On a potentially historic day for the network, PayPal announced a massive slate of new payments partners, including fifteen retailers, four “mid-market” software providers, and, most notably, two of the world’s three largest point-of-sale terminal manufacturers.
Perhaps the most transformative of those partnerships is with VeriFone, which gives PayPal access to more than a million physical points of sale. Eighty of the 200 largest retailers in the U.S. use VeriFone’s POS technology, the company says.
