Point-of-sale

Micros Systems, which provides services for the hospitality and retail industries, is collaborating with PayPal to provide payments technology.

VeriFone Systems has launched Way2Ride, a mobile app that enables taxi passengers to get in, tap to pay, and get out of the cab the moment their ride is over.

The company behind the German mobile payments app GO4Q has had a busy — and challenging — summer, adding payments for taxi drivers, golf courses and beer gardens.

Payment processor SecureNet Payment Systems has developed Mobile PayOS, which enables merchants to use Apple's iOS mobile devices to receive mobile payments.

Groupon aims to attract more merchants to its mobile payment offering by letting them remove the mobile device from the equation.

At a time when most mobile payment apps use virtual cards, QR codes or contactless payments, Dairy Queen is testing the more experimental location-based approach employed by Square and PayPal.

Chase Paymentech now offers a mobile checkout application and card reader as part of its Chase Checkout point of sale technology for small businesses.

Chase Card Services says it will stick with the Isis mobile wallet venture as it prepares for a national rollout after nearly 10 months of testing. In doing so, the JPMorgan Chase unit also gives its endorsement to Isis' model of using Near Field Communication for contactless payments.

PayPal's cloud-based mobile wallet, which authenticates shoppers by presenting a photo of their face to the cashier, has arrived in the U.K.

Building on an earlier partnership, Isis and American Express are integrating their software and allowing Isis mobile wallet users to access their Isis accounts with Amex's Serve prepaid cards.

CenPOS has integrated Ingenico terminals into its could-based payments platform, a move that's designed to enable both mobile payments and EMV-chip card acceptance at automotive dealerships and other specialty merchants.

PayPal's new partnership with Alliance Data spans multiple products at both companies, but it has barely scratched the surface of what the two payments providers say is possible.

Even if the Federal Reserve Board does not backtrack sharply on its debit-fee cap as a result of last week's court ruling, the legal battle has created fresh uncertainty that may have some U.S. issuers questioning their long-term strategy.

To create effective mobile payments products, developers must treat merchants and consumers as separate customer segments that have of inextricably-linked needs.

A symbiotic relationship between security and revenue may sound too good to be true, but it's not. ISOs and acquirers can succeed by creating opportunities that pair enhanced PCI compliance tools with new revenue streams.

Visa and MasterCard have agreed to share their common application identifier technology, enabling EMV-chip based debit transactions to originate from a single application while allowing merchants a choice of networks for routing.

In the payments industry, point of sale technology has become the "hottest area" of interest for companies considering an acquisition, according to the investment bank Berkery Noyes.

Payments industry veteran Tom Dolan will head the new Canadian office for Total Merchant Services, the independent sales organization announced today.

Viableware wants to differentiate its restaurant payment system by targeting high-end establishments with technology that doesn't erase the personal interaction between patrons and staff.

Global Payments Inc. executives highlighted its strategic partnerships with PayPal Here in the U.K. and CaixaBank in Brazil as vital to its business in the coming year.