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Tencent, UnionPay Agree On QR Code Standard To Streamline Mobile Payments

Tencent, UnionPay Agree On QR Code Standard To Streamline Mobile Payments
Tencent, UnionPay Agree On QR Code Standard To Streamline Mobile Payments
January 08, 2020  |  Mobile Payments

Caixin Global reports that Chinese mobile transaction company Tencent has decided to combine part of its authentication software with government-owned rival UnionPay. This collaboration will...

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Taking The Adventure Out Of Paying For Adventure Travel
Taking The Adventure Out Of Paying For Adventure Travel
January 08, 2020  |  Travel Payments

You may not have noticed, but travel is becoming much more than just packing the family into a car or plane to visit the coast...

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Alexa’s Expanding Ecosystem
Alexa’s Expanding Ecosystem
January 08, 2020  |  Alexa

When Alexa was first introduced in November 2014, it didn’t look much like the next big thing in user interfaces. There wasn’t very much like...

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Why Travel Is A Popular Destination For Fraudsters
Why Travel Is A Popular Destination For Fraudsters
January 08, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

The excitement of the winter holidays is over, and that leaves only one thing: the annual bout of existential dread that comes from all of...

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Can Refined Food Waste Give A Boost To Sustainable Commerce?
Can Refined Food Waste Give A Boost To Sustainable Commerce?
January 08, 2020  |  Innovation

Sustainable commerce is having a moment — well, two or three of them given how millennials and even younger consumers champion the trend — and...

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NRF On PIN-less EMV Cards And POS Fraud
NRF On PIN-less EMV Cards And POS Fraud
January 08, 2020  |  Authentication

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Forever 21 Faces Lawsuit For Allegedly Using False Sales Data
Forever 21 Faces Lawsuit For Allegedly Using False Sales Data
January 08, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

Retail chain Forever 21, now in the final stages of bankruptcy, was sued by an Alabama mall owner who said the company misrepresented critical sale...

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Libra Chair Says Bitcoin Is Not A Payment System
Libra Chair Says Bitcoin Is Not A Payment System
January 08, 2020  |  Cryptocurrency

Dante Disparte, vice chairman of the Libra Association, spoke at the Digital Money Forum at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Tuesday...

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