PayPal's new card reader supports Chip and PIN and Windows devices

PayPal released its first credit card reader — PayPal Here, designed to let merchants take payments on mobile devices — in 2012. Now, almost three years later, PayPal is updating its PayPal Here hardware to work with EMV "Chip and PIN" cards in the US, and adding support for Windows 8.1 devices such as Surface tablets and Lumia phones.

This marks the first time PayPal Here will be available on Windows, and Microsoft is taking advantage of the move to market its Surface Pro 3 as a complete point-of-sale device that sellers can use to manage their business, track their finances, and actually take payments. The company says merchants will be able to buy the complete POS system — with Surface tablet, PayPal Here reader, and a new set of...

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