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Tech Taking The Bite Out of Student Loan Debt: One Employer Benefit Plan At A Time

Tech Taking The Bite Out of Student Loan Debt: One Employer Benefit Plan At A Time
Tech Taking The Bite Out of Student Loan Debt: One Employer Benefit Plan At A...
August 20, 2019  |  Debt

The cost of higher education lingers, stymieing borrowers (and their parents) as they navigate their financial lives.  Employees job hop, chasing higher paychecks to pay...

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Why AP Management For SMBs Is More Than Making A Payment
Why AP Management For SMBs Is More Than Making A Payment
August 20, 2019  |  Accounts Payable

Middle market companies need help navigating the complexities of AP management – especially when it comes to cross border, cross currency payments. Tipalti CEO Chen...

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Kids’ Eyeglasses Get A Mobile And 3D Makeover
Kids’ Eyeglasses Get A Mobile And 3D Makeover
August 20, 2019  |  Innovation

It’s a story commonly heard from children – and a story that, in this case, led to a fresh idea for subscription commerce. As told...

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Amazon Presses The Gas On Voice-Assisted Cars
Amazon Presses The Gas On Voice-Assisted Cars
August 20, 2019  |  Amazon

Among the biggest battlegrounds in retail is not only what amounts to a moving target — but a race involving the human voice. Moreover, now...

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 LendingClub CEO On Interest Rates, Credit … And The Bank Charter Quest 
 LendingClub CEO On Interest Rates, Credit … And The Bank Charter Quest 
August 19, 2019  |  Consumer Finance

Interest rates are volatile, fears of a recession are spiking, central banks are cutting rates. In an interview with Karen Webster, LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn...

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Why It’s Time To Break Mobile Commerce Stereotypes
Why It’s Time To Break Mobile Commerce Stereotypes
August 19, 2019  |  Mobile

Don’t count out older consumers when it comes to mobile commerce – that’s one trend going forward into the 2020s that is important as the...

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Happy 15th IPO Anniversary Google!
Happy 15th IPO Anniversary Google!
August 19, 2019  |  Google

I wouldn’t be buying Google stock, and I don’t know anyone who would — Silicon ValleyEntrepreneur, Inventor and Futurist Jeffery Kaplan on Google’s 2004 IPO  Get...

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Visa On eCommerce’s First Quarter Century — And Next Inflection Point
Visa On eCommerce’s First Quarter Century — And Next Inflection Point
August 16, 2019  |  eCommerce

On August 11th, 1994, Philadelphia’s Phil Brandenburger purchased a Sting album (“Ten Summoner’s Tales,” to be specific) with a Visa card, and changed the world...

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