In today’s NFL, the proverbial best seat in the house isn’t always going to be found at the 50-yard line of the nearest stadium. In fact, the in-home viewing experience has become so specialized through replays and high-definition broadcasts that booking oneself a staycation for...
It’s clearly not business as usual in the point-of-sale world. Not only are customers expecting easier, faster and more secure methods at checkout, but so are retailers. And that means that merchants must be more nimble, more mobile and able to more easily integrate...
It would appear that First Data is circling Square — as prospective competition, that is. The commerce technology company announced on Friday (Jan. 15) that it is releasing Clover Go, which — similar to Square’s offering — is an EMV-enabled card reader that plugs into an iOS or...
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....
