Giant coffee chains Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts may have rolled out their mobile payment and loyalty apps nationwide, but that’s no reason regional chains can’t get in on the action, too. East Coast convenience store chain Wawa has launched its own mobile app featuring gift-card-based...
Global payments provider TSYS, along with Ingenico Group, recently announced a new agreement to offer merchants a seamless and secure solution for accepting all payment types, according to a TSYS release. These payment types include magnetic stripe, EMV, NFC and Apple Pay.
Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency whose supporters like to think of it as anything but ordinary, may have just gained its best chance at widespread acceptance — by being just one of the boys. Braintree, eBay’s mobile-friendly payments-processing subsidiary, said on Thursday (Jan. 22) that it has...
Videogame retailer GameStop is fighting back against online shopping with beacons that stream game content directly to customers’ smartphones when they’re in a store, according to The Wall Street Journal. The chainwide store upgrade, which is expected to start rolling out in Q2 to the...
Customers really do appreciate free Wi-Fi, it seems. A new study by IHL Group found that 28 percent of retailers who added in-store Wi-Fi said they got a boost in customer loyalty. That may not qualify as a competitive advantage, though. The survey also found...
French point-of-sale vendor Ingenico now owns 100 percent of mobile commerce platform ROAM, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. 20). Going forward, the names of ROAM’s existing individual products — which include secure mobile card readers, mobile point-of-sale applications, a mobile payments engine and professional...
Nearly a third of merchants who participated in a recent survey believe mPOS to be riskier than standard e-commerce offerings. As more merchants march onward to replace their POS systems with mobile solutions, unprotected data is providing a slew of opportunities for malware to damage...
If a company has made a pledge to grow revenues to $30 billion by 2019, and is adding hundreds of new storefronts worldwide in 2015, why would they announce layoffs at corporate headquarters — the supposed nerve center of the entire company? Also, why is...
Effective on January 15, MasterCard has appointed Michael Fiore as group executive of Global Prepaid Solutions, according to a company release. Fiore will lead the ongoing development and execution of the company’s global prepaid strategies in his new role.
