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TSYS, Ingenico Enable EMV, NFC And Apple Pay For POS Solutions
January 23, 2015

Global payments provider TSYS, along with Ingenico Group, recently announced a new agreement to offer merchants a seamless and secure solution for accepting all payment types, according to a TSYS release. These payment types include magnetic stripe, EMV, NFC and Apple Pay.

Starbucks’ Mobile Payments Jolt
January 23, 2015

Apple might want to take a bite out of Starbucks’ mobile payments strategy. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....

Driving Checks To Extinction
January 23, 2015

Where checks are still used, they are used to pay bills, and in particular between businesses. But that’s not because businesses like using checks and don’t want to change. René Lacerte, CEO and Founder of Bill.com says that it’s all of the stuff that happens...

Amazon May Get Data Boost With Israeli Chip Developer Purchase
January 23, 2015

Amazon has agreed to buy Annapurna Labs, a secretive Israeli chip developer — but what’s not certain yet is what’s in the deal for Amazon. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Bitcoin Goes Mainstream In Braintree Beta Test
January 23, 2015

Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency whose supporters like to think of it as anything but ordinary, may have just gained its best chance at widespread acceptance — by being just one of the boys. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Raise Gets $56M To Let You Buy Discounted Gift Cards Seconds Before You Spend Them
January 23, 2015

Can a gift-card exchange be worth a billion dollars? That seems to be the case with Raise, which just pulled in another $56 million, barely two months after an $18 million round in November. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Button Pulls In $12M To Build Its On-Demand Service Network
January 23, 2015

On-demand commerce startup Button, which just launched in October, has now pulled in $12 million to build out its network of on-demand services and its recommendation capabilities, according to VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

It’s All About Mobile Engagement
January 23, 2015

Mobile commerce’s share will climb to 40 percent of all e-commerce transactions worldwide in 2015, and mobile will also push cross-device sales above its current 15-to-20-percent range, according to a new report from e-commerce marketing tech vendor Criteo. And while no one is about to...

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Study: Retail Crime Hits 10-Year High in UK
January 22, 2015

On Monday (Jan. 19), the British Retail Consortium reported that over $910 million was stolen from retail outlets in 2014 — an 18 percent increase from the year prior. This is despite the fact that the volume of actual offenses decreased by 4 percent, indicating that criminals...