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Israeli PayTech Firms Team With Visa’s Tel Aviv Innovation Center
Israeli PayTech Firms Team With Visa’s Tel Aviv Innovation Center
September 04, 2019  |  Innovation

Tel Aviv’s new Visa Innovation Center is teaming up with three Israeli payment technology startups to offer more payment solutions, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept....

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Alibaba Said To Be To Nearing $2B Deal For NetEase Kaola
Alibaba Said To Be To Nearing $2B Deal For NetEase Kaola
September 04, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Chinese eCommerce marketplace Alibaba is reportedly close to wrapping up its $2 billion acquisition of NetEase’s cross-border retail platform Kaola, according to a report in TechCrunch on Wednesday...

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Southwest Passengers Can Use Apple Pay For Flights
Southwest Passengers Can Use Apple Pay For Flights
September 04, 2019  |  Digital Payments

Travel commerce and payments firm CellPoint Digital and the airline-owned payment network UATP are in a deal with Southwest to let customers buy tickets and...

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Digital Banking Veterans Join i2c Leadership Team
Digital Banking Veterans Join i2c Leadership Team
September 04, 2019  |  Personnel

Global digital banking firm i2c Inc. is rounding out its leadership team to include four payments industry veterans, the company said in a press release...

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Rival Claims Google Funnels User Info To Advertisers
Rival Claims Google Funnels User Info To Advertisers
September 04, 2019  |  Google

Google is being accused of stealthily handing personal data to advertisers by using hidden web pages, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday (Sept. 4).  Get the...

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Making Marketplaces For Experiences
Making Marketplaces For Experiences
September 04, 2019  |  Retail

Millennials, the conventional wisdom goes, are far more into experiences than they are into buying things. Some of that, according to Joshua Becker, who authors the...

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Porsche Debuts Taycan Electric Sports Car
Porsche Debuts Taycan Electric Sports Car
September 04, 2019  |  Retail

To debut its inaugural all-electric sports car, the Taycan, Porsche selected a Chinese wind farm, a German solar site and Niagara Falls. The unveiling was...

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From Beer To Snack Bars: Using eCommerce To Upcycle Food
From Beer To Snack Bars: Using eCommerce To Upcycle Food
September 04, 2019  |  Retail

When ReGrained Chief Grain Officer (CEO) and Co-Founder Daniel Kurzrock began brewing his own beer, he found that he was wasting food. He was using about a...

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Driving Payments Innovation With Invisibility
Driving Payments Innovation With Invisibility
September 04, 2019  |  Today In Data

Innovators in payments and commerce are making what was once visible, invisible – and changing the path to purchase in the process. In compliance news, consumers are flocking...

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