Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

USA Technologies announces first $5 million quarter, Up 105%

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

USA Technologies, a company specializing in the networking of wireless non-cash transactions, associated financial/network services and energy management, has announced unaudited revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter ending June 30 of approximately $5 million compared with $2.4 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2007. This first $5 million quarter represents a revenue increase of 105% and marks the company’s fourth successive record revenue quarter.


Revenues for fiscal year ending June 30, total approximately $16,010,000 compared to $9,158,012 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, an increase of 76%. USA Technologies’ revenues during the month of June 2008 were in excess of $2,300,000, the largest monthly revenues in USA Technologies’ history.

During the fourth quarter ended June 30, 2008, the company processed approximately 3.9 million transactions totaling $10.4 million, compared with 1.5 million transactions equaling $6.7 million during the quarter ended June 30, 2007. This represents a 160% increase in transaction volume, and 55% in dollars processed.

“We are doing business with many of the biggest brands in the vending industry for both our ePort and EnergyMiser product line, which is rapidly driving up sales and transactions through our USALive network,” says Jensen. [end] 

AOptix Technologies announced that SITA, a specialist in air transport communications and information technology, has joined the AOptix Value Added Reseller program.

Under the partnership, SITA, who has customers in more than 200 countries which includes 300 airport locations, would be able to offer its customers AOptix solutions. These offerings include the InSight iris and face recognition product as an automated solution for airports to quickly and securely identify passengers at security checkpoints with documents such as biometric-enabled passports.

read more »

Payment terminal provider VeriFone Systems is riding out the European debt crisis with positive numbers for the fourth quarter, all while rapidly rolling out payment terminal installations in Latin America, reports American Banker.

read more »

Subway, the world’s largest sandwich chain, has announced it will begin accepting MasterCard PayPass contactless payments at more than 7,000 U.S. locations by the end of the first quarter of 2012.

read more »

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a competition to award a approximately $10 million for pilot projects to accelerate progress toward improved systems for interoperable, trusted online credentials that go beyond simple user IDs and passwords.

read more »

la Caixa and Visa Europe have begun rolling out their contactless payment system in Barcelona. The bank is set to make all cards and point-of-sale across Barcelona contactless, requiring the distribution of 1 million cards and more than 15,000 new POS terminals.

read more »

In Europe, the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) and EPASOrg has developed a new global standard to help accommodate changes in new payment technologies, according to SupermarketNews.com

read more »