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2.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsCitizens Bank To Offer Consumer Financing For Microsoft’s Xbox All Access
Citizens Bank is partnering with Microsoft’s Xbox All Access program to offer 0 percent APR financing and integrated point of sale (POS)...
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1.6KInnovationGoogle’s Plan To Make Its Assistant Ubiquitous And Invisible
The cool weather was slow to show up in some parts of the U.S. this year (although the pumpkin spice-flavored goods showed...
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3.7KFacebookFacebook’s Oculus To Integrate With Social Platform
Facebook has revealed new links between its virtual reality (VR) headset and the company’s core app. “Starting late this year, we will...
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2.1KRetailGaming Breaks New Ground In Commerce And Payments
The holidays are approaching, and that means a big retail boost for video games during that all-important shopping season. Indeed, video games...
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3.4KSubscription CommerceHow Butcherbox Raises The ‘Steaks’ For Fighting Fraud
Subscription-based businesses have become all but ubiquitous over the past few years. Customers can have anything from razors to clothing to toys...
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2.0KAppleNewly Launched Apple Arcade Offers 100 Monthly Games For $4.99
Apple has officially released the Apple arcade, a gaming subscription service that costs $4.99 a month, according to a report by CNBC....
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2.1KRetailHow Video Games Are Helping Retailers Grow And Innovate
Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. Video games have...
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3.7KCommerce ConnectedConnected Tech Gives Sports Venues An All Star Opportunity To Fill The Stands
Consumers are set to spend $23 billion buying mobile tickets for sports and gaming events by 2023. Sports brands are thus looking...
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2.5KAppleApple To Offer Gaming Subscriptions For $4.99/Month
The Apple watch site, 9to5Mac. has reported that the tech giant is set to charge $4.99 per month for its Apple Arcade...
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3.2KMerchant InnovationSubscriptions Change How Online Gaming Plays To Win
Video games have changed a lot since the early days of home gaming in the late 1970s and early ’80s. The graphics...
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3.5KRetailSubscription Box Company Loot Crate Files For Chapter 11
The Los Angeles-based Loot Crate, a subscription box startup offering “geek and gamer products,” filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to cash...
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3.2KRetailVideo Games Provide Fresh Fuel For Retail Innovation
The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. That includes stores, and the latest...
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4.2KAutomated RetailGiving Arcade Gaming A Level-Up
It’s pretty much "game over" for those old-school, fixed-price arcade video games. Updating self-service brick-and-mortar gaming means offering consoles featuring multiple games...
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3.3KAutomated RetailDigital Payments Give Video Arcade Games A 21st Century Reboot
Retailers are updating their sales models with new takes on vending machines and delivery approaches. Some of the latest initiatives include grocery...
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4.9KDigital PaymentsRazer Gaming Company Teams With Visa For Online Payments
Razer, a gaming hardware company based in Singapore, has partnered with Visa to offer a prepaid card that will let the company’s...
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6.4KSecurity & FraudBNY Mellon’s AI Fix For Reducing False-Positives
With 83 percent of consumers in the U.S. owning laptops and 91 percent owning mobile devices, there’s never been greater opportunity for...
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3.4KGoogleGoogle I/O To Highlight Google Assistant, New Smart Speaker
It’s only spring, but in a digital commerce and payments sense, it’s also the early version of Christmas. Google’s latest I/O conference...
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2.9KAuthenticationDeep Dive: Identity Verification In Online Gaming And Gambling
Online games are growing in popularity, and regulators are starting to worry as more players are using real-world currency for in-game purchases....
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3.1KToday In DataTaking Digital Authentication To The Next Level
Gaming companies are taking digital authentication to the next level. Smart agents are rising to bring better customer service and fraud prevention to financial institutions (FI)...
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4.8KAppleApple Expected To Invest $500M+ In Video Games
Apple, aiming to move beyond the iPhone to drive sales, is reportedly spending millions of dollars to acquire new video games to...
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5.7KAppleApple Bets On Streamed Content, Subscription Retail
Apple had a product and services pageant in California on Monday (March 25), and while you have no doubt heard about the...
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4.4KPayment MethodsTwitch Removes Support For Crypto Payments
Twitch, the streaming gaming platform, has reportedly dumped cryptocurrency as a payment method. According to a report in CCN, citing a Reddit...
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6.0KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: The Siren Song of Enhanced Efficiency
Shopping in the early 20th century was not a terribly efficient experience for the consumer. Buying meat was one market, seafood another,...
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4.2KGoogleGoogle Launches Gaming Service
Google has launched its cloud gaming platform, a service called Stadia, with the introduction coming as payments is commanding a bigger role...
