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Commentary
Is Amazon Fire A Threat to Payments?
June 30, 2014

Jeff Bezos sent people invited to the launch of the Fire phone a children’s book about a man who painted his house purple so he could distinguish it from all of the other white houses on his street. The analog he was making was that...

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PayPal Has New Use For Your Fingerprints
June 30, 2014

Last week PayPal announced on its blog that it now offers fingerprint authentication for the Samsung Galaxy S Tab. Customers can now use their fingerprint to log in and pay at millions of merchants that accept PayPal on mobile and in stores, wrote PayPal Global...

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Google: Android Getting Better Mobile Payments And Commerce Features
June 30, 2014

Last week, Google had a plethora of announcements at its annual Google I/O developer conference about “What’s Next.” Included on that list were ideas for better options for mobile payments, banking and commerce. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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SnagaStool Thinks It Can Monetize The Bar stool (And Become The OpenTable Of Drinking)
June 27, 2014

Yesterday a curious phenomenon swept the nation--a sudden and overwhelming desire to be in a bar of the middle of the work day watching international soccer. In cities across the nation bars suddenly had more patrons than stools, leaving thousands of thirsty customers standing and...

Mobile Commerce
Bitcoin Tracker | Week 30
June 27, 2014

Intuit is “PayWithCoin” enabling small biz and the CFPB is giving this crypto currency a look-see. One family is taking its vacation this summer to places that only accept BTC but you’ll need cold hard cash to buy any of the stash seized by the...

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Foursquare To Charge Business For Some Data Access
June 27, 2014

Like many social networking services, Foursquare has historically had a monetization problem—they provide a service, the service is definitely value but the service doesn’t directly generate any money. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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PayPal App Coming To Android Wear
June 27, 2014

PayPal announced earlier this week that its PayPal App would soon be available on Android Wear in the Beta Community. PayPal Senior Software Engineer Richard Mercille wrote a contribution piece on the company blog, and said that with Google’s introduction of its Android Wear™ OS,...

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Unlocking Omnichannel With a Single Data Stream
June 26, 2014

Omnichannel is a riddle wrapped in an enigma, enabling multiple payment methods and offers across devices and channels with one single view of the customer. Solving that riddle can only mean one thing: having a single data stream that follows that consumer. MPD CEO Karen...

How mPOS Hardware Rules SMBs
June 26, 2014

There’s no question that U.S. merchants, even the smaller ones, are moving to mobile. SMBs in particular are increasingly investing in mPOS solutions not just as card acceptance devices, but also as solutions that help to better run their businesses. When it comes to what...