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Facebook Expands Payments Options And Its Obsession With Snapchat
Facebook Expands Payments Options And Its Obsession With Snapchat
September 19, 2016  |  Social Commerce

Facebook has been changing its approach to payments. It is leveraging its social media position to attract some of the P2P and mobile market. The...

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Payments Stocks Move On (Mostly) Scant News
Payments Stocks Move On (Mostly) Scant News
September 19, 2016  |  Stock Index

A bit more balance showed through this past week in the PYMNTS Stock Index, as advancing issues and declining names seemed about evenly matched, at...

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Lines Are Shorter For iPhone 7 Launch — But That May Have To Do With Pre-Orders
Lines Are Shorter For iPhone 7 Launch — But That May Have To Do With...
September 19, 2016  |  Apple

Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus started selling at stores around the world on Friday (Sept. 16), but it’s not clear if the throngs...

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ViSenze Completes $10.5 Million Round Of Venture Funding
ViSenze Completes $10.5 Million Round Of Venture Funding
September 19, 2016  |  Investments

ViSenze, the artificial intelligence company that develops visual technology for eCommerce and digital businesses, announced on Friday (Sept. 16) it has completed a $10.5 million Series...

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Facebook Users Can Now Purchase Some Fandango Movie Tickets From Their News Feed
Facebook Users Can Now Purchase Some Fandango Movie Tickets From Their News Feed
September 19, 2016  |  Social Commerce

Fandango, the online seller of movie tickets, is expanding the ways in which consumers purchase movie tickets, launching the ability to do it via Facebook....

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Fraud, In A Factory Setting
Fraud, In A Factory Setting
September 19, 2016  |  Security & Fraud

You’ve seen the pictures: rows of workers, in what could be termed “fraud factories,” armed with laptops, launching unsophisticated attacks on merchants. In the latest...

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Global Payments Cybersecurity Task Force A Go
Global Payments Cybersecurity Task Force A Go
September 19, 2016  |  B2B Payments

With the pressure of cybercrime mounting in the financial services space, several central banks of the globe are joining together to figure out a strategy....

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One Year In, Removing The Masking Tape From EMV
One Year In, Removing The Masking Tape From EMV
September 19, 2016  |  PYMNTS Topic TBD

Lapping its one-year anniversary, EMV adoption in the U.S. has had its share of triumph and challenges that still remain. In the latest installment of...

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