When First Data quietly announced its purchase of Clover in 2013, the move was widely covered as a competitive answer to Square (and its many imitators). The common narrative was a tale of two payments hardware firms – with Square playing the part of the...
There are many ways to log the changes in the payments ecosystem over the last decade and a half. One could look to the point of sale changes like EMV or NFC, or the various omnichannel upgrades like order ahead or buy online and pickup...
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™,...
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™,...
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...
Social media has made it easier than ever for aspiring entrepreneurs to get the news out on their latest and greatest ideas. Fortunately for them, though, sometimes established companies are eager enough for new blood in the engine of retail disruption that they’re willing to...
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...
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...
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...
