Singapore water kiosk maker secures $100M investment

January 26, 2022

GEM Global Yield LLC, a Luxembourg-based private investment company, has committed SGD 135 ($100.39 million) in funding for Vending Machines International, a…

2022: Optimism rides high for self-serve kiosks

Self-service projects put on hold during the pandemic are back on track, and increased demands for self-checkout are expected to continue post pandemic.

Non-profit to install health kiosk in Dallas

January 26, 2022

The non-profit Urban Inter-Tribal Center of Texas has teamed with medifriendRx, a health care technology provider, to install its first pharmacy…

Samsung Canada teams with Luxembourg tech firm on touchless interactive kiosk

January 26, 2022

Samsung Electronics Canada has teamed with iNUI Studio, a Luxembourg technology company, to launch the AirxTouch Kiosk Series 3, a touchless interactive kiosk…

Concessions International teams with Shift4 for airport foodservice

January 25, 2022

Concessions International, a provider of food and beverage solutions at U.S. airports and in the Virgin Islands, has partnered with Shift4, a provider of…

PLS Financial Service Centers to install Coinstar kiosks in 12 states

January 25, 2022

PLS Financial Services Centers, a Chicago-based operator of financial service centers, will install Coinstar kiosks at 200 of its centers in 12 states…

iBrands Global acquires Vendx, InCharged

January 25, 2022

iBrands Global, a supply chain platform and brand collective, has acquired Vendx, an interactive, touchscreen vending machine provider, and InCharged, a cell…

Impulsify reports 235% gain in hotel grab-and-go deployments

January 25, 2022

Impulsify Inc., a provider of self-service technology, reported a 235% increase in deployments of its ShopPoP self-service kiosk in 2021, according to a press…

Cantaloupe upgrades Yoke micro market platform

January 25, 2022

Cantaloupe Inc., a digital payments and software services company that provides end-to-end technology solutions for the unattended retail market, has upgraded…

Visa warns retailers against ‘cashless ATMs’

January 25, 2022

Visa recently sent a memo to acquirers that it prohibits a scheme known as "cashless ATMs" whereby point-of-sale purchases are miscoded as ATM cash…

Bitcoin of America surpasses 1,500 Bitcoin ATM deployments

January 25, 2022

Bitcoin of America, has now deployed more than 1,500 Bitcoin ATMs across the U.S. This coincides with multiple updates to the ATMs, including Ethereum…

Fastenal improves Q4 and FY 2021 sales, earnings

January 25, 2022

Fastenal Co., provider in the wholesale distribution of industrial and construction supplies and industrial vending services, improved both sales and earnings…

Position Imaging intros smart package room resellers program

January 25, 2022

Position Imaging Inc., a package logistics and asset tracking provider, has introduced its Smart Package Room Partners Program to expand resellers' product…

Georgia seeks driver services kiosks that take pictures

January 24, 2022

The Georgia Department of Driver Services is seeking $1.2 million for 15 self-service kiosks that take users' pictures and print temporary permits and licenses…

How McDonald’s helps low vision customers with self-serve kiosks

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Attendees at the Self-Service Innovation Summit last month got an inside look at this project during a "Lunch And Learn" session, titled, "Making Self-Service…

Using Innovative Technology to Provide Outstanding Visual Performance

Clear Cobalt is the new generation of display products from Absen, using several innovative technologies to provide outstanding visual performance versus…

Japanese food, flower retailers add vending machines during pandemic

January 24, 2022

Frozen food and flower retailers are installing vending machines during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in thenewsmotion.com.

Indiana deploys free naxolone vending machines

January 24, 2022

Residents can get free naxolone at a newly installed vending machine at Clark Memorial Health in Jeffersonville, Indiana, the first of 19 such machines planned…

Internet kiosks find niche among poor in the Philippines

January 21, 2022

Internet kiosks known as "pisonets" have become popular among low income people in the Philippines who lack regular Internet access, according to a…

Texas town updates water bill payment kiosk

January 21, 2022

Residents of Coppell, Texas will temporarily be unable to pay their water bills online or through the self-serve kiosk outside of Coppell Town Center while the…