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xPressTap: mPOS Without The Dongle

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Instead of a dongle, micromerchants download an app which turns their NFC-enabled phone into a point of sale (POS) system in minutes. The POS is capable of doing business with anyone who has a contactless card or NFC-enabled smartphone. First, users can have a customer tap their EMV chip card directly on the phone.

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Samsung Pay: From Mobile Payment Method To Commerce Enabler

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Two years ago, when Samsung Pay entered the mobile payments scene, it did what Apple and Android a year before it had not: It made mobile payment capabilities at the physical point of sale (POS) more or less ubiquitous right out of the gate. That, Ahn said, made something on the order of 10 million merchants throughout the U.S.