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BitPay and Verifone, have announced the extension of BitPay’s blockchain payment technology to enable consumer cryptocurrency acceptance of payments on Verifone’s in-store and e-commerce platforms in the US. This enables merchants to... read more

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Verifone Systems and Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity firm, have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which an investor group led by Francisco Partners and including British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (“BCI”) will acquire Verifone for $23.04 per share in cash, representing a total consideration of approximately $3.4 billion, [...]

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Verifone is reportedly investigating a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of companies running its POS solutions, according to sources. Verifone says the extent of the breach was limited to its corporate network and that its payment services network was not impacted – according to Krebs online. On Jan. 23, 2017, [...]

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Verifone and Samsung have teamed up to accelerate merchant adoption of Samsung Pay. As the most widely accepted mobile payment system in the US, Samsung Pay works almost anywhere users can swipe or tap a card. “As we enable innovators like Samsung to create amazing experiences leveraging our products, we want to make sure that [...]

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