Playphone & GASH
Playphone, recently acquired by premier game developer GungHo, has inked a partnership with Gamania Digital Entertainment (GASH), a leading Asian online game publisher based in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
NCR Cornell-Mayo
NCR’s Cornell-Mayo subsidiary ranked first in more categories than any of its competitors in RIS News’ annual Software Leaderboard.
Perry Ellis Pilots Starmount Mobile POS
Perry Ellis International piloted Starmount’s mobile POS solution at 17 Perry Ellis stores in time for the holiday shopping season, allowing Perry Ellis sales associates to provide a higher level of customer service. This is part of a chainwide rollout of Starmount Connect and Engage that will be completed in the first quarter of 2013. For this the Starmount mobile POS and mobile selling solutions will help Perry Ellis increase the level of customer engagement throughout the store, enabling associates to use mobile devices for product and price lookup, product recommendations, clienteling, and to provide access to customer loyalty information.
BMO Bank Expands Locations
– New BMO branch represents a $1.7 million investment in the community – BMO offers customers extended banking hours, including Saturdays and Sundays – ‘Making Money Make Sense’ in 6 different languages – BMO invites kids and parents to BMO Kid’s Day to see the newly designed kids area CALGARY, ALBERTA, Jun 04, 2012 (MARKETWIRE…
Payvment Turbo-Charges Facebook Commerce
Payvment, the number one Facebook ecommerce platform, today introduced Payvment Social IQ, a “Social Marketing Expert-in-a-Box” that guides sellers towards the optimal social media activities to boost sales and engagement in their Facebook stores. Based on analysis of over two years of data from thousands of successful sellers, Payvment Social IQ technology delivers a daily…
appMobi Deploys In-App Purchasing, Analytics and Social Gaming
appMobi (www.appmobi.com) launched its “playMobi” cross-platform HTML5-based game development, deployment, and monetization SDK. The “playMobi” platform gives HTML5 game developers an elegant JavaScript API solution to the many issues they face, including user authentication, in-game payments, social player engagement, scoring and leaderboard management. The core technology of playMobi is based on TapJs, which pioneered the social network category for HTML5 games and was acquired by appMobi in 2011. It allows cross-platform in-app purchasing with its 1Touch in-app payment system.
JDS POS Distinguished as Top Software Vendor
JDS Solutions retail management software was named by Retail Info Systems (RIS) News to its 2011 Software “LeaderBoard,” which compares software companies serving the retail industry in a head-to-head comparison based on retail executive evaluations. JDS Solutions ranked number 1 in 9 categories, including: #1 in Quality of Support and Services by a Mid-Size Retailers; #1 in Leader in Technology Innovation by Mid-Size Retailers, and #1 in Over-all Performance by Tier 1 and Mid-Size Retailers. Additionally, JDS ranked 2nd or better in over 20 categories. JDS Solutions specializes in retail software for mid-market retailers with its “WinRetail” POS and Retail Management System. It helps retailers integrate e-Commerce, Merchandise Planning, Inventory Control, Business Intelligence, POS, CRM, and Loss Prevention.
ECRS Announces Plans to Debut mPOS
ECR Software Corporation (ECRS) will debut its robust mobile CATAPULT point-of-sale solution at the National Retail Federation (NRF) 101st Convention and Expo to be held January 15-18, 2012 in New York City, NY. The ECRS exhibit is located within the Mobile and Customer Experience Pavilion on the main show floor. This highly flexible and feature packed mobile POS solution is driven by ECRS’s pioneering Java™ based Retail Transaction Server™ (RTS) technology which extends the proven and award winning CATAPULT POS business logic to mobile POS, traditional POS, and services wherever consumers and transactions intersect. This offers a full range of activities such as touchscreen customization, customer association, loyalty redemption, gift card activation, gift card redemption, item lookup, customer history lookup, automated redundancy failover, automatic transaction recovery, automatic discounting, and transaction suspend and resume.
Valutec Gift & Loyalty Platform Applies Social Platform
Valutec Card Solutions turnkey gift and loyalty card services and SNAP (Social Network Appreciation Platform) web-based platform to link traditional loyalty programs to social networks partnered to give consumers access to seamlessly “turn on” SNAP functionality. Allowing their loyalty programs to become social, the SNAP platform will give Valutec customers the ability to expand on current in-store loyalty programs by rewarding customers for automated online mentions and check-ins on sites like Facebook, Twitter and foursquare.
Cornell-Mayo Celebrates 30th Year in Retail
Cornell-Mayo Associates (CMA) POS software is celebrating its 30th anniversary at the National Retail Federation (NRF) 100th Annual Conference and Expo in New York City. CMA earned 23 #1 rankings in the 2010 RIS Software Leaderboard in December and has remained profitable and independent through the toughest economy in modern history. Cornell-Mayo’s flagship “Omnistore” POS features a modern, lightweight service-oriented architecture (SOA) for both new and old hardware alike to provide true platform independence and access to store systems from anywhere.
Regis Deploys Epson Printer for 8,000-Unit Rollout
Regis Corporation has selected the newly-released Epson “TM-T88V” single-station thermal printer for an 8,000-unit rollout to Regis Corporationâs corporate salon locations throughout North America, including Supercuts, Cost Cutters, Regis Salons and MasterCuts. Regis Corporation chose the Epson printer because of its industry-leading energy efficiency, operational cost savings and high reliability. Epsonâs TM-T88-series is has five million units installed worldwide.
Chase Community Giving Launches Summer Program
Chase has kicked off its
Chase Community Giving Summer 2010 program on Facebook to award more than $5 million to be shared among 200
charities with grants ranging from $20,000 to $250,000. Chase Community Giving provides an opportunity for small and local
organizations to build awareness of their causes on a national level. The first Chase Community Giving program saw over
2 million users on the Facebook platform become fans of
the program and helped decide which, of more than 500,000 charities,
should receive a share of $5 million. More than 100 winners from 31
states were selected. Chase Community Giving is back again â and
improved. The number of charities eligible to receive awards has doubled
and several new tools have been introduced. The site for the Summer 2010 Program is live now and can be found at http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving. Charities can start
personalizing their pages and voting begins June 15. Winners will be determined on or around July 13.