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SMBs Down On US Presidential Candidates
March 31, 2016

As the political process lurches across the presidential primaries, a new survey by OnDeck, the online lending company, found that small business owners are less than optimistic about their November choices — no matter who winds up carrying the nominations and banners of their respective parties. Get...

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VCs To Hunt In Barren Fields?
March 31, 2016

Money is pouring into the venture capital space like there’s no tomorrow, but that may be the giddiness of a wild ride before motion sickness sets in. Here’s why dry powder may not get the spark that everyone expects and what that means for payments...

Braintree Launches Auth
March 31, 2016

One plus One equals One Hundred. That’s the idea behind Braintree’s new Auth platform which launches today.  Juan Benitez, Braintree’s GM and CTO, tells MPD CEO Karen Webster that since Auth makes it easy for Braintree merchants to more easily integrate with Braintree partners, merchants...

Square Takes On Stripe
March 31, 2016

Square’s announcement yesterday that it would begin to process transactions for online merchants raised one big question: Why? Doing it put it square in competition with PayPal, Braintree, BlueSnap and Stripe — as well as the many other players whose platforms offer a turnkey solution...

Microsoft Gets Enough Torque To Top Apps In The Cloud
March 31, 2016

Cloud-based app Slack showed heady growth through the latter half of last year, but Microsoft’s Office 365 still remained on top as the most popular cloud app geared toward businesses at 2015’s end. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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Everything Has A Price — Even Employee Work Passwords
March 31, 2016

Maybe employees aren’t as loyal when it comes to their work passwords as we’d like to believe. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our...

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Payroll Numbers Meet Expectations
March 31, 2016

The hiring trend in the private sector managed to keep chugging on for a bit, showing in March that strength in the United States job market has not been derailed by slowdowns elsewhere across the globe. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...

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Fraudsters Targeted 73 Percent Of US Companies Last Year
March 31, 2016

Fraudsters may have their sights set on American companies. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form,...

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FTC Halts Payday Loan Debt Scheme
March 31, 2016

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday (March 30) that it requested, along with the Illinois attorney general, and was granted, a request from a federal court to halt the operations of a Chicago area operation that used threatening tactics to collect on debts that were not owed to the...