Indian railway operator to deploy automatic ticket vending kiosks

May 28, 2014

India’s North Central Railway plans to install 222 automatic ticket vending machines at train stations in the Allahabad, Jhansi and Agra divisions, the Times…

Mini Coke machines sell mini Cokes

May 22, 2014

Coca-Cola worked with advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather Berlin to promote its miniature Coke cans at mini newsstand kiosks with mini vending machines in…

Fresh Healthy Vending launches healthy micro market

May 21, 2014

Fresh Healthy Vending International has launched the Fresh Micro Market, an unstaffed, automated self-checkout retail market which is stocked regularly with…

BYNDL, USA Technologies partner for mobile self-service marketing

May 21, 2014

Mobile marketing provider BYNDL has formed a strategic alliance with USA Technologies, a provider of cashless payment services for self-service vending. The…

DFW Airport lands North America’s only Pepsi #FUTBOLNOW interactive vending machine

May 15, 2014

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is hosting a Pepsi interactive vending machine at Terminal D as part of Pepsi’s 2014 football (read:soccer) marketing…

VendScreen adds Verizon as carrier for retrofit 3G devices

May 15, 2014

VendScreen, a manufacturer of payment touchscreens for vending machines, has added Verizon Wireless as an available cellular carrier for the retrofit 3G…

First Canadian marijuana vending machine launched

May 14, 2014

The B.C. Pain Society, a Vancouver-based medical marijuana dispensary, has opened what it claims is Canada’s first marijuana vending machine.

Pepsi launches new interactive vending kiosk for World Cup season

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Interactive virtual reality kiosk gives soccer fans a kick.

Microsoft Surface tablets and RFID tags power LeanBox kiosks

May 13, 2014

Needham, Massachusetts-based LeanBox is supplying self-service healthy food kiosks equipped with Microsoft Surface Tablets, RFID-tagged products and…

Washington State considers allowing marijuana vending machines

May 13, 2014

The recent unveiling of the ZaZZZ pot vending machine in Colorado has the State of Washington thinking about permitting the use of marijuana kiosks, reports…

Bitcoin Vending Network launched

May 12, 2014

Phoenix-based Cephas Holdings has launched the Bitcoin Vending Network for businesses interested in selling Bitcoins via vending machines and POS terminals…

Reinventing the vending machine

Between the "back-to-basics" of fresh food, and the "back-to-the-future" of new tech, vending kiosks have bright outlook.

ID-verifying marijuana-vending kiosk launched in Colorado

May 2, 2014

What is believed to be the first age- and identity-verifying legal marijuana-vending machine in the U.S. has been launched in Colorado. The Zazzz Automated…

Self-service pharmacy vending patent close, ADVS says

May 1, 2014

ADVS Technologies announced its patent for its Optimization of Pharmacy Operations using Automatic Distributed Vending System is in the final stages of…

British Columbia's high court condemns fraudulent vending machine franchise

May 1, 2014

The sale of a vending machine franchise in British Columbia, Canada, has been condemned as fraudulent by the B.C. Supreme Court, and the seller has been…

Pilot finds new touchscreens increase kiosk sales

April 29, 2014

Adding touchscreens to snack-dispensing kiosks increases sales, according to a pilot by VendScreen, a Portland, Ore.-based provider of retrofit touchscreens.

US market for intelligent vending machines set to grow

April 29, 2014

The availability of secure and user-friendly cashless payment options in retail stores has made the U.S. the leading country in the global market for…

Naturals2Go kiosks greet customers using facial recognition

April 29, 2014

U.S. healthy vending machine provider Naturals2Go is using facial recognition to offer quick-pick suggestions to its repeat customers.

3M offers personal protective equipment kiosk

April 28, 2014

3M Vending Solutions is marketing a kiosk that dispenses essential safety products for mining and other industries such as oil, gas, construction…

Prepaid data SIM card kiosk arrives at Osaka airport

April 28, 2014

Osaka's Kansai International Airport has become the first Japanese airport to introduce a prepaid data SIM card vending machine.