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PayPal is hoping to replace old-fashioned credit cards and even older-fashioned cash by allowing you to pay with your smartphone. The EBay Inc.-owned online payment company showed off its new phone-to-phone payment mechanism on Wednesday, including a...

Google Wallet, which was announced Thursday, may be the first major initiative to get smartphones to serve as all-in-one payment devices. But like the first boat, airplane and light bulb, it may be awhile before most people see it in......

Smartphones are about to take a major swipe at plastic. Internet search giant Google Inc. has unveiled an application that would enable consumers to use their Android smartphones to pay for products at hundreds of thousands of retail stores in the U.S....

Google Inc. is getting into your wallet. The company unveiled its "Google Wallet" product on Thursday, a digital billfold that will allow consumers to pay simply by tapping their smart phones when it's time to check out at grocery stores......

Square, the hot young start-up that is trying to allow any business anywhere to accept credit cards, just landed a marquee investor and a new infusion of cash. Square said Wednesday that it has taken a strategic investment from Visa Inc. The company...

Jack Dorsey is back full-time at Twitter, leading product development as executive chairman. DickCJackTwitter Dorsey, who is one of Twitter's co-founders and also chairman of the company's board of directors, has been in talks for the new daily...

Jack Dorsey, Twitter's chairman, might be taking on a larger role at Twitter, a report said. Jack Dorsey The co-founder of Twitter, and current CEO of mobile-payment firm Square, is in talks with Twitter's board of directors to "become something like a...

RSA, the security divison of information storage giant EMC Corp., has been hacked by intruders who breached a popular and widely used anti-hacking technology, according to the company in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. "We have determined...

Google has been hinting for months that it will roll out a mobile payment service so that shoppers can ring up their purchases with their smart phones. Now people familiar with the project are whispering to Bloomberg News that Google will begin testing...

Square, a mobile payment start-up, has fired back at allegations from a competitor, VeriFone, that it's products aren't secure. On Wednesday, VeriFone posted an open letter stating that Square's mobile credit card reader -- which pairs a mobile app with a...

Using a smartphone to process a credit card payment, especially Square’s card reader, may not be safe for consumers, according to an open letter posted Wednesday by VeriFone. The letter alleges that the Square setup is easily hacked and calls on the...

Isis mobile payment project backed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon...