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News & Updates / Portfolio / SCVNGR / posted on April 6th, 2012 — 1 comment
by James Wester
LevelUp is growing up. The payment app from mobile gaming company SCVNGR lets consumers pay at restaurants with their smartphones, and the company claimed its payment method is now approaching par with MasterCard, Visa, Amex and Discover. “Approaching” maybe, but LevelUp is only available in a handful of cities, so they may have a way to go before the big four card brands feel threatened.
This moment of hubris, a quality LevelUp has been cultivating with cheeky press announcements in the past year, is thanks to a new deal it has with Revel Systems, a maker of point of sale terminals. LevelUp announced that its QR code-based payment method will now be available as a payment option on all POS terminals from Revel Systems, offered alongside the other four major credit card brands. This is the first of what LevelUp hopes will be a series of such partnerships.
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News & Updates / Portfolio / SCVNGR / posted on March 30th, 2012 — No comments
by Kyle Alspach
What do you do when you get forced out of your superbly-designed office building because it’s about to be razed? Hold a paintball tournament inside the office, obviously.
That’s the plan at the 28,000-square-foot Cambridge office currently occupied by mobile tech startup SCVNGR.
The event, slated for next Friday night, is dubbed “Cubicle Assassins: SCVNGR Startup Paintball.”
“Seek refuge in a private office, just don’t get caught out in the open board room or a rival CEO will surely light you up,” says the event description on Eventbrite.
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