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EMV As mPOS Competitive Advantage
July 07, 2016

The land of mPOS opportunity? Since last October’s EMV liability shift, the U.S. market has captured the attention of several global mPOS providers, including several that once thought the U.S. was too much of a red ocean. For the July edition of the mPOS Tracker™,...

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Ingenico Partners On Pop-Up POS System
June 17, 2016

It’s probably not much of a reassurance to developers that have to ride along with the tremors of an unstable retail market, but as long as there are merchants around to sell, they’ll need companies like Ingenico to make the sales happen. That’s exactly what...

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When Mobility Helps You Park
June 10, 2016

Gone are the days of rummaging through car ashtrays for quarters to feed the meter. Brad Powers, CTO of Passport, tells PYMNTS that consumers can now pull out their phones and pay from an app. The June edition of the mPOS Tracker™ features more from...

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Eliminating Parking’s Third Biggest Friction
June 09, 2016

Gone are the days of rummaging through car ashtrays for quarters to feed the meter. Brad Powers, CTO of Passport, tells PYMNTS that consumers can now pull out their phones and pay from an app. The June edition of the mPOS Tracker™ features more from...

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Study Says Feeding Managers Data Can Boost Sales
May 31, 2016

Data is endemic to the retail process at this point, but the question of how deep down the organizational tree that data goes is still an unanswered one. Some merchants wield store-by-store data like trade secrets, but a new study indicates that a more open...

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The Next (Wearable) Frontier of POS
May 26, 2016

Most wearables are consumer devices that keep tabs on steps climbed or emails or texts received. LibriSpark CEO Jeremy Feldman tells PYMNTS in this month’s Developer Tracker™ that the technology is now available to help merchants reinvent the POS – by wearing it. He’s not...

Groupon Sells Breadcrumb POS Business
May 10, 2016

Groupon has served up its own restaurant point-of-sale business to another company. The restaurant technology startup Upserve (formerly Swipely) announced yesterday (May 9) that it has acquired Breadcrumb, the POS business that Groupon picked up in 2012. In exchange, Groupon is receiving — rather than...

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mPOS Brings Clover A Little Luck
May 06, 2016

The evolution of mobile point-of-sale systems has allowed merchants to create new business models and innovative practices. In the May edition of the mPOS Tracker™, PYMNTS spoke with Ayr Muir, Founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, about how his decision to use a custom...

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mPOS: Keep On (Food) Truckin’
May 05, 2016

The evolution of mobile point-of-sale systems has allowed merchants to create new business models and innovative practices. In the May edition of the mPOS Tracker™, PYMNTS spoke with Ayr Muir, Founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, about how his decision to use a custom...