{"id":319,"date":"2008-02-11T08:12:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T13:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantaccountblog.com\/archives\/319"},"modified":"2008-02-11T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T13:23:43","slug":"hypercom-ingenico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/319\/hypercom-ingenico","title":{"rendered":"Hypercom + Ingenico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ingenico made an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingenico.com\/Press-release_1160.html?lg=UK\">offer to purchase Hypercom corporation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingenico.com\/\">Ingenico<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypercom.com\/\">Hypercom<\/a> are two of the largest credit card terminal manufacturers after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verifone.com\/\">Verifone<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/archives\/112\">Verifone made a purchase of the Lipman corporation<\/a> about a year and a half ago, which set their market share far ahead of any competitor. <\/p>\n<p>The combination of Ingenico and Hypercom would create a company with an annual revenue of around 800M. Verifone is currently at about 2B so there is still a sizable gap, but this could create some real competition for Verifone.<\/p>\n<p>Ingenico is less popular in the US than in other countries, but they make some very interesting products, and was one of the first to offer a reliable pay at the table solution. Hypercom is the number two terminal manufacturer in the US. Hypercom would be an excellent medium for Ingenico to grow their US presence. <\/p>\n<p>I think that this would be a very smart acquisition for both Hypecom and Ingenico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingenico made an offer to purchase Hypercom corporation. Ingenico and Hypercom are two of the largest credit card terminal manufacturers after Verifone. Verifone made a purchase of the Lipman corporation about a year and a half ago, which set their market share far ahead of any competitor. The combination of Ingenico and Hypercom would create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-card-equipment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}