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Elo launches a feature for cell phones to receive contactless payments
The Brazilian payment technology company Elo has launched a new feature that allows contactless payments on cell phones and tablets already enabled to operate as POS terminals .
The B2B2C product is made available to acquirers , who then offer the solution to their customers . The first company to use the solution , called Tap On Phone , is the US acquirer Fiserv .
Tap On Phone is focused on small and medium-sized businesses and enables mobile devices with NFC technology to receive credit and debit payment transactions , including in installments .
With the app installed on the tablet or cell phone , merchants will be able to use their devices to make contactless payments using contactless Elo cards and digital wallets such as Google Pay and Apple Pay . The service can be used on any Android smartphone or tablet that has at least version 9.0 installed , NFC support , 3G or 4G chip , and Wi-Fi .
According to Felipe Maffei , Director of Products and Innovation at Elo , by adding the proximity payment function , the solution democratizes access to digital payments , besides expanding the acceptance of contactless payments throughout the country .
The Tap On Phone technology also has other functionalities , such as sending sales receipts via SMS or email , generating a complete daily sales report and even reversing transactions .
Kong introduces load balancing concept ZeroLB
Marco Palladino , CTO and Cofounder , Kong , added : “ Traditional load balancers were built for the monolithic era and don ’ t work well with today ’ s cloud-native applications because they are slow and create points of failure that cause businesses to lose customers and sales .
Kong has unveiled a new concept called
ZeroLB and a breakthrough pattern for load balancing .
ZeroLB is a modern , decentralized load balancing pattern that aims to remove every load balancer that is being deployed in front of individual services and applications . In this capacity , ZeroLB eliminates the need for elastic cloud load balancers , software load balancers and hardware load balancers from the equation .
Martin Casado , Co-founder , Nicira , said : “ ZeroLB is a fundamental concept to adopt in a decentralised world .”
“ I ’ m thrilled to be spearheading this effort at Kong to evangelise the ZeroLB movement , where legacy load balancing as we know it within the network is dead . Kong is introducing a new way of building load balancers for today ’ s modern era of software architectures by decentralising it .”
ZeroLB reduces costs , improves network performance by removing extra hops in the network , removes complexity in applications and gives access to more advanced selfhealing capabilities , while simultaneously maximizing portability across every environment and every cloud .
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