Last month, Amazon officially entered the mPOS market with Amazon Local Register, focusing on helping the local retailers get local sales data and, in turn, feed Amazon and use its platform offline. How big of a dent will the e-commerce giant make in space, and...
Amazon’s been in the market for about a month with its mPOS solution and theories abound about the impact that it will have on the mPOS ecosystem. Eric Hoffman, SVP and U.S. General Manager for ROAM is pretty bullish on the opportunities that it will...
ROAM, part of Ingenico Mobile Solutions and the leading mobile commerce platform provider, announced today that its mCommerce platform was chosen by Leapfactor, a leading software company and provider of breakthrough business apps, to integrate mobile payment acceptance into its vertical-specific business applications.
News broke yesterday about Amazon’s plans to sell a branded dongle at Staples, making it the 123rd player to enter this very croweded space. But while a giant player could become a powerful new entrant, SMBs are starting to show a change of heart towards...
While omnichannel remains an important focus of most retailers, most merchants say they lack the capabilities to support it. Yet most have plans to implement mPOS by 2016. Why? Because they view it as an enabler to the biggest merchant initiative of this decade: omnichannel....
So, whaddaya know? Big retailers and micro-merchants have the very same goals: serve their customers where their customers want to buy. And mPOS is the tool they are both using to deliver that proposition. For instance, big retailers no longer think of “line busting” as...
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,...
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...
Ingenico announced yesterday that it has taken on a rebranding and launch of a new visual identity, according to a company release. Transitioning from a payments terminal provider to a seamless payment services provider, Ingenico will now be called “Ingenico Group” and will use the...
