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Mobile commerce solutions provider Spindle has entered a distribution deal with Allcom to jointly market payment services and business communications technologies.
May 15 -
Square's latest flurry of features came just in time for Souvla, a new Greek sandwich shop and wine bar in San Francisco.
May 15 -
American Express has added five new acquirers to its OptBlue program, designed to make Amex card acceptance easier for smaller merchants.
May 14 -
Executives at processor Total System Services can't predict which of the many existing mobile payments technologies will dominate the payments landscape of the future, but they plan to aggressively go after the processing business that follows.
May 14 -
Square Inc. now lets its merchants get feedback from customers through a response window added to its digital receipts. Appropriately, the new service is called Square Feedback.
May 13 -
Jusp, an Italian maker of mobile payment systems, is offering its technology on Nokia's Windows-based Lumia smartphones.
May 13 -
The payment processor Vantiv has agreed to buy Mercury Payment Systems LLC for $1.65 billion to expand its services for cloud-based payments integrated into other technology, says Vantiv president and CEO Charles Drucker.
May 12 -
Apple will be ready to accept Near Field Communication payments from phones in its stores, even though none of its consumer devices support NFC out of the box.
May 12 -
Square has removed its cloud-based Wallet app from the Apple iTunes and Google Play stores, apparently to make room for a new app called Square Order.
May 12 -
As more merchants demand mobile technology to accept payments in their stores, vendors like Total System Services must diversify their offerings.
May 12 -
Swedish mobile payment company iZettle has raised $55 million (40 million) in Series C funding to expand its operations.
May 9 -
Contactless payment cards may never have had strong footing in the U.S. to begin with, but perhaps the biggest sign of the technology's downfall is JPMorgan Chase's admission that its Blink cards never quite caught on.
May 9 -
NCR Corp. has integrated its NCR Silver iPad point of sale system with Retail Intel, a cloud-based service provider that can pull in sales data from QuickBooks.
May 8 -
The payment terminal maker VeriFone announced the nomination of Jonathan I. Schwartz to its board of directors and that two of its current board members, Leslie Denend and Jeff Stiefler, will not stand for reelection.
May 7 -
India's merchants are beginning to embrace mobile card readers, fueled by the nation's growing dependence on payment cards and smartphones.
May 7 -
Total Systems Services (TSYS) is partnering with ShopKeep POS to extend the processor's range of mobile and tablet-based point of sale offerings.
May 6 -
Chase Paymentech has launched Mobile Dashboard, an interactive reporting display for merchants.
May 6 -
American Express Co. is ready for its new small business program, OptBlue, to take the spotlight after several months of testing and a soft launch with acquirers.
May 6 -
James B. Lipham is retiring as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer at Total System Services Inc.
May 5 -
North American Bancard (NAB) is adding technology from Moki in an attempt to secure and manage its in-store mobile point of sale system.
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