POS and Retail

India has tightened rules regarding how foreign e-commerce platforms are allowed to sell goods in one of the fastest growing online markets, a potential blow to companies like Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc.’s Flipkart.

Despite what we assume are dedicated efforts to protect customer’s personal information, hackers are finding the loopholes in businesses’ process and technology data protection life cycle. It happened with Target in 2013, the Home Depot in 2014, and many others since, writes Todd Feinman, co-founder and chief product officer of Spirion.

Amazon.com Inc. reported a record-breaking holiday season as shoppers loaded their online baskets with items from Echo speakers to Calvin Klein clothes, suggesting consumer optimism isn’t being deterred by a tumbling stock market.

The new environment requires merchants to support a solid point of sale system, along with other business activities, writes CardConnect's Michael Mertz

Names, email, encrypted passwords and information related to Facebook and other networks are all at risk, according to Marty Puranik, CEO of Atlantic.Net.

Nestled among the waves of tourists and commuters near Grand Central Terminal is a spot were a “no cash” store is working, free from political pressures. But its success still suggests that paperless payments are a niche play.

Blockchain looks set to disrupt the gaming industry, and enable a new way for players and developers to interact with gaming platforms, writes Nicolas Gilot, Co-CEO of Ultra.

When so many users trust large companies like Google with their personal data, it's up to these companies to disclose any compromise of the data security as early as possible, writes Aman Khanna, vice president of products for ThumbSignIn.

Web attacks spike around the holidays, creating a higher risk for malware, phishing and other crime, according to Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success for NuData Security, a Mastercard company.

FIS is collaborating with loyalty marketing firm Excentus to extend FIS’s consumer loyalty program to 13,400 U.S. Shell fuel stations.