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710InvestmentsMobile Payment Platform ShopKeep Closes $65 Million In Funding
ShopKeep, a tablet-to-cloud and point-of-sale (POS) payment platform for retailers and restaurants, has closed a $65 million round of equity and debt...
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2.5KRetailWhy The Merchant Countertop Needs A Tech Update
So much is changing in retail and payments these days — the seemingly unstoppable rise of mobile, for instance, or the transformation...
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2.8KMPOS TrackerIs mPOS The New Nonprofit Nonoptional?
The holiday shopping season is here — and to capture profits, retailers need to ensure that customers’ payment experiences are as smooth as...
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3.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPayPal-iZettle Deal Probed By UK Antitrust Watchdog
The U.K. antitrust watchdog is looking into PayPal‘s acquisition of European startup iZettle, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). In May, PayPal...
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3.0KPOS InnovationMobeewave Founders On Igniting Contactless Payments In 2019
It has been written that “to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose.” Seven years ago, when Mobeewave Co-founders...
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2.8KInvestmentsStandard Cognition Raises $40M To Take On Amazon Go
Standard Cognition, which provides AI-powered autonomous checkout solutions for brick-and-mortar retailers, announced it has raised $40 million in Series A funding, bringing...
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5.6KPayment MethodsChase Card Services President On Why It’s Time For Cards To Tap And Go
How to speed the checkout process? To echo an old Dustin Hoffman film, the answer may lie with one word: plastic. To...
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1.7KRetailmyPOS Brings New Store To Barcelona
To bring its products and services closer to local small and medium-sized businesses, European payments provider myPOS will be opening a new...
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2.4KRetailRetail Pulse: Glossier Goes Experiential In NYC; Holiday Retail Sales May Top $1 Trillion
It’s not uncommon for brands to open permanent stores after experimenting with pop-ups, but Glossier is taking an innovative payments approach to...
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1.9KRetailAll Grown Up And Ready To Pop Up: eTailers Turn To Pop-Up Store Gurus
For digitally native brands moving from the web to brick and mortar, startups are providing a platform to help with the transition....
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3.2KEarningsSquare GPV Gains Amid Larger Sellers, Capital Loans Surge 34 Pct
Square's gross payment volumes surged 29 percent year over year and larger sellers, at volumes $125K and above, were a larger percent...
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1.8KToday In DataToday In Data: The Evolving Face Of What’s Next In Mobile
It’s been an up and down week on the stock market as earnings reports have piled in and investors have like, or...
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2.9KRetailAEVI Software Launch Targets SMB Checkout Improvements
It’s never easy being a mom-and-pop merchant, or a similarly small retailer, given the resources of the bigger rivals out there, along...
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6.9KDigital PaymentsCan Mobile Pay-At-Table Be Dining’s Friction Elixir?
These days, it’s hard to even think of a restaurant operating without some massive presence in digital — not only an attractive website,...
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4.8KMPOS TrackerWhy Yesterday Is The Key To Building mPOS’ Future
Before 2009, when Square launched in the U.S., the world of payments wasn’t terribly friendly terrain for small and micro-businesses looking to...
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3.7KPOS InnovationWant To Win With Payment Terminals? Get Intimate.
In a sense, the ongoing battle for point-of-sale supremacy involves intimacy. Yes, intimacy. Maybe a diner prefers to have the waiter bring...
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2.1KPoint of SaleSquare Share Price Sinks Further Post-CFO Departure
Square is dealing with fallout from its CFO’s upcoming departure, with shares in the company falling again on Thursday (October 12). The...
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2.2KGlobal PaymentsSmartPesa Rolls Out Android POS System; Vipps Selects Inside Secure For Payment Security
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Norway’s Vipps selection of Inside Secure...
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5.0KBlockchainPundi X CEO On Dialing Up Digital Payments, Calling Up Blockchain Phones In Dubai
Well beyond bitcoin, blockchain is making inroads into the mainstream and cryptos are seeing a thaw when it comes to conducting commerce. ...
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1.9KData DiveData Dive, Columbus Edition: Square, PayPal And One Brave Bank Teller
Today is Columbus Day, a celebration of Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of Americas 526 years ago. The “discovery” is in quotes for three...
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2.6KGlobal PaymentsSberbank Rolls Out Cash Postcards; Binance Invests In TravelbyBit
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Binance’s investment in Australian startup TravelbyBit to bring crypto...
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3.1KGas Station RetailOil Companies’ Gas Payments ‘Fast Lane’ Pursuit
Mobile payments at the pump? Made reality, the concept has the potential to save time and truly move life into the fast...
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6.4KVISAVisa: Why The US Is Finally Ready For Contactless
Contactless cards have been a big hit around the world. In the U.K., the European Union (EU) and Canada, contactless payments account for...
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2.2KPoint of SalemyPOS Launches New Store In Milan
myPOS announced that it will open a store in Milan, Italy this week, its fourth brick-and-mortar location in Europe. This will be...
