VeriFone calls it quits on mobile payments

It has barely been eight months since VeriFone announced its Sail mobile payments system, but the company is already retreating from the market.

PayPal partners with Verifone, Equinox to accept mobile payments in-store

At an event at eBay’s headquarters Thursday, online and mobile payment company PayPal announced partnerships with several point of sale system companies to integrate mobile check ins, electronic receipts, and PayPal integrated cash registers.

“In-store payments are a natural extension …

Whoops! VeriFone’s Sail user agreement ripped off Square’s

VeriFone’s Sail mobile-payments platform was clearly a Square wannabe from the beginning — now it seems that’s more true than we initially thought.

VeriFone apparently lifted significant chunks of its user agreement from Square, GigaOm’s Ryan Kim has discovered. While …

Come Sail away with Verifone’s new payment platform — yet another Square wannabe

Yup, it’s another credit card reader dongle for your phone. After launching the clunky PayWare credit card reader in early 2010, payment provider Verifone is today announcing Sail, a revamped mobile payment platform with a sleek new dongle to combat …

Exclusive: a sneak peek at the new tablet taxi Verifone is bringing to New York City

One thing Sam hates about being a Manhattan cabbie is picking up tourists hoping to see a Broadway show. “They are always yelling at me, drive faster, we’ve still got to buy our tickets.”

So Sam, who asked we not …

Mobile payments war escalates as Verizon blocks Google Wallet on Galaxy Nexus

Verizon wants to own your mobile identity, which may be why the company has blocked the Google Wallet mobile payments app on the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone.

Verizon is instead banking on the Isis mobile payments platform, which was …

Mobile payments turf war intensifies as Verifone acquires Point for for $1B+

Verifone has acquired European alternative payments provider Point, in an effort to broaden its range of mobile payment services for merchants and retailers, the company announced today.

Among its many payment offerings, Verifone makes near field communications (NFC) terminals that …