Source While RFID chips have been around for quite a while, and are getting smaller – think a grain of rice cut down to a third of the original size – the applications for these passive devices are ever increasing. A company in Wisconsin called Snagg currently markets an RFID chip retrofitting kit for just $25, allowing you to insert [...]
Source MasterCard has announced financial results for the fourth quarter 2011. Net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $1.7 billion, a 20.2% increase versus the same period in 2010. On a constant currency basis, net revenue increased 20.8% compared to the same period in 2010. Worldwide purchase volume during the quarter was up 15.2% on a local currency [...]
Source On the web: Visa’s Saunders Downplays Merchant-Cost Concerns For Digital Wallet – ISO and Agent Report: 798 Daily Deal Sites Folded In The Last 6 Months Of 2011 – TechCrunch Amazon Pulls Plug on PayPhrase Service – Mashable On the wires: Valero Corner Stores Get New ATMs and Program Manager in Cardtronics Businesses Can Capture Signatures, Easily Calculate Taxes [...]
Source Yesterday afternoon Apple released “Security Update 2012-001” for Snow Leopard. We strongly recommend that you DO NOT install this update. We have discovered that this update causes Diamond to crash when an Open or Save dialog is prompted. This will affect several places in Diamond including, backup, importing, selecting a label command file, print dialog, etc. To fully prevent [...]
Source For retail merchants, one of the core ingredients to success is offering products at competitive prices.
Source Consumers are expected to shop online more in 2012, preferring the peace and quiet of their own living room to the hustle and bustle of brick-and-mortar stores.
Source When retailers think about growth strategies, they often come up with things they can directly control.
Source Fed up with long lines in-store or on the phone, many customers are turning to online communities to get answers to their retail problems.
Source In today’s world, it’s almost impossible to have a business without being able to accept credit cards or debit cards. Whether you have a physical store or an online store, the ability to process credit and debit cards allows customers Read more…
Source Over on Payments Views, Glenbrook’s Scott Loftesness blogs about the new FIS approach to mobile payments: With much of the card payments industry zigging toward an NFC-based solution securing payment card credentials on mobile handsets, FIS is zagging in a different direction with this new solution – one that doesn’t need to wait for NFC and Secure Element (SE) [...]
