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5.5KNEW REPORT: mPOS Goes Back To School
Whether it’s a college student paying for a dining hall lunch with a selfie, or a family looking for a faster way...
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6.1KMastercard’s mPOS Shot At The Open Championship
At this summer’s British Open, Jordan Spieth served up an exhilarating finish, while, in a first for the event, fans were served...
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6.3KNEW REPORT: Mastering mPOS At The British Open
With mPOS technology, consumers around the world can pay for purchases with a tap on their phones, and businesses can accept payments...
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4.4KHow mPOS May Be The Lifeguard For Relaxation Undertow
Summer’s here and for devoted beachgoers, there’s almost nothing that can ruin a day in the sand and surf — except maybe...
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3.0KHelping Incorporate Mobile Commerce Into The Retail Endurance Juggling Act
Evolving legacy retail to an omni commerce reality can feel a lot like orchestrating a three-ring circus. In the June mPOS Tracker™,...
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7.5KNEW REPORT: mPOS And The Merchant Omnichannel Juggling Act
Modern technology has given retail merchants a multitude of new tools to help run their businesses, but it’s also given them plenty...
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8.0KSquaring The Circle That Is Square
Big ideas often start by solving a seemingly small problem. In the case of Square — the payments innovator that launched hundreds of...
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13.9KThe Future Of Parking Taps Now
Mobile point of sale is now being touted as one of the great re-inventors of the parking experience itself. For the March...
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6.0KNEW REPORT: Park The Car At The mPOS
As new mobile point of sale (mPOS) solutions become available, both merchants and investors are taking notice. Several companies are offering mPOS...
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5.7KWhen Payments Go North
With smartphone usage rising pretty much everywhere, could we be entering a golden age for mPOS providers? For the February mPOS Tracker™,...
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6.4KIs The World mPOS’ Oyster?
Consumers from Toronto to Dubai are getting their hands on smartphones, and mobile payment usage is on the rise as a result....
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5.4KAre Restaurants Ready To Let mPOS Solutions Serve Them?
Change appears to be on the menu at more local restaurants as more small establishments are finally getting on board with mobile...
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6.1KmPOS Tracker: Have mPOS Solutions Become Standard Fare For Restaurants?
Many restaurant owners started their own dining establishments because of their love of food, cooking and creativity. But is this drive to...
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8.9KWhy Mobile Payments Are Taking Off In China
When it comes to mobile payments adoption, Chinese consumers are taking the lead. And, that says Sy Choudhury, senior director of product...
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5.8KMPOS Tracker: Qualcomm On What China Can Teach The World About mPOS
When it comes to mobile payments adoption, Chinese consumers are taking the lead. And, that says Sy Choudhury, senior director of product...
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5.5KCredit Card Payments With Pedals
When mPOS and pedal powers activate, the potential for profit, it seems, is an open road. For the latest edition of the...
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6.1KMPOS Tracker: mPOS Power And Pedal Power, On A Breezy Ride?
When mPOS and pedal powers activate, the potential for profit, it seems, is an open road. For the latest edition of the...
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5.4KIn Card (On Delivery) They Trust?
We all know that trust isn’t given; it’s earned — something that’s especially true in commerce. And in Africa and the Middle...
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8.0KIn mPOS We Trust
We all know that trust isn’t given; it’s earned — something that’s especially true in commerce. And in Africa and the Middle...
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10.6KIt’s An mPOS World After All
The ability to make and accept payments for purchases is increasingly universal, and the future of mPOS may lie in universal solutions...
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SumUp, payleven mPOS Firms To Merge
Mergers are coming to mPOS. In an announcement made on Wednesday (April 27), mobile payment players SumUp and payleven said that they...
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Wirecard AG Expands mPOS Reach
Wirecard AG announced yesterday (March 30) that it is expanding the reach of its mPOS products to include another payment tablet. This...
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mPOS’ Moment Is Here And It’s Big
What marks an inflection point for an industry? More dollars? Better innovation? Consolidation? Well, mPOS has it all. In the October tracker,...
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3.2KRestaurants Take The mPOS Cake
May was a big month for the mPOS players, with the hospitality sector driving demand and user adoption. Starbucks, in the beginning...
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iZettle CEO On Its Big Apple Pay Play
Henry David Thoreau wrote that “It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”...
