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Verifone: History, Companies, Art & Technology

Verifone, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City, New York. Verifone provides technology for electronic payment transactions and value-added services at the point-of-sale. Verifone sells merchant-operated, consumer-facing and self-service payment systems to the financial, retail, hospitality, petroleum, government…

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Verifone topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies, Art and Technology as prominent areas in the source structure around Verifone.

Related topics
62
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
66
Extracted relationships
181
Concept neighborhoods
21
Bridge connections
66

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 29 topics
Products · 22 topics
Corporate affairs · 8 topics
Competition · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
1981; 45 years ago (1981) in Hawaii, U.S.
Industry
Banking & finance, electronics
Owner
Francisco Partners · BCI
Headquarters
New York City, New York, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Founder
Original founder Kenneth Berger Later sold to William "Bill" Melton

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

History

Products

Competition

Corporate affairs

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Verifone connects Entity context

The extracted context around Verifone shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Verifone → Bluetooth-integrated, CDMA, EBT, ECR, ECRs, EMV, Ethernet, Family, GPRS, In, It, Its, Its VX Evolution, Near, NFC, NFC-based, November, Omni, Omni3730, PIN Another extracted example is Verifone → Bluetooth, Contactless, Credit, Debit, EBT, EMV, GPRS, In, Inc, It, Its, Mobile, Near, NFC, PIN, PIN-based, Services, Systems Solutions, The, The Services. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Verifone

Top relations

related to Countertop and PIN Pads · 41
Verifone → Bluetooth-integrated, CDMA, EBT, ECR, ECRs, EMV, Ethernet, Family, GPRS, In, It, Its, Its VX Evolution, Near, NFC, NFC-based, November, Omni, Omni3730, PIN
related to Products · 22
Verifone → Bluetooth, Contactless, Credit, Debit, EBT, EMV, GPRS, In, Inc, It, Its, Mobile, Near, NFC, PIN, PIN-based, Services, Systems Solutions, The, The Services
related to 1990s: Expansion into new markets · 19
Verifone → As, Bangalore, Brazil, By, California, Dallas, England, Ft, Gemstone, Hawaii, International, Latin American, Lauderdale, March, MasterCard, Revenues, Rolling, Singapore, Visa
related to Multimedia Customer Facing · 16
Verifone → All, ECR, EFT-POS, Embedded Linux, FST FancyPants, GUI, In, Its, MX, NFC, Opera, POS, The, The MX, These, Visual Payment Terminals
related to 2000s: Acquisitions · 15
Verifone → Dione, Dublin, In October, In September, Irish, Israeli-based Lipman Electronics, Lipman, London, Montevideo, Neu-Isenburg, NURIT, On November, Trintech Group, United Kingdom-based Dione, USD
related to 1980s: Introduction and rapid growth · 13
Verifone → By, Early, In, It, MasterCard, POS, Redwood City, San Francisco, The, This, Visa, Working, ZON
related to history · 11
Verifone → Bill, Domestic, Hawaii, In, Melton, POS, Since, The, Veri, Verifone's, William
related to overview · 11
Verifone → As, Core, EU, Founded, From, Hawaii, October, On November, POS, The, Verifone's
related to Competition · 8
Verifone → Competition, Finally, First Data Corporation, For, Moreover, PAX TechnologyIngenicoNCR Corporation, The, Verifone's
Products · 6
Verifone → loyalty and upselling solution, payment services, Payment terminals, POS systems for the petro and convenience industry, tablet-based POS software, taxi media and advertising

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

systems payment company company's products card including million also software services board electronic pos transaction committee credit verifone's corporate new

Verifone relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 181 structured relationships around Verifone. Examples in this analysis include Verifone → Area served → Worldwide and Verifone → Founded → 1981; 45 years ago (1981) in Hawaii, U.S.. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
VerifoneArea servedWorldwide1.00infobox
VerifoneFounded1981; 45 years ago (1981) in Hawaii, U.S.1.00infobox
VerifoneFounderOriginal founder Kenneth Berger Later sold to William "Bill" Melton1.00infobox
VerifoneHeadquartersNew York City, New York, U.S.1.00infobox
VerifoneIndustryBanking & finance, electronics1.00infobox
VerifoneKey peopleHimanshu Patel (CEO)1.00infobox
VerifoneNumber of employees5,0001.00infobox
VerifoneOwnerFrancisco Partners1.00infobox
VerifoneOwnerBCI1.00infobox
VerifoneProductsPayment terminals1.00infobox
VerifoneProductstablet-based POS software1.00infobox
VerifoneProductsPOS systems for the petro and convenience industry1.00infobox
VerifoneProductspayment services1.00infobox
VerifoneProductstaxi media and advertising1.00infobox
VerifoneProductsloyalty and upselling solution1.00infobox
VerifoneRevenueUS$1.8 billion (2014)1.00infobox
VerifoneServicesPayment as a service1.00infobox
VerifoneTotal assetsUS$3.748 billion (2012)1.00infobox
VerifoneTotal equityUS$1.384 billion (2013)1.00infobox
VerifoneTypePrivate1.00infobox
VerifoneWebsiteverifone.com1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Verifone bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Transaction, Company and Market. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • secure electronic transaction
    • Payment
    • Internet
    • Devices
    • Systems
    • Transactions
    • Support
    • Applications
    • Products
    • Verifone
    • Pos
    • Software
    • Inc
  • mobile payment
    • Systems
    • Devices
    • Pos
    • Services
    • Transactions
    • Products
    • Software
    • Verifone
    • Including
    • Pin
    • Technology
    • Countertop
  • contactless payment
    • Systems
    • Devices
    • Pos
    • Services
    • Transactions
    • Products
    • Software
    • Verifone
    • Including
    • Pin
    • Technology
    • Countertop
  • visa inc.
    • Transaction
    • Internet
    • New
    • Products
    • Verifone
    • Electronic
    • Software
    • Company
    • Also
    • Million
    • Pin
    • Countertop
  • cybercash, inc.
    • Transaction
    • Internet
    • New
    • Products
    • Verifone
    • Electronic
    • Software
    • Company
    • Also
    • Million
    • Pin
    • Countertop
  • products
    • Verifone's
    • Software
    • Including
    • Pin
    • Countertop
    • Transactions
    • Transaction
    • Verifone
    • Systems
    • Internet
    • Market
    • Credit
  • secure pos vendor alliance
    • Systems
    • Devices
    • Services
    • Software
    • Countertop
    • Applications
    • Market
    • Verifone
    • Verifone's
    • Also
    • Products
    • Pin
  • gores technology group
    • Devices
    • Applications
    • Payment
    • Transactions
    • Company's
    • Services
    • Software
    • Transaction
    • Card
    • Pin
    • Verifone
    • Countertop

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Verifone, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Verifone with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
VerifoneHistory · splits 37 ⟂ 30
VerifoneProducts · splits 44 ⟂ 23
VerifoneCorporate affairs · splits 58 ⟂ 9
VerifoneCompetition · splits 63 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Verifone

Nodes67
Edges66
Triples181
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029851
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Verifone to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies, Art & Technology, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Verifone · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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