A new partnership between a payment technology company and a retail-centric software development and distribution company has brought cloud-based services to Microsoft POS units. It was announced this week that Retail Realm — a leading distributor of Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management Systems (RMS), Microsoft Dynamics AX...
As of the writing of this, something truly unusual is going on. Apple’s stock is trading at less than $100 a share. Certainly the team in Cupertino is not the only one feeling the market’s wrath this week, but it does serve as an...
The mPOS market is expected to grow at a rate of 50 percent annually — and that’s just in America. To enable this ease, companies are working to get mPOS devices agile and ready to accept all forms of payments. The PYMNTS mPOS TrackerTM for...
There is no shortage of players racing for dominance in the mobile point of sale game in the United States. Well-known players on the list include Square, Stripe and Clover — but there are quite literally hundreds of others. And though the marketplace is more saturated today than...
Square has reached a milestone. As part of larger story on the future of the credit card processing company, TechCrunch shares that Square’s App Marketplace has connected 100,000 merchant users, double the number that were connected as of January of last year. Square tells TechCrunch...
Despite appearances earlier this week that Apple had lost out on bringing Apple Pay to China — with UnionPay’s announcement that it had selected British firm Powa to help it construct and launch its mobile payments platform — it seems appearances can be highly deceiving. Apple Inc....
Almost no one in the world is familiar with the name Cornelius McGillicuddy, and only the most avid baseball fans would know him better by his nickname, Connie Mack. Mack, FYI, was a baseball player in the early days of the professional game in the...
The latest addition to Verifone’s mobile point-of-sale solution offerings is keeping independent and micro-merchants in mind. Verifone said the durable and compact nature of its e265 mPOS terminal will enable merchants to bring globally certified payment acceptance directly to consumers, no matter the merchant environment. “Imagine...
Remember that time Tim Cook said that 2015 was going to be the “year of Apple Pay?” Well, it might have taken just about 11 months, but it looks like Walmart has formulated a response. Sure, Walmart’s announcement today (Dec. 10) that it is taking the mobile...
