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809GlobalCollect Deal Fattens Virtual Piggy’s Processing Capabilities
Virtual Piggy Inc., provider of the Oink payment technology for families and teens, has entered into a partnership with processor GlobalCollect for...
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790New Virus Targets Global Financial Institutions
Security researchers are warning of a new Trojan that combines elements of the Zeus and Carberp families of malware that is targeting...
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619Alibaba Eyes SingPost
Alibaba will invest SGD 312.5 M (USD 249 M) for a 10.35% stake in Singapore Post. SingPost is a leading provider of...
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1.1KSubscription-TV Firm Dish To Accept Bitcoin
Dish Networks LLC will become the largest company to accept bitcoins, the subscription model pay-TV provider announced May 29. The wholly owned...
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706Mortgages Before Credit Cards? Consumers Say Yes
After the housing bubble burst several years ago, U.S. consumers began to default on their mortgages because they chose to instead make...
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834PayPal Australia Reassures Customers After Potential Data Breach
Some Apple users in Australia have found themselves victims of a unique attack by hackers through their iPhones. According to several reports,...
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822Square Gets Into the SMB Lending Biz
Square has announced that it will enter the small business lending business. Available to Square Register merchants, Square will provide short term...
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1.3KTouchPoint Gives Consumers A New Lease On Lunch
If only spontaneously ordering and paying for a meal were as easy as using Uber. Then again, if TouchPoint has anything to...
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770AAFES Is Looking To Expand Online Shopping Among Veterans
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) wants to help veterans shop online. AAFES is the U.S. military’s largest retailer and...
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1.0KInstacart And The New Sharing Economy
The American people have a dream, and that dream is apparently to never set foot in a grocery store again. In an...
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640Pinterest’s New “Business Insights” API
Pinterest, saturated with cash after their massive $200 million funding round, is rolling out a enhancement to its API platform that will help businesses understand...
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2.9KHow Ripple Labs Simplifies B2B Payments
What can the Ripple protocol do that basic core banking infrastructure can’t? Move money in real time, efficiently, securely and at a...
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The mPOS Pioneer And Its Future Plans
The world was a different place in 1999-cell phone use was just leaking into the mainstream, Palm Pilots were the next big...
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Richard Branson and Max Levchin’s Latest Payments’ Investment
It’s been a good ten months for Crowdfunding start-up Indiegogo. Following a very successful $40 million Series B funding round in January...
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1.2KMoneyGram’s New U.S.-Mexico Channel
MoneyGram users who wish to transfer money to Mexico can look forward to much faster processing times. The international money transfer and payment...
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1.3KMobile Commerce Security is the Name of the Game
Coupons, rewards, and data oh my! These startups are in the business of keeping customers and other businesses secure while they enjoy...
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33.5KConsumers Pay More When They Pay With Bitcoin
People who wanted to buy really bad stuff probably didn’t mind paying a premium to use bitcoin to do it. But, will...
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1.3KWalmart’s Sales Take A Hit…Again
It is not a good day to be Walmart’s new CEO Doug McMillon. Traffic to Walmart locations nationwide has been on the decline...
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1.7KWhere Are Small Businesses in the Mobile Revolution?
Nearly 70 percent of Americans carry a mobile device. It’s no wonder, then, that within the SMB world, more and more owners...
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3.8KThe Growth of A Giant B2B Platform
Once just an idea in an apartment at the high of the tech bubble and now the largest B2B trading platform in...
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1.0KTwo Former Amazon Execs Want To Help You Stop Overpaying For Home Renovations
Pro.com is something of an interesting novelty among sites that help connect people to the contractors who can build their extensions, remodel...
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755Mobile-Shopping App Boxed Raises $6.5 Million Sets Out To Compete With Amazon Prime
Wholesale enthusiasts will now have a new and possibly cheaper mobile shopping option than Amazon’s $100 per year service Prime. Boxed, the...
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The Alibaba Infographic: Everything You Need to Know
How did Alibaba go from its humble roots as an idea cooked up in Jack Ma's apartment in 1999 to potentially the...
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987MasterCard Teams with Habitat for Humanity in Day Two of SMB Week
Day Two of National Small Business Week has officially begun. Today, MasterCard and Habitat for Humanity will together launch a pilot program...
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2.0KEveryone Wants A Piece of SMB Week
President Obama made National Small Business Week official, even signing a proclamation to do so. “Small businesses represent an ideal at the...
