Square has announced its availability in Japan, marking the mobile payment company’s first expansion outside of the North American market. As a result, Japanese can now download the Square Register app for free and accept payments with a transaction ...

Mobile payments provider Fortumo has signed Global Framework Agreements with leading operator groups Telefónica and Telenor to bring direct carrier billing services to 460 million additional subscribers worldwide. Using the BlueVia Payments API to ...

Swipely, a Rhode Island-based mobile payment platform, has received USD12m in a Series B funding round led by Shasta Ventures with participation from existing investors First Round Capital, Greylock Partners and Index Ventures. Swipely, which launched ...

CHARGE Anywhere, a provider of mobile payments software and payment gateway solutions, has registered three mobile payment solutions and achieved multiple MPOS product listings on the MasterCard Mobile Point of Sale Program website (view press ...

Vesta Corporation is launching the Vesta PayMobile wallet, a smartphone application that allows mobile operators to offer their prepaid customers core financial services (view press release). The app is powered by partnerships with Xoom, PreCash and ...