October 06, 2014
Square Valuation Hits $6 Billion
Square has closed $150 million in new venture financing, bringing Square’s current value to about $6 billion, the New York Times reported Sunday (Oct. 5). The new financing round was...
September 26, 2014
Can Apple Pay Shape The Future of Omnicommerce?
Apple Pay has the potential to influence the direction of a lot of things in payments, and today, we’d like to add “omnichannel” to the list. While the tech giant...
September 26, 2014
MPOS Tracker® January 2015
August 2014 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....
September 25, 2014
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 and, in turn, feed Amazon and use its...
August 29, 2014
Does SumUP Have An mPOS Advantage?
Followers of PYMNTS mPos Tracker know that the essential truth of mobile point of sale is competition. It seems as though every day a new payments technology player is launching...
August 14, 2014
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 croweded space. But while a giant player could...
July 28, 2014
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 plans to implement mPOS by 2016. Why? Because...
July 22, 2014
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 mPOS is the tool they are both using...
June 26, 2014
Salesforce Rolls Out Saleforce1 To Change How Retail Is Done
History is filled with good ideas great and small that started out humbly scrawled on the back of napkins. Aaron Sorkin reportedly wrote the entire first draft of A Few Good...