Mobile App Wants To Bring People To The Movies
Mobile App Wants To Bring People To The Movies
July 22, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

Dealflicks, a company that prides itself on being the “Priceline for movie tickets,” announced this week that it had raised $1.7 million in seed funding....

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Verizon Launches Reward Program (For Customers Willing To Be Tracked)
Verizon Launches Reward Program (For Customers Willing To Be Tracked)
July 22, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

This week Verizon Wireless will be the first nationwide cell phone carrier to launch a loyalty program  for its 100-million-plus subscribers.  A loyalty program with...

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Dell Accepts Bitcoin
Dell Accepts Bitcoin
July 22, 2014  |  News

The U.S.-based computer technology company Dell partnered with Coinbase to enable accepting Bitcoin as a payment method option for online purchases. Get the Full Story...

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Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 21
Innovation Investment Tracker | Week of July 21
July 21, 2014  |  Exclusive Series

An acquisition and an auction drove the bulk of investment activity last week. Of the venture  back moves, alternative lending and electronification of documents paved the way. Get the Full...

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UK Banks May Be Anticompetitive
UK Banks May Be Anticompetitive
July 21, 2014  |  Financial Inclusion

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently announced that it would launch an investigation into the UK retail banking sector to determine whether the...

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HighJump Software Acquisition Will Impact B2B Global Trade
HighJump Software Acquisition Will Impact B2B Global Trade
July 21, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Supply chain management software company HighJump Software announced last week that it acquired Atlas Products International, which provides Software as a Service (SaaS)-based business-to-business (B2B) EDI...

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Alibaba Goes Postal In Brazil
Alibaba Goes Postal In Brazil
July 21, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

The Chinese eCommerce powerhouse Alibaba announced last week that it partnered with Brazil’s state-owned postal services company, Correios  in order to help the country’s SMBs sell their...

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ACI Acquires ReD
ACI Acquires ReD
July 21, 2014  |  Acquiring

ACI Worldwide announced this morning that it will acquire Retail Decisions (ReD) for $205M. The transaction will close in Q3 2014. Get the Full Story...

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eBay Finds Big Demand For In-Store Pickup
eBay Finds Big Demand For In-Store Pickup
July 21, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

According to eBay executives, its Click and Collect service in Britain – essentially an in-store pick up option – is gaining greater traction than its same-day...

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