On the web:

• PayPal to team up with Russian Post - The Moscow News
• Square Card Case is Now an Improved 'Pay with Square' - CNET News
• Groupon buys 'FeeFighters' to Support Merchant Community - VentureBeat
• NFC Software And Reader Developer ViVOtech Raises More Cash - TechCrunch
• Is the Internet the World's Largest Crime Scene? - Portals and Rails
• Bitcoin Doesn't Need a Dongle - Forbes

On the wires:

• iovation and TeleSign Pair Device Reputation Management With Intelligent Authentication to Fight Online Fraud
• Super Sprowtz to Offer Virtual Piggy as Secure E-Commerce Solution for Online Checkout
• Seamless: SEQR will be part of Sweden’s largest POS system, Extenda

On the web:

• FTC to Review Mobile Payments Impact on U.S. Consumers - NFCNews
• Starbucks Says It's Number One in World in Mobile Payments - AuctionBytes
• Experiments in Virtual Currencies - MarketingVOX

On the wires:

• Simply Market Streamlines eInvoicing Through Ariba’s b-process
• Campus Apartments First to Offer Residents Ability to Pay Rent Through Facebook
• Live Gamer Partners with PaymentOne to Expand International Mobile Payment Options
• GE Capital Retail Bank Announces New Agreement to Provide Credit Card Program for Toys“R”Us
• iovation Stopped 50 Million Online Fraud Attempts in 2011, Biggest International Offender: Ghana
• Citi Launches First Account Analysis Tools for Credit Card Users on the iPad
• T-Mobile To Distribute Square Card Readers to Small Businesses
• Sabre Launches Travel Settlement Services Powered by Conferma
• CyberSource Announces Renewed Agreement With Facebook
• New Mercator Report on Next Generation EFT Networks

On the web:

• PayPal's Thompson on Cloud-Based Mobile Payments (Video Interview) - Bloomberg
• Mokipay Enables Mobile Payments in Lithuania (via NFC sticker) - ArcticStartup
• Mexico Remittances Rise the Most in 5 Years on Cheaper Peso - Businessweek
• PayPal to Open Global Operations Center in Malaysia - WSJ.com

On the wires:

• Braintree Now Processing $4 Billion Per Year
• Using MoneyGram to Send Money Now Supported Online at Walmart.com
• U.S. Bank Launches the New Visa Convenient Cash Card
• iovation and AliasLab Launch Fraud Protection and Device Identification Services to Southern Europe
• Travelex Introduces Chip & PIN-Enabled Prepaid Foreign Currency Card in Canada

Headline News is compiled by Glenbrook Partners:

• New Mercator Report on Top 50 Debit Card Issuers Loyalty and Rewards Programs
• Ukash, the Global e-Money Network, Chooses iovation Fraud Protection

• Bloomberg: Senate's Durbin Plans to Seek Limits on `Abusive' Prepaid Debit-Card Fees
• Sacramento Business Journal: Wells Fargo ATMs speak Russian
• Reuters: Plastic Posse: Credit Card Winners and Cards They Love
• Collections & Credit Risk: Building Credit By Paying Bills: An Alternative To Secured Cards?

iovation has announced that it "helped eCommerce companies stop more than 3.5 million fraudulent activities in 2008. Using innovative device reputation technology to identify computers that have been associated with fraud or abuse in the past, iovation enables online businesses to proactively block bad transactions before they happen to reduce fraudulent activities and other unwanted behavior across multiple industries." READ MORE »

iovation has announced that mobile payments provider Obopay is implementing iovation ReputationManager, iovation’s device-based fraud management service, 'to reduce the risk of online payment fraud by enhancing its ability to proactively identify devices that have been associated with fraudulent activity.'

Accertify and iovation have announced a partnership to help online merchants fight credit card fraud. Accertify will offer iovation's ReputationManager, a real-time device-based fraud management service, as a part of its Interceptas solution. Accertify says that "Interceptas is the first integrated platform designed from the merchant’s perspective for combating card-not-present fraud, enabling the complete fraud prevention process to be managed with one comprehensive and highly flexible solution."

Intel Capital has announced a $10 million investment in iovation, a Portland, Oregon-based company that provides online security and fraud protection services. The company says it provides "the first device reputation service aimed at protecting business on the Internet. The real-time service prevents online fraud including charge-backs, identity theft, phishing, click fraud and other abuses of online services."

iovation has announced the release of AccountLock, a "family of authentication products that guard against unauthorized account access while offering multiple levels of user control, visibility and implementation stages depending on institution's needs."