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Amex Acquires InAuth

Amex Acquires InAuth
Amex Acquires InAuth
December 07, 2016  |  Cybersecurity

The American Express that exists today (i.e., the one that just acquired InAuth) would look pretty foreign to its first employees of 166 years ago...

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Taking The Pain Out Of Marketplace Payments
Taking The Pain Out Of Marketplace Payments
December 07, 2016  |  Matchmakers

No pain — and lots of gain. In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In, Payoneer CEO Scott Galit walked listeners through Payoneer’s decade-plus...

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Attending To Unattended Retail
Attending To Unattended Retail
December 07, 2016  |  Unattended Retail

No more knobs. No more stale candy. The unattended retail experience is one that has evolved beyond the silvery machines of your youth to provide what...

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Store Front Business Index: Will Main Street USA Profit From A Trump Win?
Store Front Business Index: Will Main Street USA Profit From A Trump Win?
December 06, 2016  |  SMBs

As President-Elect Trump has driven stock markets to brand new highs, Main Street might have to wait a bit to see the value. While Store...

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First, Data: Delving Into The Real Deal Of Transactions
First, Data: Delving Into The Real Deal Of Transactions
December 06, 2016  |  Today In Data

Turkey Day has come and gone. Cyber Monday is a memory. Consumer spending was robust through the holiday, as our latest Data Drivers dissects, with Rishi Chhabra,...

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Retailing And eCommerce, Back To The Future
Retailing And eCommerce, Back To The Future
December 05, 2016  |  News

Care to hazard a guess as to where eCommerce and retail may be headed in the year ahead? In our latest Topic TBD installment, Poynt...

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Wayfair: Building For What’s Next In Commerce
Wayfair: Building For What’s Next In Commerce
December 05, 2016  |  Retail

Selling furniture online isn’t easy work — though the team at Boston-based Wayfair might make it appear otherwise. The firm has just come off another quarterly...

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Surprise Outcomes Edition: Cybercrime, Student Loans And CAN Capital
Surprise Outcomes Edition: Cybercrime, Student Loans And CAN Capital
December 05, 2016  |  Today In Data

On this day 83 years ago, the United States government pulled the plug on one of the great failures of social engineering in American history...

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