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Where EMV And The Cloud Take mPOS
Nearly 300 percent more retailers plan to deploy mPOS solutions to better serve their businesses, says a new report. And growth in...
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Verifone Launches Cloud-Based POS
Verifone has reached the cloud. The payment technology company announced today that it is launching Verifone Cloud POS, an Android-based cloud point-of-sale...
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Shaking Out or Settling Down?
Welcome to the monthly mPOS Tracker, a PYMNTS Special Report. In this report, we rank mPOS players and score them based on...
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3.2KAnd The “S” Stands For “Security”
Welcome to the monthly mPOS Tracker, a PYMNTS Special Report. In this report, we rank the players that we track, and score...
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The Big Problems mPOS Solves For Small Merchants
This holiday season, mPOS is on fire. In preparation for increased online and in-store sales, retailers have prepped themselves with these mobile...
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How mPOS Morphs At A Global Level
mPOS isn’t so much focused on micro-merchants anymore, according to Benoit Boudier, SVP of International Sales for ROAM. Rather, it’s become...
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What An NFC-Enabled iPad Could Mean For mPOS
Will the new Apple iPad ring the register for merchants? Scott Holt, VP of Marketing and Solutions for ROAM and MPD CEO...
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Has mPOS Reached Its Tipping Point?
The mPOS space has seen a 30 percent year-over-year growth in the last three years. In addition, 30 percent of the top...
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Why mPOS is No Exception to the Apple Pay Effect
In the weeks following the Apple Pay debut, players in the industry have been figuring out ways to complement, or compete against,...
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The Three Things That Merchants Want From mPOS
When it comes to mPOS there are only three things that merchants want: business apps, business apps, and business apps. That’s what...
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Is Amazon the Trojan Horse Into mPOS Turf?
Last month, Amazon officially entered the mPOS market with Amazon Local Register, focusing on helping the local retailers get local sales data...
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Will SMBs Turn Back to Banks for mPOS Services?
News broke yesterday about Amazon’s plans to sell a branded dongle at Staples, making it the 123rd player to enter this very...
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Is mPOS the Missing Piece to the Omnichannel Puzzle?
While omnichannel remains an important focus of most retailers, most merchants say they lack the capabilities to support it. Yet most have...
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The mPOS Retail Makeover
So, whaddaya know? Big retailers and micro-merchants have the very same goals: serve their customers where their customers want to buy. And...
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1.8KHow To Spot The mPOS Winners
The global mobile POS market is still on fire, with analysts predicting double-digit growth through 2018. But what’s driving that growth also...
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2.8KWill Wallets Mobilize Mobile Point of Sale?
Go big or go home. Recent industry trends show that top mobile point-of-sale players are now fixated on distribution – gaining scale...
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3.3KThe March 2014 MPOS Tracker™
The mPOS market is sort of splitting in two: tablet solutions that replace traditional point-of-sale devices, and smartphone solutions that enable card...
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Different mPOS Strokes for Different mPOS Folks
Developed and emerging markets are heading down two different paths when it comes to consumer use of mPOS devices, according to ROAM’s...
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1.9KWill mPOS Face Headwinds in 2014?
Several interesting dynamics are shaping the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) ecosystem and setting the market up for significant growth in 2014. As shown...
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1.1KMPOS Tracker: Market To Face Consolidation In 2014
Our latest November 2013 MPOS Tracker finds that the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) sector is in the midst of rapid expansion. But, despite...
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Who’s Falling Behind In MPOS
The mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) market is steadily moving toward an omnichannel experience that is as much about tablets as handsets, and businesses...
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Retail: The Tip Of The MPOS Iceberg
“Consumers like the convenience that [mobile point of sale] (mPOS) solutions provide in traditional retail stores and say they are willing to...
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What mPOS Needs To Move Up-Market
The number of mobile point of sale terminals worldwide jumped from 4.5 million to 9.5 million between 2011 and 2012. Analysts predict...
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Mobile Payments Means Death For One-Size-Fits-All Solutions
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...
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ROAM, Ingenico Take On mPOS Ecosystem With New Growth Strategy
French payments terminal company Ingenico is aiming to grow its annual revenue to above $2.3 billion in 2016. Essential to this growth...
