The curse of the “Uninnovatable Product:” that rare instance of a product that simply cannot be improved with innovation because there’s nothing to improve. It’s its own apotheosis and any change is probably a bad idea, even though it seems counterintuitive that in a world...
Ingenico, a French-based global payments provider, announced today (Nov. 12) that it is partnering with Aava Mobile to launch a merchant-specific tablet that will run on Intel technology and integrate both contactless payments and point of sale management features. “Our partnership with Ingenico Group and...
TSYS and TranSend, a provider of payments infrastructure software, announced yesterday (Nov. 10) that its RevChip EMV application is certified. TranSend’s RevChip product is tailored specifically to the U.S. market and is designed to remove the complications of EMV security certification for Value-Added Resellers (VARs), Integrated...
Life was famously compared to a box of chocolates 21 years ago on the grounds that one “never knows what they’re gonna get.” Which, as it turns out, is almost a perfectly good metaphor for the payments and commerce ecosystem, though perhaps with a minor caveat. ...
While retail executives are mostly background players, this week they’ve been oddly front and center. And two execs, in particular, made the rounds on social media and 24-hour cable news. Both probably wish they hadn’t. Taco Bell Corporate Manager Benjamin Golden started the week off...
Ready. Set. Shop. That is the major takeaway from the roundup of retail headlines now that the spooky (Halloween) season is officially over. Where consumers are going to shop, how they are going to shop and, most importantly, how much they’re going to spend is...
iPad point-of-sale provider Revel Systems announced the launch of its iOS and Android application solution late last week (Oct. 23). Introducing the eCommerce mobile application solution will position Revel Systems to expand the functionality currently available in its POS platform. With the addition of the...
There’s a perfect storm brewing in payments – one that’s intensifying because of the shift to EMV. And one that could accelerate the adoption of mobile payments. But not the way that you think, says MPD CEO Karen Webster. The impressive results that merchants are...
Former head of Google Wallet and longtime PayPal senior executive Osama Bedier is ready to bring the “world’s first smart terminal” to the mPOS landscape. These days, Bedier holds the title of founder and CEO of Poynt, the maker of a new payment point of...
