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Kallpod LLC announced its Kontactless Quick Response code-based payment service is now available at select Hyatt, Courtyard Marriott, and Hilton locations. Consumers can place orders for food, beverages, and merchandise to be delivered where the user is sitting. They scan a QR code at a table or seat, which opens a …
August, 2020
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13 August
Standard Cognition Argues It Has a Better Alternative to Amazon Go. Will Circle K Prove It?
Standard Cognition Corp., a San Francisco-based provider of autonomous checkout systems based on artificial intelligence, expects to have the first of Alimentation Couche-Tard’s Circle K convenience stores retrofitted and up and running in early 2021, with potentially dozens more to follow. The first store to adopt the technology will be in …
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12 August
Acquirer Services Firm CardSmart.io Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/12/20
Payments-industry veterans Con Coughlin and Mackenzie Walsh have formed CardSmart.io, aimed at providing services including portfolio acquisition and merchant funding while working with independent software vendors, independent sales organizations, agents, and resellers.Houston-based P97 Networks Inc. announced it has been chosen by ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. to enable mobile payments at Mobil-branded stations …
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11 August
Eye On Dining POS: Shift4 Adds Uber Eats; SpotOn Transact Buys SeatNinja
With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating restaurants’ transition to digital payment technology, processors Shift4 Payments Inc. and SpotOn Transact Inc. have beefed up their platforms through deals to add third-party applications. Allentown, Pa.-based Shift4 has agreed to integrate San Francisco-based Uber Technologies Inc.’s Uber Eats delivery app to its point-of-sale platform. …
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11 August
Eye on Contactless: Touchless Comes to Wynn Resorts And Klarna Adds a Google Pay Option
More contactless payment options are coming for Las Vegas visitors and shoppers who want to make installment purchases in stores. FreedomPay says it has installed contactless and touchless payment systems at more than 100 venues at the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Boston Harbor resorts. Meanwhile, installment-payment provider Klarna AB …
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11 August
Fortis and Blue Dog Merge and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/11/20
Payments providers Fortis Payment Systems LLC and Blue Dog Business Services LLC announced they have merged. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.ATM portfolio manager Payment Alliance International Inc. said it has acquired the Cash-N-Go ATM portfolio of Cash N Go ATM Network Inc. The deal adds almost 400 machines to Payment Alliance’s portfolio, …
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10 August
E-Commerce And Other Payment Trends Were Catching Fire Even Before Covid, a Debit Study Shows
Key payment trends now being driven by the Covid-19 pandemic were already gaining a full head of steam much earlier, according to debit card transaction data released early Monday by the Houston-based Pulse electronic funds transfer network. Stay-at-home policies and business closings starting in March drove consumers to spend online and …
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7 August
Kroger To Test Contactless Payment Acceptance and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/7/20
The Kroger Co. is testing contactless payments at some of its QFC (Quality Food Center) locations. The test includes acceptance of Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Fitbit Pay, mobile banking apps, and contactless NFC cards. Kroger already accepts its Kroger Pay app. The QFC division is based in Seattle.ATM operator Cardtronics …
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7 August
With a Compliance Deadline Looming, Technology Emerges to Ease Gas Pump EMV
Sound Payments Inc., a multichannel technology provider that offers point-of-sale solutions for the petroleum industry, expects its partnership with National Retail Solutions, a subsidiary of IDT Corp., to accelerate adoption of EMV at in-pump card readers among independent gas stations and convenience stores. Sounds Payments argues its EMV in-pump card …
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6 August
As It Recovers From Covid-19 Shock, Shift4 Looks to Grow Its End-to-End Processing Business
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a fearful toll on payments processing, and on Thursday, in its first earnings call as a publicly held company, Shift4 Payments Inc. proved it’s no exception. Stay-at-home orders and business shutdowns, with tentative reopenings, clipped the company’s full-service, lucrative end-to-end payment volume in the June quarter …
