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...
Square has been replaced at Starbucks. Going forward, JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) will do the payments processing for America’s favorite coffee hub through its Chase Commerce Solutions division. That will include all non-mobile payments and also entail the upgrade of all of Starbuck’s POS terminals to...
There are a variety of visions for what the bank of the future should be — a coffee shop, a digital destination accessible mainly from a smartphone — but for the good folks over at Number26, the bank of the future basically isn’t a bank...
Marty McFly, from the legendary 1985 movie “Back to the Future,” clearly missed the future of the point of sale. The day after the mythical day that McFly traveled “back to the future” – Oct. 21, 2015 – Verifone launched what it describes as the future...
There is almost nothing in life worse than having to publicly deliver on high expectations. A situation that the good people at First Data (FDC) learned rather directly last week. Before the opening bell was rung, some speculated that First Data’s IPO would attract enough...
As the good people at Morton Salt first said in 1911, “when it rains, it pours.” And last week that rain came in the form of IPOs, with big updates from Square, big news for the widely coveted Worldpay and something of a big letdown for...
Whole Foods announced this week that it will be pairing up with Infor to completely redesign and upgrade its ERP systems — a move that is actually a whole lot bigger than making sure its backend runs better. It’s using its logistics system to better...
