MasterCard partnered with AngelHack to hold a hackathon tied to the 23rd Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress in Melbourne. Australia’s most talented developers and entrepreneurs were invited to join the ITS 2016 Mastercard Smart Cities Hackathon for two days to consider one question – how can we use data and technology to deliver smarter city…
San Jose-based Tessera Technologies’ FotoNation has unveiled a new high-performance suite of face and iris recognition biometric security and authentication solutions for mobile platforms. Based on FotoNation’s unique deep learning neural network, and industry proven MIRLIN Iris recognition technologies, these new solutions deliver authentication in the most challenging outdoor light and shade conditions, including liveliness…
eHopper POS now offers support for customers worldwide. eHopper is now far more accessible than ever, allowing merchants to set the software to support local language, currency and payment processing. Not only does this feature make the software much more accessible, it also increases eHoppers’ client base exponentially by opening the company to assist small…
Aeromexico has unveiled its new digital ecosystem that consists of a revamped website, mobile app, and updated airport kiosks. The system also offers advanced payment features. Aeromexico’s new website, mobile app, and automated airport kiosks are part of this new multi-platform vision. The airline aims to develop a personalized and connected end-to-end passenger experience at…
Bank Audi, Lebanon’s largest bank, has teamed with Verifone to provide thousands of merchants with point-of-sale (POS) devices designed to bring new payment and commerce capabilities to the country’s expanding retail market. The deal is part of the country’s retail infrastructure upgrade. Supporting Bank Audi’s merchant services in both countertop and mobile retail sales environments,…
Value-added Point of Sale (POS) solutions specialist Epson America announced that TAP Portal, provider of payment business applications, has certified the Epson TM-m10 receipt printer for integration with its processor-agnostic payments app, and joined the Epson EnvisionSM mSelect Partner Program. The joint solution is available from TAP Portal today. As a member of the Envision…
According to a new study more than 7 in 10 business travelers in the United States (78%), Italy (77%), Canada (74%) and Spain (73%) prefer using self-service technology to manage their travel, while the rate is slightly lower for the Nordic countries (60%) and Germany (56%). The study from the GBTA Foundation in partnership with…
Hong Kong-based mPOS manufacturer, BBPOS, has released WisePad2 enabling the upmost flexibility for it to be used in all environments – integrated POS, semi-integrated POS or stand-alone. The new product only requires a mobile network connection. WisePad2 does not require the necessity of carrying around a second additional device such as a tablet, as required…
In Other News: SIONIC (ION); VISA (survey); TECHNAVIO (MEMS); and BOFA (Alaska Airlines). SIONIC – Sionic Mobile reports ION Rewards for Apple Watch are now available for immediate free download in the App Store. For each mobile checkout, users instantly earn IONs that spend like cash and can be used at more than 100,000 merchant…
Scandinavia’s Nets is on-boarding Nordic issuer portfolio’s in credit cards and sales finance onto WAY4, the e-payment processing framework developed by OpenWay. Card portfolios of five banks in Finland, Norway and Denmark are already being processed on WAY4 and soon also the migration in Sweden will be completed. For now the payment transactions of more…
The popular connected health and fitness market specialist, Fitbit, has inked a deal to acquire the wearable payment assets of startup Coin. The deal includes key personnel and intellectual property specific to Coin’s wearables payment platform. While there are no plans to integrate Coin’s wearable payments technology into the 2016 Fitbit product roadmap, the acquisition…
PowaPOS has raked-in more than $1.1 million in orders from Latin American distributors within the first month since joining SuperCom on April 18th. PowaPOS is the developer of a fully-integrated mobile and tablet-based system integrating industry-leading retail and secure payment solutions into one simplified, attractive and robust POS platform. PowaPOS expects to deliver the orders…