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 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...
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...
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...
Mergers are coming to mPOS. In an announcement made on Wednesday (April 27), mobile payment players SumUp and payleven said that they would merge in a deal that would, upon completion, create what they billed as the “global leader in the mobile payment space.” The...
Last week in payments was notable for having one of the more colorful beginnings and endings in recent memory. Following on the news that Alexander Hamilton was holding onto his spot on the $10, last week got kicked off with the announcement that the $20...
With so much industry focus on the payments stream aspect of security, the equally — if not more — important customer information stream tends to get lost in the discussion. TNS and Intel have teamed up on a solution that addresses that gap. Lisa Shipley,...
Verifone is stretching out its mobile legs at the point of sale. The company announced yesterday (April 18) that its payment services solution, Verifone Point Classic, has been integrated with Revel Systems‘ iPad POS. A press release explains that the goal of the integration is...
Semi-integrated versus integrated POS solutions, that is the question. Well, one of many that merchants are trying to get answered. Bill Lodes, SVP at First American Payment Systems joined PYMNTS for a discussion about why a semi-integrated approach provides a fully functional POS solution to...