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Walmart-Housed Banks Among Top Fee Collectors
Banks located within Walmart stores are unique in a few regards. They often cater to lower-income patrons more frequently than normal, often...
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1.0KBitcoin Board Welcomes Two New Members
The Bitcoin Foundation has announced the winners of its recent elections to fill two board seats. BTC China CEO Bobby Lee and venture capitalist Brock...
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750P2P Lending Vehicle Prosper’s $70M Funding Round
Living up to its name, peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper has just closed a $70 million funding round led by Francisco Partners, with...
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Meet Dogegoin, Bitcoin’s Weirder Wackier Successor
Bitcoiners-the nebulous pot of investors, miners, tech enthusiasts and libertarians – are a very serious group of people. Dogecoiners, not so much....
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Bitcoin Prices Dive on China Blockade
The price of Bitcoin took a sharp fall over the weekend, dropping from a three-day high of just over $460 per coin...
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Should Banks Expand The Small Business Credit Card Space?
Banks may now feel that there is some breathing room to take advantage of an improving economic climate to broaden their portfolio...
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1.5KLow Savings and Cash Flow Threaten US Microbusinesses, Study Says
A new Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) study, supported by MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, indicates that more than half of US...
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872AmEX And Walmart’s PrePaid Partnership
Though more widely known as a high-end brand, American Express is also reaching out to working class and cash-based consumers by expanding...
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798Mobile Insiders: A VC Goes to Boston
Paul Purcell, co-founder of Continental Advisors, is on the Board of LevelUp, was the lead investor in WePay's recent capital raise and...
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1.6KWhy Israel is the Hot Bed for Payments Start-Ups
Israel, with its emerging tech scene embodied by the entrepreneurs of "Silicon Boulevard" in Tel Aviv, has gotten the world's attention as...
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664First Data Will Release First Quarter 2014 Financial Results
The call will be webcast on the “Investor Relations” section of the First Data website.
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591More Travelers Taking Advantage of Prepaid Cards
According to T.C.Guruprasad, CEO & Managing Director, CentrumDirect Ltd, more travelers are using prepaid cards in order to avoid the high rates....
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Another Week Of Rough Waters For Bitcoin
Deck: Spring just doesn’t seem to have spring just yet for the Bitcoin market, despite the plethora of news around Bitcoin. Innovators...
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1.2KBitcoin-Based ATM And Paycards Now Available
As bitcoin ATM’s spring up around the nation and world that give consumers a real-world location to make cash-to-virtual currency (and vice-versa)...
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1.4KeGifter Teams with GoCoin to Accept Dogecoin and Litecoin Payments
eGifter, the social gifting company, has teamed up with GoCoin so they can accept Dogecoin and Litecoin for purchases. The company believes...
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1.0KBoost Mobile to Waive Check Loading and Money Transfer Fees
Boost Mobile recently announced that the fees for check loading and money transfers will be waived as part of a promotion. The...
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846Electronic Payments on the Rise in Kenya
MasterCard East Africa is reporting that electronic payments are starting to drive and transform the retail market in Kenya. James Wainaina, Vice...
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1.7KWho’s Using Beacon Technology and Why?
From customer service to customer acquisition, merchants are using Beacons powered to enhance the relationships with their customers. Here’s a look at...
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Solving Global Payments Problems with Prepaid
The key to running a successful prepaid program in any market globally is to develop profitable and ethical business practices,something Amit Sethi...
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1.0KRoyal Canadian Mint Looking To Unload MintChip Program
After a big announcement and bold plans for the future of secure payments in Canada, the Royal Canadian Mint has officially decided...
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1.3KWill Louisiana Send Prepaid Packing?
Yet another state, Louisiana, is looking to convert plastic back to paper, at least when it comes to how tax refunds are...
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661Merchants Pile On Deals To Woo Tepid Consumers
There was a time that Americans consumption of staple products – toothpaste, soap, toilet paper – was an area one could always...
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1.2KMasterCard Sees 40% Jump In APMEA Prepaid GDR
MasterCard’s prepaid card business in the Asia/Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) region experienced a 40 percent increase in year-over-year gross dollar...
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1.4KFriday Factoids
There’s so much data influencing the industry today that it can be hard to stay on top of everything. PYMNTS.com’s Friday Factoids...
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Have Canadians Lost Their Love For Debit?
Canadians aren’t so beholden to their debit cards as once was believed. In fact, debit isn’t their preferred form of payment in...
