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Samsung has launched a campaign to give Robbie Williams fans the chance to meet the star by simply tapping NFC tags located in black cabs in three UK cities. For the campaign, run by VeriFone... More

POS maker VeriFone and Korea-based IT company SK C&C have announced they are working together to deploy mobile wallet solutions for "several large mobile network operators". "Our partnership with VeriFone will enable MNOs to rapidly... More

MasterPass covers in-store and online payments, supports both NFC and QR codes and enables "banks, merchants and partners" to offer their own wallets to consumers. More

Active users are now paying with Isis five or more times a week, says Jim Stapleton, the NFC payments platform's chief sales officer. "Consumers actually only need to know about the passcode, and you kind of have a mental 'Oh!' right there as they realize their leather wallet does not have a passcode," he explained. More

The Chinese carrier and bank will be using VeriFone's Paymedia Mobile Marketing Platform to enable merchants, brands and third parties to deploy targeted campaigns to NFC mobile wallet users in the city of Shen Yang. More

US NFC venture Isis is on course to go live in September, narrowly managing to meet its planned launch date of "this summer", according to Bloomberg, which says that Verifone CEO Doug Bergeron revealed the... More

Deals giant Groupon is testing a mobile payments acceptance service that would compete with Square, PayPal Here and Verifone Sail, according to VentureBeat. The service is reported to come with a free iPod Touch and... More

The tiny pacific island nation has become one of the first countries in the world to get a commercial NFC service with the launch of 'Beep and Go', a service introduced by local carrier Digicel that works in conjunction with NFC phones and stickers as well as the carrier's existing Mobile Money remittance service and Verifone's mWallet technology. More

VeriFone, Ingenico, Vivotech and Equinox are all adding support for the US NFC venture's SmartTap service, enabling merchants to both accept payments and process coupons and offers via Isis mobile phones. More

German payments processor B+S Card Service has adopted VeriFone's PayWare TCS, part of the POS terminal maker's new Paymedia UAP platform which enables merchant terminals to be remotely updated with the ability to process new... More

POS maker VeriFone has unveiled Paymedia Universal Acceptance Platform (UAP), a new platform designed to make it easy for mobile network operators and other mobile wallet providers to enable merchants to support their NFC payments,... More

US broadcaster NBC has extended an agreement with Verifone which will see the television network's content and ads appear on the POS company's payment-enabled out-of-home advertising system. Verifone Media has screens in 12,000 taxis —... More

VeriFone has completed its €600m acquisition of Point International, northern Europe's largest provider of payment and gateway services and solutions for retailers and a supplier to PayPal's NFC trial in Stockholm. Point provides point-of-sale technology... More

"Over the next few months we'll be testing many different proximity payments technologies (including NFC) and exploring numerous partnership opportunities," says the online payments giant. More

POS terminal supplier Verifone has entered "a must-have phase for chip-and-PIN almost everywhere around the globe," CEO Douglas Bergeron told analysts during its fourth quarter earnings call, Bank Technology News reports. "I think we are... More

VeriFone has acquired electronic payments specialist Point International from Nordic Capital for €600m (US$812m) as the POS terminal maker accelerates its transition to a managed services revenue model. Stockholm-based Point provides a range of services... More

POS terminal maker Verifone has bought mobile retail specialist Global Bay. The purchase enables Verifone to move from the point of sale to the retail floor, accepting payments on smartphones and tablets using Global Bay's... More

POS terminal maker VeriFone has announced the H5000, a countertop point-of-sale terminal that accepts NFC and contactless payments as well as mag stripe and EMV chip cards. The device is positioned as a successor to... More

US department stores Macy's and Bloomingdale's are replacing signature pads at all 50,000 point-of-sale terminals with new customer response units developed by Verifone, reports Retail Touchpoints. The new devices, expected to be in place by... More

The US business of point-of-sale terminal manufacturer Hypercom has changed its name to Equinox Payments. Hypercom US was sold to private equity firm The Gores Group in August 2011 as part of a deal to... More