On the web:

• Square To Sell Card Readers At AT&T Stores - Reuters
• ‎Quiet During the Wallet Wars, Visa Readies V.me for a Year-End Rollout - Digital Transactions
• Square Clone Payleven Hits UK, Brazil, Confirms Double-Digit Million Funding - VentureBeat
• Pointing to the Future: Biometrics Crucial for Data Protection - Portals and Rails
• Walmart Tests iPhone App Checkout Feature - Reuters

On the wires:

• mopay Study Reveals Consumers’ Spending Behavior Via Direct Carrier Billing
• Western Union Launches International Business Payments Services in Chile, Cyprus and Jordan
• Discover Financial Services and Russian Standard Bank Announce Discover Card Issuance in Russia

U.S. Bank has announced that Visa Mobile is now available to select U.S. Bank debit card holders. Visa Mobile bundles alerts, offers, and a locator service -enabling cardholders to manage their U.S. Bank Visa accounts with near-real time updates. The application can be downloaded to mobile devices powered by Android, the Open Handset Alliance’s open source platform for mobile devices. READ MORE »

Visa and NeuStar have announced a strategic alliance they say is "designed to accelerate the adoption of mobile financial services globally." According to the companies, "the alliance will combine the reliability, scale and security of Visa’s global payment network with NeuStar’s carrier grade infrastructure which provides critical interconnection services to global network operators and their partners enabling seamless delivery of mobile services to consumers worldwide." READ MORE »

Visa has announced that Visa Mobile is now operational on mobile devices powered by Android, the Open Handset Alliance’s open source platform for mobile devices, including the T-Mobile G1 phone. READ MORE »

ReadWriteWeb reports on Visa's new Mobile Application for Google's Android-powered mobile handsets. Visa Mobile delivers three services - Alerts, Offers, and Locator - to help find merchants and Visa ATM's. The Visa mobile website says that it is available now for select Chase Visa cardholders. An FAQ is available. READ MORE »