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Merchant Innovation
Amazon Bulks Up Its Fulfillment Centers With 6K Hires
May 27, 2015

An Amazon commitment announced yesterday (May 26) confirmed the eCommerce company’s plans to expand its physical presence, as Amazon will hire more than 6,000 full-time employees across the U.S. at its fulfillment centers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

Google Targets 20 Million Indian SMBs On The Net by 2017
May 27, 2015

Google wants to get as many as 20 million small and medium businesses in India onto the Internet over the next few years. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

MasterCard’s “FastTrack” To Helping FinTech Startups
May 27, 2015

Payment tech entrepreneurs, start (up) your engines and head for New York. 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...

IRS Breach Exposes Household Data
May 27, 2015

The data from tax returns for roughly 100,000 households was stolen by cybercriminals who used the IRS’s online services to hack the database, the IRS said yesterday (May 26). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

Despite Reports, Desktop Internet Is Alive And Well
May 27, 2015

Though the imminent death of desktop computing at the hands of a newly ascendent mobile has become a popular story over the last few years, as it turns out, those reports may be a little exaggerated. Desktop isn’t dying – in fact, when it comes to...

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Debit Network’s Second Act
May 27, 2015

As the payment industry has evolved over the last several years, debit payment networks have likewise changed shape, moving away from being simply PIN-based regional systems into more fluid and expansive networks, growing to incorporate new uses for elements such as tokenization. In a discussion...

Fraud Prevention: What’s A Merchant To Do?
May 27, 2015

To call an account takeover an “inconvenience” would be an understatement. But the fact is, the eCommerce industry is faced with the challenge of balancing the prevention of that very serious and potentially greatly harmful crime with something that is simply a matter of convenience:...

B2B Payments
Salesforce Goes After Rival SAP
May 26, 2015

Amid rumblings of a merger or acquisition, Salesforce delivered a strong first quarter performance when it posted its 2015 Q1 earnings results last week. Beating analyst expectations, the software giant reported earnings per share of 16 cents for the quarter ending April 30, 2 cents...

B2B Payments
Global Spotlight: Australia
May 26, 2015

Each week, PYMNTS will turn the B2B spotlight on a single nation. This week we take a look at Australia, whose emerging alternative finance industry is gaining speed fast. Digital payments are now the norm in certain sectors and businesses are open to non-bank payment...