At long last, Google has launched its Google Wallet mobile payment application on Sprint Nexus S 4G smartphones.

The availability of Google Wallet will be announced within weeks.

DataCell briefly accepted 'thousands' of WikiLeaks donations via a new payment processor, before Visa shut it down again.

PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the area of mobile payments and point-of-sale strategies.

Computer system problems at one of Japan's biggest banks continued on Friday, with Mizuho Bank unable to process salary payments for more than half a million people. The bank also said its Internet banking service and ATMs would be offline over Japan's upcoming three-day weekend.

Alcatel-Lucent has agreed to make payments of over US$137 million to settle bribery cases brought by U.S. authorities.

The rancorous lawsuit between SAP and Waste Management has been settled, with the software vendor making an undisclosed, one-time cash payment to the trash hauler, according to court documents and a regulatory filing.

A bankok pénzügyi tranzakció-költségeinek csökkentése, valamint a SEPA előírásoknak (Egységes Európai Pénzforgalmi Övezet) való megfelelés érdekében az Accenture és az SAP bejelentették az SAP Payment Engine névre hallgató fizetési platformot.

A string of payment card issuers have confirmed that they will introduce contactless "wave and pay" cards from September in the U.K.

Database problems at the Bacs clearing system have left up to 400,000 people in the U.K. awaiting their salary payments.

Tokyo taxi passengers will soon be able to start paying for their rides using electronic money, three taxi fleet operators said this week.