Payments

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

Mobile payments service Tabbedout is giving merchants the ability to deliver special offers to app users to drive traffic and build loyalty.

New York transportation company NY Waterway is rolling out a mobile payment service to let users pay for ferry tickets via an application on their mobile device.

Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen and the mobile payments app LevelUp are giving New Year’s Eve revelers in New York a chance to earn $10 worth of free food by using their mobile phones to pay for their food purchases.

Applebee’s has introduced a new Digital Gift Cards initiative that lets consumers buy and send personalized gift cards through its online, mobile and Facebook channels.

PayPal is testing an NFC mobile payments application at two stores in Sweden while it continues to look at other ways to provide access to its payments services.

The Western Pennsylvania Salvation Army is using SMS this holiday season to encourage more donations and appeal to a younger, savvy group of consumers.

Google Wallet will be not available on Samsung Galaxy Nexus phones from Verizon, a development that impacts the service’s growth going forward if other carriers also find reasons to not offer Google Wallet.

MasterCard has rolled out an ad campaign that centers around the ease of its PayPass and Google Wallet mobile service.

Cantaloupe Systems and First Data are letting consumers use Google Wallet to pay for snacks and drinks at vending machines across New York, Washington and Chicago.