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How mPOS Ignites New Revenue Opportunities
August 12, 2013

What can mobile devices do to improve the top line at QSRs? Plenty. From shortening wait times to powering new lines of business to serving as back up technology, mobile devices – and the enabling platforms that power them – are opening a new world of options...

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What mPOS Needs To Move Up-Market
August 06, 2013

The number of mobile point of sale terminals worldwide jumped from 4.5 million to 9.5 million between 2011 and 2012. Analysts predict that over the next five years, mPOS terminals will continue to proliferate, reaching 38 million by 2017. Those findings come from PYMNTS’ June...

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The Biggest mPOS Surprises Of 2013
July 25, 2013

Welcome to PYMNTS.com’s Midyear Review: a look into what the leaders of the payments industry have seen and accomplished this calendar year, and how they see trends playing out for the rest of 2013. We ask a top executive from each payments player the same...

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QSRs Cook Up MPOS Innovation
June 20, 2013

The MPOS revolution is changing the way businesses across many verticals operate. But perhaps no merchant base is better suited to benefit from this shift than the quick service restaurant (QSR) industry. Described by Food Service Warehouse as restaurants known for “fast, efficient take-out-ready foods...

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Build Vs. Buy: The MPOS Conundrum
June 19, 2013

To build an MPOS solution, or to buy one: that is the question. As retailers and merchants look to build out their unique mobile point of sale platforms, they’re faced with no shortage of difficult questions. How can they produce a solution specific enough to...

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Mobile Payments Means Death For One-Size-Fits-All Solutions
June 06, 2013

Hardware is the razor, and software is the blade. That’s the strongest analogy made in PYMNTS.com’s May 2013 edition of our MPOS Tracker: a monthly report designed to organize a chaotic and dynamic MPOS ecosystem. This month’s iteration highlighted the increasing importance of software in...

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ROAM Evolves mPayments Platform With ROAMpay X4
April 24, 2013

If you want to be a real player in the mobile point of sale space, you better do more than simply accept card payments. That’s why ROAM believes it has a “true mobile point of sale application” in its new platform, ROAMpay X4. Why does...

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ROAM, Ingenico Take On mPOS Ecosystem With New Growth Strategy
April 16, 2013

French payments terminal company Ingenico is aiming to grow its annual revenue to above $2.3 billion in 2016. Essential to this growth is mobile point of sale powerhouse ROAM. Just a few weeks ago Ingenico laid out plans during its Investor Day to accelerate its...

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ROAM Focuses On International, Mobile Growth With New Exec
April 09, 2013

Scott Goldthwaite was named new Senior Vice President of Operations at ROAM less than two weeks ago, on April 1, 2013. A man with experience at payments innovators such as Payment Planet, Hypercom, WAY Systems and other companies, Goldthwaite’s resume speaks for itself when it...