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- Target Corp. was hit by two point-of-sale glitches this past weekend. On Sunday afternoon the retailer was unable to process certain card transactions at some of its 1,800 stores for about 90 minutes due to an issue at a data center of its payment-services vendor, NCR Corp., Reuters reported. Sunday’s glitch was unrelated to a two-hour “internal technology issue” that caused long lines to form at checkout counters Saturday. Target said no customer data was compromised at any time.
- Visa Inc. said its Visa Advanced Authorization technology, which uses artificial intelligence, helped stop an estimated $25 billion in fraud for financial institutions in the 12 months through April 30.
- Point-of-sale system provider TouchBistro said it and EVO Payments Mexico will sell TouchBistro’s POS systems to restaurants in Mexico.
- Mastercard Inc. launched its Priceless Experiences skill for smart speakers. The skill, which will become available this summer, allows Mastercard cardholders to book tours, tables at restaurants, and other so-called experiences.
- ParcelPal Technology Inc. said its app is now available on the Shopify digital platform, which will enable Canadian-licensed cannabis producers that use Shopify to offer shipping to recreational and medicinal users.
- ClickPay, a payments provider for multifamily rental-property managers, and Carson, a developer of software for housing managers, announced an integration, enabling a single sign-in app experience for residents using Carson at properties that also use ClickPay.
- The U.S. Payments Forum released its “Consumer Experience at the Contactless Point of Sale” white paper to aid merchant contactless-payment acceptance.
- USAA, Commerce Ventures, and Checkfree founder Pete Kight have invested in a funding round for BillGO, a provider of real-time bill-pay services to consumers. The financing sum was not revealed.
- Mobile-payments provider Glance Technologies Inc. named Issa Nakhleh chief financial officer. Nakhleh previously worked at UrtheCast, an Earth-imaging company.
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