POS Terminals

19 Aug 14 @ 15:35

mPOS player Square is extending its small business cash advance financing programme after securing investment from Victory Park Capital. The Square Capital programme is aimed at small businesses using its... read more

18 Aug 14 @ 15:34

European mPOS specialist SumUp has closed a double-digit million dollar Series C funding round led by Russian fintech venture capital fund Life.Sreda. Existing investors, including Groupon, BBVA Ventures and various... read more

15 Aug 14 @ 13:27

Payment processor Heartland Payment Systems has acquired Leaf, a US-based mPOS start-up. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Heartland initially paid $20 million for a majority stake in... read more

13 Aug 14 @ 14:57

In a widely anticipated move, Amazon.com has unveiled a $10 mobile point of sale device (mPOS) and mobile app for brick-and-mortar businesses, marking the latest step by the US online... read more

12 Aug 14 @ 16:19

SPECTRA Technologies has achieved the approval of the highest level of security requirement, PCI PIN Transaction Security (PTS) 4.0., in its payment terminal CREON. SPECTRA has become the world’s second vendor (first... read more

12 Aug 14 @ 12:41

When the Payments Card Industry Data Security Program (PCI-DSS) was first introduced in 2004, the move was in response to a series of breaches that demonstrated how exposed credit and... read more

12 Aug 14 @ 12:31

A growing number of merchants want more from their point of sale (POS) systems than basic payment processing. Instead of just a terminal, today’s POS is packed with software applications... read more

11 Aug 14 @ 12:04

At 93% of total US retail dollar volume, the point of sale (POS) retail market towers above the online market and will continue to do so for years to come.... read more

01 Aug 14 @ 11:27

The US Department of Homeland Security today issued an advisory alert to businesses concerning the existence of Backoff, a new point-of-sale malware which infiltrates retail computer systems. The alert, issued on... read more

31 Jul 14 @ 15:58

mPOS payment player Square has revealed plans to launch a EMV-compliant chip and signature version of its mPOS dongle as the US continues to implement EMV. Square has built a... read more

23 Jul 14 @ 16:06

As the European Commission moves closer towards its ambitions of creating a single European payments market, one proposal put forward in Article 58 of the upcoming Payment Services Directive (PSD2)... read more

23 Jul 14 @ 10:20

Amazon has quietly released a new Android and Fire Phone app, dubbed Amazon Wallet, which lets users scan cards with their phone and save them in the Amazon cloud, so... read more