Over the weekend Target had customers chirping about the company on Twitter, but not in a positive way. According to CNBC’s twitter feed, the Minnesota-based retailer explained through Twitter that the delays customers were experiencing in checkout lanes across the country was “not related to...
Proxama and PrePay Solutions (PPS) have partnered to provide mobile contactless payment solutions to PPS customers, according to StockMarketWire.com. PPS, which is co-owned by MasterCard and EdenRed would collaborate with Proxama to employ Host Card Emulation technology that facilitates closed loop, contactless mobile solution for...
The global mobile POS market is still on fire, with analysts predicting double-digit growth through 2018. But what’s driving that growth also happens to be what will define who’ll win in the end. Ingenico’s Jean Marc Thienpont, EVP Mobile Payments Solutions and COO of ROAM,...
What’s in a vending machine? Beyond the shiny new products allowing brick and mortar stores to branch out with distribution, there is perhaps a certain value in unattended retail machines that are changing the landscape of payments as we speak. In a recent podcast interview...
We admit it – we thought that just bringing you the monthly updates on mPOS was getting a little long of tooth. So, we decided to get a little “jiggy” with the mPOS Tracker. Starting this month, we’ll be going well beyond tracking only the...
Tech company NCR Corp. announced this week that it had developed a new way to prevent customers from “show rooming” in brick and mortar stores, which will ideally lead to better sales for those retailers. Show rooming is when customers visit stores to see items...
Lilly Pulitzer’s In the Pink stores are currently the design chain’s largest string of retail stores in the U.S. Recently, the elite retail option took an important step forward in terms of its payments processing. Last month, In the Pink launched a mobile point-of-sale (POS)...
Sometimes an acquisition makes the most sense, while other times a simple partnership will help fill a product or service gap. Whatever the strategy, anticipated growth in point-of-sale demands has the acquiring industry in collaboration mode as key players look to fill emerging market needs.
The US celebrated Memorial Day this past week, but it might as well have been the 4th of July. Fireworks exploded in the bitcoin community over David Evans’ piece on Overstock’s acceptance of bitcoin, including from Patrick Byrnes himself. Then there were those pesky bots.
