Google’s Android Market Place is going to offer wireless carriers payment alternative for users to pay for applications and have the bill charged to their wireless phone bill. This is major news as it’s the first time that this is being done which involves wireless carriers. Wireless providers will benefit by getting their share of ...
Today, Atlanta based First Data Corporation, Worldwide leader in electronic payment processing and commerce solutions, announced that in the United States, branded gift card sales have increased in the first half of 2010 as merchants saw monthly sales growth from February to June when the increase in sales of gift cards reached its peak in ...
Visa Europe which is the country’s leading payment platform today launched its first services of whitepaper specifically tailored to the hospitality sector with information on how to safeguard consume card data. Because criminals are constantly targeting the hospitality industry and breaches are increasing, Visa has offer these guidelines to help companies protect consumer card data ...
Family Dollar, Inc and Western Union put out a release today that the two companies have signed an agreement for Family Dollar to offer Western Union® goCASHSM money transfer service at their more than 6,400 retail locations across the U.S. The agreement broadens Western Union’s reach by allowing them to offer the same services found ...
CreditCall Ltd, payment processing company based out of the United Kingdom, last weeks announced that it’s developing mobile payment platform that will allow for merchants—businesses and organizations—to take PIN-based transactions utilizing a secure chip attached to Blackberry and other smart phones on the market today. The name of the product is entitled CardEase, it will ...
One of the founders of CashStar, Inc., Chief Executive Officer, David Stone, will be doing a presentation about how the role gift cards have to play is changing as the world moves towards a digital age. The presentation that Mr. Stone will be giving in Baltimore, Maryland on the 1st of August, 2010 is entitled ...
On July 25, 2010, Retail Technologies Corporation (RTC), based in Kennesaw, Georgia, put out a press release on its website—rtc-group.com—announcing that StoreMS their Point-of-Sales solution for merchants has received PCI PA-DSS certification from the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. StoreMS is part of Retail Technologies Corporation’s suite of application that is tailored towards retailers. ...
Third Solutions, a marketing and technology company based out of Florida has plans to change the way consumers handle receipts at the Point-of-Sales at retail store by completely digitizing paper receipts thus eliminating physical paper receipt at retail stores with their product. MyReceiptsTM is one of the leading Digital Receipt Platform from Third Solutions that ...
The use of mobile phones in the United States is widespread. The use of mobile phones as devices to pay for products and services at the retail Point of Sales is a very exciting and new technological advancement in the payment processing industry and telecommunication industry. The functionality of Smartphone can be expanded and enhanced ...
Earlier this year Starbucks launched a mobile payment platform which was specifically designed to make the consumer experience in the store more efficient and easy for them to buy products at Starbucks. This service is now being expanded after running successful test pilot programs with several consumers at select Starbucks locations and Target stores. The ...