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Amazon Pushes Apps With Coin Giveaway
May 23, 2014

Amazon wants to get consumers downloading apps from their store, and they are not above paying them to do it. The massive e-retailers is giving away 1000 ($10 worth) Amazon coins to any customer who downloads five free apps. Get the Full Story Complete the...

Mobile Commerce
DoorDash Raises $17.3 M To Expand On-Demand Delivery
May 23, 2014

DoorDash may not be the only on-demand food delivery start-up out there, but it may be the one that dreams biggest with its plans to move beyond food. Those dreams now have a new underwriter in Sequoia Capital, who just led a $17.3 million Series A...

Mobile Commerce
Uber Approaching $12 Billion Valuation
May 23, 2014

The little ride-sharing company that changed the face of transportation, Uber, is reportedly in talks to begin a monstrous $500 million dollar funding round – which, if successful, would place the company’s valuation at right around $12 billion. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Alternative Finances
Barclaycard And Flubit’s Digital Marketplace Team-Up
May 23, 2014

Barclaycard and London-based tech startup Flubit have teamed up to create a digital marketplace to help give smaller retailers greater access to cardholders. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...

Merchant Innovation
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 25
May 23, 2014

Could bitcoin be settling down? Will the Fed regulate it? Do consumers pay more when they use it? Oh, where can bitcoin now be used that might surprise you? Get caught up in this weeks, bitcoin news.

Merchant Innovation
Yoyo Raises $5m In Seed Funds To Bring mPay To the People
May 23, 2014

London-based mobile-payments and loyalty app Yoyo has scored $5 million in seed funding. Yoyo aims to create a better customer experience by speeding up in-store transactions through combining payment and loyalty via one easy scan. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Mobile Commerce
Visa to Replace Signatures with PIN In New Zealand
May 23, 2014

For Visa customers in New Zealand, swipe and sign credit cards are soon to be a thing of the past. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

Mobile Commerce
Three U.S. States To Probe eBay Cyberattack In Response To Citizen Complaints
May 23, 2014

It has been a long week at eBay. Connecticut, Florida and Illinois are initiating  joint probe over the circumstances that lead eBay to announce earlier this week that customers needed to change their passwords due to an unspecified security risk that was detected in the...

B2B Payments
WEX Has Canada In Its Cards
May 23, 2014

Fleet card provider WEX plans to take it fleet card to Canada, as more of its U.S. customers have operations in both countries. WEX has grand global growth plans overall, fueled by expanding relations with such fuel companies as ExxonMobil.