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Bitcoin’s Fall Forecast
Bitcoin’s Fall Forecast
September 06, 2016  |  Bitcoin

This week sees a social media platform for non-bitcoin users in creation, but the platform wants to stimulate bitcoin use, strangely enough. A complicated app...

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Accepting Any Payment, From Anywhere, Across The Universe?
Accepting Any Payment, From Anywhere, Across The Universe?
September 06, 2016  |  Mobile Payments

The ability to make and accept payments for purchases is increasingly universal, and the future of mPOS may lie in universal solutions that can accept...

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Four Big Power Shifts For Commerce And Payments
Four Big Power Shifts For Commerce And Payments
September 06, 2016  |  Payment Methods

For most of the last decade, we’ve been talking about the same old, same old. Mobile payments will be how we pay. Online retailers will...

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HP Enterprise Software Sale A Guessing Game
HP Enterprise Software Sale A Guessing Game
September 06, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is looking to separate out its software unit, reports late last week said. Reports by The Wall Street Journal, and circulated by...

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The Comments Are In: The CFPB And Arbitration
The Comments Are In: The CFPB And Arbitration
September 06, 2016  |  CFPB

With the wide range of highly controversial subjects that fall under the CFPB’s purview, arbitration may come as something of a surprise. Unlike payday lending...

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Accountants Awaiting Corporate Expansion Boom
Accountants Awaiting Corporate Expansion Boom
September 06, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Professional accountants that also serve as executives in their own corporations have high hopes for their businesses. Reports late last week said a new research...

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Retail’s Summer Rundown
Retail’s Summer Rundown
September 05, 2016  |  Retail

The summer is over, or as over as it needs to be for most of us to count it. Sure, there are a few “official”...

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Trade Groups Want Alibaba To Do More About Counterfeiting
Trade Groups Want Alibaba To Do More About Counterfeiting
September 05, 2016  |  Retail

Despite recent efforts, it seems as though Alibaba‘s counterfeiting controversy is determined to stick around. As of August, a variety of international trade groups have...

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Online Tax Bill Draws Retailer Support
Online Tax Bill Draws Retailer Support
September 05, 2016  |  Regulation

After some years of fighting any and all attempts on taxation, digital merchants seem to have made their peace with paying taxes and are starting...

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