Hardware News & Media

Shell to acquire Volta for $169M

January 20, 2023

Shell USA Inc. has agreed to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock of Volta Inc., an electric vehicle charging and advertising…

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Fastenal boosts Q4, FY 2022 results on stronger industrial demand

January 19, 2023

Fastenal Co., a provider in the wholesale distribution of industrial and construction supplies and industrial vending services, lifted its Q4 and FY 202…

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Vancouver airport intros robotic smoothie machines

January 19, 2023

Travelers visiting Vancouver International Airport can buy smoothies 24/7 at five robotic smoothie machines provided by Burnaby, Canada-based TrendiTech Inc.…

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Tech partners intro retail self-checkout solution

January 19, 2023

OneView Commerce, a Hingham, Massachusetts-based provider of SaaS solutions for omnichannel retailers, has teamed with Anker Kassensysteme GmbH, a Bielefeld…

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Moscow extends biometric fare payment to airport railway service

January 19, 2023

Moscow Transport has launched its biometric fare payment system on the Aeroexpress airport railway service with two turnstiles in the northern and southern…

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Partteam & OEMKiosks introduces foodservice software

January 18, 2023

Partteam & OEMKiosks, a kiosk manufacturer based in Portugal, has introduced YCanteen/YSnack software for the foodservice sector to allow users to choose…

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DMV kiosk moves to Nevada supermarket

January 18, 2023

Motorists in Pahrump, Nevada will be able to renew vehicle registrations at a DMV kiosk in an Albertsons grocery store, according to a Pahrump Valley Times…

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Lesotho entrepreneur expands solar-powered charger kiosk

January 18, 2023

Kanono Thabane, an entrepreneur in Lesotho, is expanding his solar powered charging kiosk to help residents of rural off-the-grid areas. The kiosk can charge…

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Carvana adopts shareholder rights plan

January 17, 2023

Carvana Co.'s board of directors adopted a shareholder rights plan designed to protect long-term shareholder value by preserving the availability of Carvana's…

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Cantaloupe taps Discover’s Anna Novoseletsky as legal, compliance officer

January 17, 2023

Anna Novoseletsky Cantaloupe Inc., a digital payments and software services company that provides end-to-end technology solutions for self-service…

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Sacramento Kings taps Cheq for express f&b ordering at Golden 1 Center

January 17, 2023

The Sacramento Kings has partnered with Cheq, a social payments platform, to provide express kiosks, mobile ordering and social payments at Golden 1 Center…

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Contactless Moscow Metro payments jump 16% in 2022

January 17, 2023

Moscow commuters increased the use of contactless bankcard payments at payment terminals by 16% in 2022 over the prior year, reaching approximately 170 million…

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UMass removes self-order food kiosks due to poor performance

January 17, 2023

The University of Massachusetts has removed self-order kiosks from a dining hall in Amherst, Massachusetts after one week due to system failures and mixed…

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Kiosk Information Systems intros automated returns kiosk

January 17, 2023

Kiosk Information Systems has introduced a package-free and label-free self-service returns kiosk in partnership with Inmar Post Purchase Solutions, a software…

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Diebold Nixdorf taps SeeChange machine learning for self-checkout solutions

January 16, 2023

Diebold Nixdorf Inc., a designer of retail consumer and staff journeys, has teamed with SeeChange Technologies, a provider of retail-focused computer vision AI…

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Mobile pay and self-service kiosks: Partners or competitors?

by Elliot Maras — Editor, Kiosk Marketplace & Vending Times

Both mobile pay and kiosks have a role to play in today’s retail environment, but experts offered different views on whether or not the current customer demand…

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PopID teams with XPR, Samsung on face verification ordering kiosks

January 16, 2023

PopID, a biometric fintech company and XPR, a global kiosk software platform, have introduced an integrated solution on the new Samsung Kiosk Windows 10 IoT…

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Kiosk Information Systems teams with Banyan Hills Technologies on inventory tracking platform

January 13, 2023

Kiosk Information Systems has teamed with Banyan Hills Technologies to introduce inventory tracking features to KNECT IoT, KIS's self-service infrastructure…

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Toshiba to integrate PopPay face verification into self-service solutions

January 13, 2023

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, which provides unified commerce solutions, will integrate PopPay facial verification into Toshiba's front-end, point-of-sale…

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Partner Tech teams with Holo Industries on self-checkout with holographic touch

January 13, 2023

Partner Tech, a kiosk hardware manufacturer, has teamed with Holo Industries LLC to introduce its Bora Bora self-checkout and Mastercard payment with…

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