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Grocery Roundup: Instacart Beefs Up Delivery As SMBs Struggle To Hire
Grocery Roundup: Instacart Beefs Up Delivery As SMBs Struggle To Hire
June 10, 2021  |  Retail

Consumers can now order meat directly from Instacart— no in-store picking necessary. The online grocer has added direct-to-consumer (D2C) online meat shop ButcherBox to its...

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Mastercard Projects 78 Pct Pop In Back-To-School Apparel Sales
Mastercard Projects 78 Pct Pop In Back-To-School Apparel Sales
June 10, 2021  |  Retail

U.S. retail sales are anticipated to be up 5.5 percent outside of automotive and gasoline over the important back-to-school shopping season of July 15 to...

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PYMNTS Equifax Survey Report: 79 percent Of Businesses Will Forgo Some Growth For Increased Security
PYMNTS Equifax Survey Report: 79 percent Of Businesses Will Forgo Some Growth For Increased Security
June 10, 2021  |  Digital Identity

PYMNTS June 2021 report, The Next Wave: Business Adoption Of Digital Identity Protection, an Equifax collaboration, opens on a sobering statistic: 36 billion records were...

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Bank Of America Launches Pay To Card To Advance B2C Payments
Bank Of America Launches Pay To Card To Advance B2C Payments
June 10, 2021  |  Faster Payments

Bank of America (BoA) is expanding its digital business-to-consumer (B2C) payment offerings with its Pay to Card solution, according to a press release. Get the...

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United Goes From Airline To Angel With Launch Of New VC Fund
United Goes From Airline To Angel With Launch Of New VC Fund
June 10, 2021  |  Innovation

Call it, perhaps, a runway to help the connected economy take flight. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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Grubhub Stockholders Approve Acquisition By Just Eat Takeaway
Grubhub Stockholders Approve Acquisition By Just Eat Takeaway
June 10, 2021  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Grubhub’s stockholders approved the proposed acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway.com on Thursday (June 10), according to a press release. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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RealPage Intros Identity Fraud Prevention Tool For Real Estate Industry
RealPage Intros Identity Fraud Prevention Tool For Real Estate Industry
June 10, 2021  |  Real Estate

RealPage has launched Identity Verification, which it says is the real estate industry’s first comprehensive tool for preventing fraud at multiple touchpoints across the leasing...

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EU Could Hit Amazon With $425 Million Fine For Privacy Violation
EU Could Hit Amazon With $425 Million Fine For Privacy Violation
June 10, 2021  |  Legal

Amazon could be facing more than $425 million in penalties for violating the European Union’s privacy law, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday (June...

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Reading The BNPL Scorecard To See Who’s Running Ahead
Reading The BNPL Scorecard To See Who’s Running Ahead
June 10, 2021  |  Buy Now Pay Later

The race to be the top buy now, pay later (BNPL) player heated up once again Thursday (June 10) as European FinTech and BNPL powerhouse...

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