Groupon testing PayPal's rival

Source: Times of India

Groupon, the largest daily coupon website, is testing a credit card-reader for merchants that could vie with similar devices offered by Square SAN FRANCISCO: Groupon, the largest daily coupon website, is testing a credit card-reader for merchants that ...
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France: SIM-Based Security Passes to Get Test Run at French Airport

Source: NFC Times

Fifty passengers at French regional airport Toulouse-Blagnac will test an application that puts a security pass to access airport facilities on SIM cards in BlackBerry NFC phones. China-based phone maker ZTE indicated it ...
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PayPal inks mobile payment deal with 15 retailers

Source: BGR

PayPal earlier this year announced a partnership with The Home Depot that allowed customers to make point-of-sale transactions with their smartphones in more than 2,000 locations. The e-commerce company on Thursd ...
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Duluth company NCR sees small businesses as way to grow

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

Debbie Bertsch's cash registers are only a few years old, but she describes them as archaic. "Because technology has changed so much, we are behind the times," said the executive director of the Humane Society Thrift Store of Forsyth C ...
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PayPal extends influence with 15 national U.S. retailers

Source: Smart Planet Blog

After a successful pilot program with Home Depot that turned into a nationwide rollout, payment and shopping services company PayPal has signed up 15 additional retailers in the United States. Here’s how its new of ...
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Google Wallet: What can you buy with it now?

Source: CNET

(Credit: Roger Cheng/CNET) So it's been a year since Google unveiled its Google Wallet mobile payment app for Android smartphones. Just like many folks, I wanted to find out if there's anything worth purchasi ...
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Is NFC killing Google Wallet?

Source: CNET

Google may have backed the wrong horse when it decided to tie its Google Wallet payment app to the short-range wireless near field communications technology. Google Wallet, Google's mobile payment, has been slow to gai ...
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Groupon Tests A Cash Register, PayPal Eyes An ATM To Provide Alternatives To Banks' Services

Source: The Huffington Post

Groupon is making cash registers and PayPal has a new ATM? It's just another week in the growing market for mobile payments and alt-banking services, which are challenging banks on their own turf. First is Groupon, which ...
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PayPal Rolls Out To 15 More National Retailers, Announces Deals With 6 Top POS Software & Terminal Makers

Source: TechCrunch

PayPal is expanding its in-store payments technology to 15 new national retailers, following its initial brick-and-mortar rollout with Home Depot earlier this year. At a press conference held yesterday at PayPals’s San Jose HQ, the company con ...
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