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7.2KGoogleGoogle Set To Announce Game Streaming Service
Google is getting ready to announce its own game streaming service. The tech giant will show off its plans to enter the...
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4.8KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Overstock Invests In Blockchain Banking Co; Ripple Gets Into Blockchain Gaming
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) announced it is integrating CipherTrace’s Compliance Monitoring product to “protect consumers, investors and business partners.” The...
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5.6KPartnerships / AcquisitionsInComm Enters Lottery Industry With Linq3 Buy
Payments technology company InComm has acquired Linq3 Technologies with the purpose of entering the lottery industry, the company announced on Tuesday (March...
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9.0KFraud AttackRed Envelopes, Fortnite And The Rise Of Micro Money Laundering
One of the main differences between a successful criminal and a wanna-be is that the smart one knows how to hide (often...
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15.7KAppleApple Mulls Subscription Service For Gaming
Apple could be starting a subscription service for gaming, according to reports. It would operate like a streaming service, where users pay...
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3.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Blockchain Phone ‘Finney’ To Debut In Dec; AriseBank CEO Handed 120-Year Prison Sentence Over $4M Crypto Scam
Blockchain startup AriseBank’s CEO is facing up to 120 years in prison for misleading investors in a crypto scam. According to The...
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3.9KEarningsTencent’s Profit Drop Drags On Chinese, Tech Stocks
There’s a saying that Wall Street does not like surprises — and certainly not earnings surprises … at least not to the downside....
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4.0KLegalOpening Bets: MGM Deals Foreshadow New Gambling Culture
Not quite three months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state bans on sports betting, MGM Resorts International has signed deals...
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3.4KSecurity & FraudKaspersky: Gaming, Crypto Targeted In DDoS Attacks
A new report from Kaspersky Lab shows an increase in botnet-assisted DDoS attacks, including the recurrence of old vulnerabilities and the rise in...
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3.9KBlockchainBest Meta Explores Blockchain As A Crowdfunding Mechanism
Money can’t buy happiness, but blockchain can buy fame, and that’s kind of the same thing, right? Okay, maybe not exactly, but...
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8.4KFacebookFacebook Live Now Offers Tipping
Video gameplay streamers who use Facebook Live are getting a new way to make money, with Facebook adding the capability for users...
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10.5KeCommerceEA, Star Wars And The Force (Of Payments) That Wasn’t With Them
If EA Games — the third- or fourth-largest video game company in the world — had set out to write a step-by-step guide on...
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2.5KInvestmentsRazer Invests In Asian Online Payment Firm To Boost Virtual Currency For Gamers
Gaming company Razer has invested nearly $20 million into Malaysia-based online payment firm MOL Global. According to TechCrunch, this move is part of...
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7.7KNewsNiantic Charges Pokémon GO Sponsors Up To 50 Cents Per Visitor
Pokémon GO maker Niantic has revealed that sponsored locations like McDonald’s Japan pay up to $0.50 for each visitor attracted to the...
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3.2KMobile CommerceAmazon To Host eSports Tournament
Amazon continues to bank on the popularity of eSports. The online retail giant recently announced that it will hold its first-ever eSports...
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PayPal Survey Says Americans Game On Smartphones, Prefer Easy Payment Methods
The results are in: PayPal just released its Digital Goods Economy Survey. The survey analyzed habits, behaviors and consumer trends in the...
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4.0KInvestmentsReal-Time Sports Betting Startup Gets Funded
WinView, a two-screen TV synchronization platform, announced the close of its Series A funding round with $3.4 million in equity financing on Tuesday...
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Is Amazon Going Prime-Only On Select Videos, Games?
While Amazon’s push to expand Prime membership shows no signs of slowing, it initially appeared that the latest move in that regard...
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Fraudsters Gaming Gamers (Out Of Money)
Pretty much anyone who interacts online is a potential target of fraud — and that includes gamers. Kaspersky Lab Daily has taken a...
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The Digital Expansion Of Analog Gaming
With news that a version of "Monopoly" is ditching cash in favor of digital payments, is the end of traditional board games...
- Controversial
Gamers Vs. Hackers — For The Holidays
Microsoft and Sony could be in for a bummer of a Christmas if a hacking collective makes good on its promise to...
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2.0KInternationalHow Social Media Bridges China’s Lending Gap
At least one Chinese company has paired social media with lending. Tencent evaluated 50 million Chinese consumers using what might be thought...
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Green Man Gaming And The New Marketplace
In 1985, video games were a $100 million industry; that was after the great console crash that started in 1983 and drained...
