Modern smartphones can do just about anything, but not many people know how easily they can replace those old cash registers and allow your store to accept credit and debit cards instantly. All you ...

The profusion of apps for smartphones certainly seems to know no bounds, and while NFC based payment seems set to become the dominant form of cashless transaction, smartphone peripherals that allow ...

PayPal today unveiled its new global payment platform for small and medium-sized businesses, PayPal Here. It brings the veteran payments solution into local stores with a new mobile app-card reader ...

Amazon just announced its new Local Register service, a mobile card reader and app that allows merchants to swipe cards and take payments without a traditional card reader. The service is akin to ...

A seemingly unremarkable magnetic-stripe card reader from a software company specializing in payment applications for users of eBay Inc.'s online merchant marketplace and its PayPal payment system is ...

Online retail giant Amazon took a swipe at credit card processing services Wednesday with the debut of its latest service: a credit and debit card reader which plugs into a phone or a tablet, ...

Earlier this week, PayPal mentioned plans to compete against Square, Intuit and other credit card payment processors. The company aims to become yet another way to process credit cards on the go for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The PayPal Here credit card transaction app is now available for Windows 8.1 users, and PayPal ...

Hear that? That's the sound of coins hitting the mental floor at a breakneck pace, and if PayPal's meteoric success is any indication of how it'll do in mobile... well, stockholders should be pleased.

Amazon has introduced a card reader coupled with smartphone and tablet apps that aim to provide small businesses with a way to accept mobile payments. The company is positioning its Amazon Local ...