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<title>Verifone cuts Sail, pulls out of mobile card payments</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/14/mobile.payments.deemed.fundamentally.unprofitable/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1336422749_verifonepaymentin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Payment processor VeriFone is withdrawing from the mobile card payments market, citing "razor-thin margins." The decision to shutter Square-competitor Sail came to light during a quarterly conference call, with CEO Doug Bergeron calling the market for low-volume merchant processing as "fundamentally unprofitable."...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>VeriFone to bring out Square-like payment card reader</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/07/verifone.to.bring.out.sail.card.reader.to.defend.against.square/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1336422749_verifonepaymentin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[VeriFone will release a new card reader that plugs into the iPhone or iPad's 3.5mm headphone input to process payments. A step up from its PayWare solution for hardware, the new device, called SAIL, will be very close to Square's hardware. VeriFone already makes card payment hardware for larger businesses and stores, and is trying to protect this client base from smaller up and comers like Squar...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:32:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Square readers quietly add hardware encryption </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/27/square.upgrades.readers.with.hardware.encryption/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/squareencryptedin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Square readers have just been upgraded to offer hardware encryption, VentureBeat found. The company is planning on upgrading existing readers without hardware encryption to the new ones. The new security measure will encrypt credit card numbers as they are sent from the reader to the app on the mobile device, keeping it secure even before it needs to go online....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PayPal may unveil Square-alike reader on Thursday</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/12/paypal.may.clash.directly.with.square.hardware/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/square-iphone4-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[PayPal's mobile payment technology may lead to a direct competitor to Square. leaks emerging from GigaOM would have a plug-in reader to let a smartphone, and presumably a tablet, take credit cards through a native app.  Other than a possible triangle shape, not much was known about what it would entail besides a launch on Thursday....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Isis NFC payments being woven into point-of sale gear </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/05/isis.partners.with.payment.hardware.makers/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1107/isis-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Isis, which is due to kick off this summer, has now secured cash register and payment hardware makers VeriFone, Ingenico, ViVOtech, and Equinox Payments as partners. They have vowed to integrate the Isis Mobile Commerce Application wireless payments technology into their future products. Isis will use NFC technology for payments, digital couponing, location-based social media offers, and more. It'...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Square wireless payments coming to NYC cabs, limos</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/01/square.approved.to.test.payment.gear.in.nyc.cabs/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/squarein.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Square readers for payments will be used in a few weeks during a testing project in New York City in 30 taxis before becoming more widespread. The test is part of the requirements that need to be met after the New York City Taxi and Limousine 
Commission approved Square's systems in cabs. Once testing is completed, there are plans to deploy the technology in over 13,000 cabs in the city....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>VeriFone offers Square clone for Android, iPad despite feud</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/06/30/verifone.payware.for.tablets.chases.square/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1106/verifonepaywaretablet.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[VeriFone partly bowed to pressure on Wednesday with the introduction of PayWare Mobile Enterprise for Tablets.  The option will give iPads, as well as Android 3 tablets, a hardware card reader and app combination that can serve as a store checkout much like Square's eponymous readers.  The VeriFone option claims an edge with PIN-based debit cards and support for NFC devices that can tap to make a ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Live updates from Google's NFC mobile payments event [ended]</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/26/we.cover.googles.mobile.wallet.event.in.nyc/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1105/googlenexuss4g-ctia.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google is holding an event in New York City where it's expected to unveil an NFC-based mobile payment system.  The service should involve at least Android phones from Sprint, an infrastructure from VeriFone, as well as several major stores.  Check in for live coverage at 12PM Eastern....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 15:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google NFC payment service due May 26 using Nexus S 4G [U]</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/24/google.nfc.service.unveiling.with.sprint.soon/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1105/googlenexuss-nfc.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[(Update: first stores) Google's rumored NFC-based payment system will be unveiled Thursday, three insiders leaked on Tuesday.  The system would let those with a Nexus S 4G on Sprint use their devices to both buy goods and use coupons by waving the phone at a VeriFone-supplied terminal.  Google hasn't the confirmed details provided by Bloomberg but is holding an event in New York City on Thursday t...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/24/google.nfc.service.unveiling.with.sprint.soon/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 19:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US sues VeriFone to block buyout of rival Hypercom </title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/12/justice.fears.competition.in.pos.market.at.risk/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1105/hypercom-pos-terminal-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit seeking to block Verifone from gobbling up rival point-of-sale (POS) credit card information equipment vendor Hypercom. According to DOJ, the market is very concentrated. Verifone holds a 48 percent share of the US market, Hypercom, a 18 percent share, and French-based Ingenico 26 percent. Verifone had planned to sell off Hypercom's US operation to ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 22:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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