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920Florida Prisons Delete $11M Worth Of Inmate Music Purchases
Following a switch in contractors that reportedly caused prisoners to lose access to music that they purchased, an inmate in a Florida...
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4.1KTomTom Sells Telematics Unit In Ongoing Push With Google Maps
TomTom, a Dutch navigation and mapping company, has sold its telematics unit to Bridgestone Europe for €910 million ($1,033 billion). Telematics is...
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4.7KCARDFREE Launches Mobile Order-Ahead Service API
CARDFREE, a mobile payment app, has made its order-ahead interface available to merchants to develop through the CARDFREE mobile development kit, according to a...
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10.8KWhat Black Friday Tells Us About The Future Of Retail
The verdict is in. Black Friday was a boon for online retail. Nostalgia still drove consumers to physical stores to snag and...
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7.6KWill Snapchat Get Snapped Up Or Snap Back?
Snapchat, according to recent reports, is having cash flow troubles. The app that got famous for its disappearing messages is looking like it...
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10.0KThe Coming Consolidation Of Marketplaces
The tremendous push toward marketplaces and commerce platforms over the last several years really comes down to capturing a single moment in...
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9.7KBypass CEO: Dining’s Big Digital Disruption
Grubhub’s announcement last week, that it will acquire mobile ordering and payments platform LevelUp, is the most recent reminder that software and technology is eating the...
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8.1KHow Winnie Wants To Build The Portal Parents Need
Winnie – like so many tech innovations – started out as an attempt by its two co-founders to solve their own problems....
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8.0KCan Social Media Make Ordering Takeout Less Frustrating?
Food ordering and delivery have come a long way since reliance on the Yellow Pages and those paper menus stuck into door...
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7.9KIn Praise Of The Selfie And The Commerce It Drives
National Selfie Day has passed into the history books once again. For those us who need a few days to let go...
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7.0KInstagram Expands Shopping To Instagram Stories
Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing social network, announced Tuesday (June 12) that it is expanding shopping beyond Feed to Instagram Stories. In a press...
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10.3KTicketing (Finally) Comes To Google Pay
Since rebranding its various mobile and digital payments efforts under the moniker Google Pay earlier this year, Google has been aggressively introducing new functionality to...
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8.5KWalmart Tests New Mobile Checkout Technology
Walmart announced on Thursday (April 19) that it is testing Check Out With Me, a new service that will speed up checkout...
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8.7KWhat One Coffee Chain Learned After Extensively Testing Order-Ahead
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is new to mobile order-ahead – but not to the market. The chain, now with 1,200...
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8.6KWorldpay: ‘Future-Proofing’ The POS
The next big thing is not often easy to spot. Sometimes, the thing that everyone sees coming fails to actually show up....
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6.8KWithout Wow Factor, Smartphone Sales Expected To Be Flat In 2018
Smartphone growth last year was just 2.7 percent — and while market research firm Garner is projecting that sales of smartphones will...
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8.3KSquare Debuts Instant Deposit In UK
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and Chief Executive of Square announced news on Wednesday (March 21) of the launch of a new Instant...
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8.3KBuilding Bridges For Chinese Consumers To U.S. Commerce
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, 2.97 million Chinese nationals visited the U.S. in 2016 (the last year for which data is available), spending...
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8.7KGoogle Launches Shopping Actions With Target And Walmart
Alphabet’s Google has found a new way to make money off of its search engine, getting a cut of product sales from...
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8.9KHow ‘Mobile-Only’ Audiences Stack Up To ‘Multi-Platform’ Audiences
While consumers are still using multiple platforms — such as desktop and mobile — “mobile-only” users are on the rise. In fact,...
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6.9KMobility Spending Forecast To Hit $1.7 Trillion In 2021
Spending on mobility solutions is expected to increase 3.2 percent this year, with global spending hitting $1.6 trillion, driven by mobility-related hardware,...
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7.8KCloudCraze Being Sold To Salesforce For Undisclosed Sum
CloudCraze, the enterprise eCommerce startup, announced Tuesday (March 13) that it is being acquired by Salesforce, the customer relationship management software company....
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9.2KZelle Reports New Account Openings Of 100K A Day
Zelle, the mobile payment service of U.S. Bank, says that close to 100,000 customers sign up for the payment app on average...
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18.0K2018: The Year Of The Mobile Wallet Reset
It’s time to talk more about what we’re really trying to accomplish for consumers — and for our businesses — and less about the...
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7.1KAirbnb Names Amex’s Chenault To Board
As part of its plan to become a so-called 21st-century company, Airbnb announced Thursday (Jan. 25) in a blog post that it is...
