QR Code

A QR code is a type of matrix barcode first designed in 1994 for the automotive industry in Japan. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached.

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Primo Launches Payment App Via QR Code; Aims To Raise $1M For US Expansion
Primo Launches Payment App Via QR Code; Aims To Raise $1M For US Expansion
February 28, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Primo, the Japanese startup, has created a mobile app that enables shoppers to skip the checkout line through the quick scan of a QR code. Get...

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Visa Releases New Details On India’s Bharat QR Payments
Visa Releases New Details On India’s Bharat QR Payments
February 27, 2017  |  Payment Methods

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India’s Mobile QR Code Future
India’s Mobile QR Code Future
February 23, 2017  |  International

The two cornerstones of innovation in moving India to a cashless society are actually technologies that have been around for a very long time: feature...

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IKEA Pilots QR Code-Based Mobile Checkout
IKEA Pilots QR Code-Based Mobile Checkout
May 09, 2016  |  Retail

Mobile payments, particularly in physical locations, have a tendency to fall into the category of solutions in search of a problem to solve.  It might...

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Turkey Corporates Handed The eBanking Key: QR Codes
Turkey Corporates Handed The eBanking Key: QR Codes
January 21, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Corporations may want the same kind of fast, technologically advanced banking solutions as consumers do, but corporate banking also has more demanding thresholds for security...

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AR Management Gets The QR Code Taken Seriously
AR Management Gets The QR Code Taken Seriously
November 11, 2015  |  B2B Payments

Remember the QR code? You know, that weird-looking, black-and-white, pixelated image you can scan with your phone? When it first emerged in the U.S. market only...

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Belgium Banks Back QR Mobile Payments
Belgium Banks Back QR Mobile Payments
December 09, 2014  |  Mobile

With an eye on in-store, in-app, online and P2P payments, Belgium’s largest banks are backing a QR code-based mobile payments app. Get the Full Story...

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