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A decade ago, SumUp was one of the army of fintechs that made names for themselves with dongles that turned basic smartphones into card payment terminals. Today, the London-based company has expanded

SumUp, a European-based competitor to Square, PayPal/iZettle and others that provide mobile-powered card readers and other sales technology to merchants and small businesses, has made an acquisition i

SumUp, a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments — by way of physical readers, online payments, invoices and other services — is itself powering up

SumUp, the London-based fintech company that enables small businesses to take card payments via its device and online, is launching its own pre-paid card in partnership with Mastercard. Dubbed “

Penta, the Berlin-based business banking challenger that also now operates in Italy, has partnered with BBVA-backed card reader company SumUp in a bid to attract more offline businesses. Up until rece

What if, instead of sitting on your phone on the sofa ordering stuff from Amazon, you could buy the same things locally from local stores that ultimately enliven and enrich your local neighborhood? Wh

SumUp, the London-based fintech company that enables small businesses to take card payments via its device and online, has acquired “multi-channel” e-commerce platform Shoplo. Terms of the

The next time you go to your favorite restaurant or cocktail bar, talk with the manager about bookkeeping. Chances are that they’ll tell you that they waste a ton of time collecting and recording va

Some consolidation afoot in the world of mobile payments: today Groupon- and BBVA-backed SumUp and Rocket Internet’s Payleven — two of the several European startups that cropped up in the

In the rush of companies crowding into the mobile payment space, a startup out of Europe has announced more funding to grow its footprint and add contactless hardware. SumUp, a startup originally f

Back in July, iZettle launched a reducing per transaction fee that could drop as low as 1.5% for U.K. business processing more than £15,000 per month via its mobile card readers. That move looks to h

SumUp, one of the myriad European Square-style mobile card reader startups, has expanded its coverage footprint by rolling into an 11th European market: Russia. SumUp is now operational in the U.K., G

SumUp, one of the many European mobile card reader startups targeting small businesses -- and taking advantage of Square’s continued absence to acquire users and build out a business -- has taken an

SumUp, one of the many European mobile card reader startups, is adding support for American Express. Its mobile card reader system already accepts MasterCard and Visa payments but today the startup sa

For the myriad European mobile card reader startups taking advantage of Square's continued absence in the region, the race to build out their businesses continues. The latest step for Berlin-based mob

SumUp, another Square-style mobile payment dongle that launched in Europe in August backed by more than $20 million from b-to-v Partners, Shortcut Ventures, Tengelmann Ventures and Klaus Hommels, is c

In the increasingly crowded mobile payment card-reader space, it's not just technology that's being cloned. In the scramble to build traction and outrun the pack, startups are borrowing each others' b

The landgrab among Square-influenced mobile payment companies in Europe continues apace: in today's development, <a target="_blank" href="https://sumup.com/">SumUp</a> -- which launched in August with

Add one more to the list of companies going head-to-head in the area of card payments by way of smartphone attachments: today, Berlin-based <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sumup.com">SumUp</a> i