payments.

Burger chain Five Guys Burgers & Fries is boosting repeat orders by using a credit card-on-file feature that allows customers to easily and securely place online orders via mobile or Web.

Starbucks’ mobile payment app is helping drive more frequent purchases and contributing to the company’s revenue growth, a company executive revealed during its first-quarter earnings call.

Two Google employees closely associated with its Google Wallet initiative have recently either left the company or moved on to other projects in a possible reflection of the challenges that Google is facing in the mobile payments space.

MasterCard is running an NFC pilot program at movie theaters in Australia that lets consumers pay for food and drink items via their mobile devices.

Office Depot is the latest big box retailer to test PayPal’s point-of-sale that lets shoppers pay for in-store purchases by typing in their mobile phone number and a PIN.

This could be a mobile-tastic year for eBay, with the company predicting it will do $8 billion in mobile gross merchandise volume and $7 billion in mobile total payment volume in 2012.

Big box retailer Home Depot is ramping up its mobile strategy by testing a PayPal-enabled mobile payment solution at select stores.