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USA Technologies Inc. is an American company known for its work with ePort cashless acceptance technologyrunning on their patented ePort Connect service a PCI compliant, comprehensive suite of services designed specifically for the self serve, unattended market.ePort Connect wirelessly facilitates electronic payment options to consumers (so that payment can be made with credit debit or electronic wallets like Apple Pay and Softcard) while providing operators with both telemetry and machine-to-machine (M2M) services. ePort technology is primarily found in vending machines, kiosks and point-of-sale (POS) terminals, but the ePort Online and ePort Mobile products have extended the network to accept recurring payments from a PC or retail outlets and the taxi industry through smartphone devices. The company also produced other technology to address needs within the unattended industry such as the More Prepaid and Loyalty consumer engage program, ePort becon, facilitating Bluetooth payment options, and the EnergyMiser, a device that reduces the energy consumption of vending machines. ==History== USA Technologies was founded in 1992 and holds more than 87 patents on their products and services. USAT's patents pertain to all aspects of their industry, ranging from payment processing, transaction methods, and terminal connection methods, to energy management and telematics. There currently are over 250,000 connections to its ePort Connect Service.〔https://www.vendingtimes.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Vending+Features&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=A71A7D15362A4CF78E97DC2C84322D28〕 More recently, the company was named to Deloitte L.L.P’s 2014 Technology Fast 500 List of the fastest growing companies in North America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=USA Technologies Ranked On Deloitte's 2014 Technology Fast 500™ )〕 they worked with Setomatic Systems to be the first to bring NFC technology in the Self Service Laundry market 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=USA Technologies, Setomatic Systems Bring NFC-Based Mobile Payment and Loyalty Program to Commercial Laundry Market )〕 The Nilson Report ranked USA Technologies 6th in US (and 28th Worldwide) in POS shipments 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Nilson Report Ranks USA Technologies 6th in U.S. and 28th in Worldwide POS Terminal Shipments for 2013 )〕 and they received the 2014 Frost and Sullivan North American Customer Value Leadership Award in Financial Services and Retail M2M Communications.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=USA Technologies Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2014 North American Customer Value Leadership Award in Financial Services and Retail M2M Communications )〕 In 2010, a proxy fight for the company's board of directors took place with shareholder group SAVE Partners. This proxy fight ended with the addition of two SAVE Board candidates and modification of company policies. In 2012, there was another proxy fight involving SAVE, but this dispute resulted in no change to the board. USA Technologies' CEO George Jensen resigned in October 2011 after he was revealed to be posting company information to an investor board. Stephen Herbert was subsequently appointed as CEO and has been spearheading USA Technologies subsequent growth.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USA Technologies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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