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4.4KPayment MethodsStripe Takes On Square, Clover With New Terminal
Stripe, the payments company, announced on Monday (Sept. 17) the launch of Stripe Terminal, a product that will enable online businesses and...
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8.5KPOS InnovationFood For Thought In Food Service Payments
Chew on this: Food service businesses of all types demand fast and flexible payments, tackling issues as far flung as mobile order...
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9.2KResTechFirst American On Food Service And Flexible Payments
Food for thought: Quick service isn’t just for fast food. When it comes to the need for speed, transactions done with haste,...
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4.7KPersonnelStripe: Developers Are The Economy’s Most Precious Resource
If one were looking at the economy a decade ago, Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson told Karen Webster, the biggest challenge businesses faced in growing...
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2.5KToday In DataToday In Data: Tapping Into The Tokenized Future
While the “mobile everything” future has been long predicted, as of the second half of 2018, we are actually beginning to see...
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2.8KMobile PaymentsSquare Integrates With Apple Desktop, Chromebook
Square has announced that it is releasing two new ways for businesses to take payments on their Apple devices and Google Chromebook. “We...
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2.3KSizzle/Fizzle
Square And India Commerce Sizzle While The Krona And US Debt Fizzle
Sizzle Square: The firm, touted by some on the sell side as “FinTech’s best idea,” had a stock boost this week. At...
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4.4KSMBsHow myPOS Helped EU’s SMBs Jump The Shark On Cash
When myPOS launched in 2014, cash was still mostly king among small businesses. In fact, as Andrew Byrne, COO at myPOS, told...
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3.8KCryptocurrencyWith Patent Filing, Square Circles Cryptos For Payments At POS
Much has been made about cryptocurrencies and the speculation that has marked trading activity in that arena. Much has been made about...
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2.8KSecurity & FraudDarden Cyberattack Puts 567K Cards At Risk
Darden Restaurants announced Wednesday (August 23) that the data on 567,000 payment card numbers may have been exposed. In a press release,...
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6.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsVerifone Acquisition Official, Discontinues NYSE Stock
Verifone Systems announced that it has been acquired by an investor group, led by technology firm Francisco Partners. The $3.4 billion acquisition, previously announced...
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3.0KBiometricsCLEAR: Biometrics, Ballparks And Bridges To A Portable ID
How on time a traveler is for a flight seems to be consistently correlated with how long it will take them to...
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2.5KPayment MethodsSquare Makes EMV Transactions Faster In The US
Square, the digital payments company, announced on Wednesday (Aug. 15) that it delivered on its pledge to make EMV transactions faster in the...
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4.0KMobileA Single Scan And Done — The Benefits Of Mobile Wallet Integration
Digital data is one thing, and mobile apps do pretty well in appealing to high-value customers, but integration is the real trick....
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2.0KRetailHow Duty-Free Shops Can Tap Into Mobile Wish Lists
Airports can be flooded with passengers at particular times of the day, especially when they are faced with a slew of international...
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2.4KToday In DataToday In Data: The Upgrading And Diversifying Face Of Financial Services
After a long, and at times painful, journey back from the wilderness that began in May 2016, it looks like things are...
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3.3KBlockchainBeam Links Blockchain, Retail Mobile Payments
Global tech startup Beam Wallet is ready to launch a new mobile payment solution, which will link smartphones and blockchain technology to enable...
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4.8KRetailWePay’s Aberman: It’s Time For POS Dinosaurs To Die Out
When it comes to the topic of future proofing, WePay Co-founder Rich Aberman told Karen Webster for this week’s edition of Unscripted...
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1.7KGlobal Payments
Worldnet Brings ‘Quickchip’ To POS; Lurraldebus Rolls Out Mobile Tickets
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes a mobile wallet pilot by Banco Agrario,...
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7.8KDeliveryCould Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?
Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong Q2 2018 earnings report and announced the acquisition...
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2.2KPoint of Sale
Square Opens Reader Hardware To Developers
Square announced it is opening its Reader hardware to developers, enabling them to build their own custom checkout and point of sale...
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2.0KNewsFive at Five: Ride Hailing Service Grab Set For New $1B Investment
Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Stories include Southeast Asia...
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6.7KEarningsClover Vs. Square: What’s Next In This POS Competition?
Clover, the point-of-sale operation owned by First Data, keeps growing, and that could present more challenges for Square. First Data reported its...
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1.7KEarningsShopify Shares Fall Over Growth Slowdown
Despite a quarter of new product feature announcements and an order volume milestone, shares of Shopify fell more than 6 percent on...
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2.3KToday In DataToday In Data: The Power In Picking The Right Partners
Good partnerships – Abbott and Costello, Jobs and Wozniak, chocolate and peanut butter – can change the world. When combined, the two...
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2.1KPayment MethodsToshiba Global Commerce Solutions Sees 46 Percent Market Share Growth
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, the global retail electronic point of sale (EPOS) technology company, announced on Monday (July 30) that it has grown...
