Thursday , December 11, 2025

Competitive Strategies

HungerRush Enables Direct Connections for Delivery; DoorDash’s Preferred Integrations Program

HungerRush, a provider of point-of-sale and online-ordering systems for restaurants, has launched the Grubhub Marketplace integration for its POS platform. The Grubhub Marketplace integration allows restaurants to “reduce technology clutter” by receiving Grubhub orders directly from the HungerRush POS platform, HungerRush says. The integration also enables orders from DoorDash and …

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New Markets Are Just the Ticket for Affirm And Nuvei

Ticketing is set for rapid growth, and payments firms are jockeying to get a piece of the action. Affirm Inc. announced early Tuesday it will offer its buy now, pay later option for lift tickets sold through Cali Pass at more than 20 ski resorts, six of them in California. …

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Nuvei; BHMI Preps for IFPA July 1 and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/20/25

Payments-software developer BHMI said it has updated its Concourse Financial Services Suite to allow firms to comply with the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, which is set to take effect July 1. The law prohibits interchange on state and local taxes and on tips. Galileo Financial Technologies launched Galileo Payment Method Switch, technology …

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A ThreatMark Tool Gives Consumers a Role in Identifying Scams

As scams and fraud continue to wreak havoc on consumers and financial services companies, one fraud-prevention firm has released a service it says will help consumers better self-identify potential deceptive payment decisions. ThreatMark released ScamFlag, a service banks can add to their mobile-banking apps to help give consumers more insight …

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Global Payments Launches Its Genius Platform

Global Payments Inc. has rolled out its long-awaited Genius point-of-sale package of products and services. Touted by Global Payments as a “POS command center for business operations,” Genius is a major step in the Atlanta-based company’s quest to unify all of the its POS products into a single, configurable POS …

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How Barry McCarthy Is Steering Deluxe Into Digital Payments

At the helm of Deluxe Corp. since 2018, Barry McCarthy is seeing a payoff from the company’s shift from paper-based to electronic payments. Minneapolis-based Deluxe, which posted $2.1 billion in 2024 revenue, has seen its percentage of overall revenue attributed to its payments services, which includes merchant services and business-to-business …

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Zoho Launches Zoho Payments In the U.S. Market

Zoho Corp., an Indian multinational software company, is launching Zoho Payments in the United States. Zoho Payments is an embedded-payments solution that enables businesses to collect one-time and recurring payments from customers, online and within Zoho apps.  Billed by Zoho as an out-of-the box payment solution, Zoho Payments supports the …

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Mastercard Looks to Support Stablecoins in a Deal With Wallet Provider MoonPay

The big card networks have worked for several years to exploit the growing business of transactions based on cryptocurrency, and the latest development emerged early Thursday with an announcement that Mastercard Inc. is looking to enable acceptance of stablecoin-backed cards at the more than 150 million merchants worldwide that accept …

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77% Tire of Drive-Thru Wait and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/15/25

SoundHound AI Inc. said of the 94% of U.S. consumers who use voice assistants while driving or have voice assistants available 77% would rather place their orders using an in-car voice assistant rather than wait in a traditional drive-thru lane. The survey, conducted by research firm Big Village, included responses from …

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AI Engine Perplexity Adds PayPal to Its Commerce Suite

Artificial intelligence engine Perplexity.AI will soon enable PayPal and Venmo payments for products, travel, and tickets that are found via its tool. Announced Wednesday by PayPal Holding Inc., the service will be enabled this summer for U.S. subscribers to Perplexity Pro, which is $20 per month. This is the second …

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