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More consolidation is apace in the world of payments: Nexi, the Italian fintech that scooped up rivals Danish-based Nets and then Italy’s SIA to create a $12.5 billion European payments giant, h
Timing is everything, right? Just a few days after recovering from a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.orderbird.com">orderbird</a>, which claims to be the leading i
Companies like Square, Groupon, PayPal and Amazon are all vying to be the primary tech partner for merchants at the point of sale in the U.S., and as more companies replace their legacy equipment with
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.paypal.com">PayPal</a> has been bullish on boosting its payments business by tapping into the growing use of smartphones, and this week the company <a target="_blan
As NFC continues to see growing adoption, we are still noticing more mobile payment solutions that <em>don't</em> use the technology picking up traction -- and funding: one of the latest comes from Ge