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11.4KFitbit’s Future In Commerce
The Fitbit Ionic, released last fall, was a departure from the Fitbit brand the world had known thus far. The original Fitbit was...
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11.5KIn-App Spending Up 12.3 Percent On Christmas Day
Spending on in-app purchases jumped 12.3 percent on Monday (Dec. 25), with consumers around the globe spending money on in-app purchases, subscriptions...
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12.0KMobile Payments 2.0: Building Better Retail Experiences
Payments has by and large been a growth business for the last half decade or so, and that fact has been mappable...
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9.1KPost-ICO, Texcent Eyes Financial Access For Unbanked
Bitcoin may be the headline grabber of cryptocurrencies. The price soars and then it dives. Billionaires and regulators and even casual observers of...
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9.2KPayPal Launches Virtual NYC Shopping Platform
PayPal, the digital payments company, announced Thursday (Nov. 30) that on Sunday, Dec. 3 it will launch another live, interactive shopping experience,...
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7.6KSamsung’s Next Move Could Be Bendable Galaxy
Samsung may have beat Apple in adding “X” into the name of its smartphone, but that doesn’t mean the Korean technology company...
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7.6KALDI, Venmo Team On Thanksgiving Campaign
ALDI, the grocery retailer, and Venmo, the peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payment app company, announced news on Monday (Nov. 6) of a new...
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12.8KBanking On Social Banking
Ah, those Millennials. Changing the face of payments. How can banks lure them to put thumbs to device and send money –...
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10.9KPayPal Launches Marketplaces And Marketing Solutions
While retail has never been an easy business, the shift from analog to digital retail over the last decade or so has...
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9.0KWhat Tech Will Make Irrelevant For The Class of 2035
Consider, for a moment, the Class of 2035. What’s wrong with these kids of the future? Nothing, actually. Their future is just showing up all...
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11.7KFacebook Messenger, PayPal Partner On P2P
On Friday (Oct. 20), PayPal and Facebook announced news that they are expanding their partnership. Facebook users will now be able to...
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8.7KFacebook Tests APIs For In-App Purchases
Facebook is making changes to the way third parties can monetize their use of the platform, TechCrunch reported. The company is rolling...
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10.0KPayPal’s Market Cap Blasts Past Amex
It’s been a strong year for PayPal, which has seen its shares up 75 percent since the beginning of the year. And,...
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8.8KShopify Defends Citron Research Drubbing
Shopify, the Canada based eCommerce software provider, is out defending its business after short-seller Citron Research slammed the company, sending shares down...
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8.5KFirst Data And CareCloud Launch Breeze To Help Patients Everywhere
CareCloud and First Data are working jointly to make the experience of medical professionals and medical patients that much smoother and more engaging with...
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11.3KBraintree, Eventbrite Make Concerts And Commerce Contextual
Commerce interrupted is a terrible thing. Consumers miss out and merchants miss a sale. The familiar friction points – typing in 16-digit...
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Braintree Powers Cashless Payments For Eventbrite’s Events, Contextually And In Person
In contextual commerce, the play’s the thing. Or the concert. Or the game, for that matter. In an announcement via blog post...
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12.5KConsumers Love The Sharing Economy, But Are Ambivalent About eCommerce
Most Americans think ride-sharing — à la services like Lyft and Uber — has been good for the U.S. Online shopping, on...
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16.5KVisa Payments, (Truly) Mobile With Fitbit’s Ionic Smartwatch
Fitbit is debuting its Ionic watch – enabled for Visa payments. And, as noted Monday by the two companies, and as the...
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9.8KBirkenstock USA CEO Tells Shop Owners Not To Sell Its Products On Amazon
Birkenstock USA Chief Executive Officer David Kahan has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to having his company’s products...
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Amazon Interjects Social Through Amazon Spark
Amazon recently announced the launch of Amazon Spark, a service designed to improve customers’ ability to find new products. According to a...
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9.9KFacebook’s New Revenue Strategy: Messenger Ads
Even an infinite scroll only generates a finite number of ad clicks. Facebook has just about maximized the amount of money it...
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6.7KToday in Data: Uber in Danger Zone?
2017 has not been the best of the best for ride-hailing company Uber. From its CEO stepping down to employees filing and...
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10.4KVisa Rolls Out Free Person-to-Person Digital Payments In Kenya
Visa, the credit card company, is enabling customers of Kenya Visa-affiliated banks to send online payments without paying transactions fees. According to...
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6.8KXiaomi Shipped 23.16M Smartphones In Second Quarter
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone company, has reportedly started providing mobile phone shipments for Q2 2017 after halting the practice last year. According...
