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Elavon’s Tablet POS Service Debuts in Canada and other Digital Transactions News briefs

MasterCard Inc. issued its latest U.S. EMV progress report; the network says it has 2 million chip-active merchant locations and that 88% of MasterCard consumer credit cards now have chips.

Processor Elavon announced it is launching a tablet-based point-of-sale product in Canada in conjunction with talech, a POS software developer.

Payments company iPayment Holdings Inc. announced its partner program has expanded into the unattended payments vertical.

One of the two taxicab companies in Anchorage, Alaska, is asking the Anchorage Assembly, the municipality’s legislative body, to approve a $1 fee on credit and debit card fares; a local transportation commission rejected the proposal in May.

NCR Corp. said Rutter’s Farm Stores, a convenience store operator, is using NCR’s OPTIC, an outdoor payment terminal that enables EMV and magnetic-strip card acceptance in addition to contactless payments. Rutter has 65 locations.

Mobile-payment technology provider Net Element Inc. said its PayOnline module is now available on 19 online platforms for e-commerce and content management system (CMS) functions, including WordPress, Joomla and 1C-Bitrix.

Fraud-prevention specialist Kount Inc. said it received two U.S. patents on data protection measures it developed.

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