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Microsoft Signs Deal With Gap For Core Computing

Microsoft Signs Deal With Gap For Core Computing
Microsoft Signs Deal With Gap For Core Computing
November 09, 2018  |  Merchant Innovation

To provide another retailer with its core computing needs, Microsoft has reportedly inked a five-year deal with Gap. The size of the deal was not...

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ICC: Flipkart, Amazon Not Abusing Competitive Position
ICC: Flipkart, Amazon Not Abusing Competitive Position
November 09, 2018  |  ANTITRUST

Walmart’s Flipkart, and Amazon, have not broken competitive rules in India through their respective efforts to promote certain brands or select certain merchants to sell...

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Veterans Face New SMB Financing Challenges
Veterans Face New SMB Financing Challenges
November 09, 2018  |  SMBs

It stands as one of the most famous economic programs in U.S. history, and it helped created modern middle-class consumer culture — the same culture...

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Apple Supplier Stocks Fall Amid iPhone Uncertainty
Apple Supplier Stocks Fall Amid iPhone Uncertainty
November 09, 2018  |  Apple

As Skyworks Solutions delivered weak fourth-quarter guidance for softness in high-end smartphones and Bank Of America Merrill Lynch downgraded the company amid iPhone uncertainty, suppliers of...

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MoneyGram Shares Slammed On Revenue Slide Amid Compliance Efforts
MoneyGram Shares Slammed On Revenue Slide Amid Compliance Efforts
November 09, 2018  |  Earnings

MoneyGram shares sank as much as 25 percent during intraday trading on Friday (November 9), as the company reported results that reflected the impact of...

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Facebook’s Sizzly, Fizzly Week
Facebook’s Sizzly, Fizzly Week
November 09, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Facebook has been a firm with its share of troubles lately. Earnings weren’t quite what investors were looking for, its usership base in the U.S. and...

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Boatsetter’s Slow Sail Into The Sharing Economy
Boatsetter’s Slow Sail Into The Sharing Economy
November 09, 2018  |  Retail

Two-party marketplaces are complicated, and three-party marketplace are so complicated as to be almost unheard of. And yet, that is exactly what Florida-based Boatsetter has...

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Amex Obtains License For Chinese Card Service
Amex Obtains License For Chinese Card Service
November 09, 2018  |  International

Before a summit between China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump, American Express has received the go-ahead to open up card-clearing services in...

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Retail Pulse: Glossier Goes Experiential In NYC; Holiday Retail Sales May Top $1 Trillion
Retail Pulse: Glossier Goes Experiential In NYC; Holiday Retail Sales May Top $1 Trillion
November 09, 2018  |  Retail

It’s not uncommon for brands to open permanent stores after experimenting with pop-ups, but Glossier is taking an innovative payments approach to its new flagship...

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