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In Japan, An HR Conglomerate Uses Payments To Get A Foot In The Door
In Japan, An HR Conglomerate Uses Payments To Get A Foot In The Door
January 13, 2015  |  International

Small-business point-of-sale products can come from unexpected places — but from a Human Resources conglomerate based in Japan? That’s the improbably source for a rapidly...

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Put Your Loyalty Cards On Your Phone
Put Your Loyalty Cards On Your Phone
December 03, 2014  |  Loyalty & Rewards

Hong Kong-based startup PassKit has added another item to its mobile loyalty toolkit: a digital-wallet version of that old small-business loyalty standby, the stamp card....

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eCommerce Poses Threats To SMBs
eCommerce Poses Threats To SMBs
December 02, 2014  |  News

Competing in the e-Commerce space can be tough enough for big retailers, leaving it that much tougher for the small, local stores to get their...

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Alternative Lending To Small Business Slides As Big Banks Lend More
Alternative Lending To Small Business Slides As Big Banks Lend More
October 10, 2014  |  Alternative Finances

At a time when peer-to-peer mortgage lending in the U.S. is actually feeding loans to small banks, the situation appears to have flipped for small-business...

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Small Biz Lending Is Down Sharply, At A Time When Other Kinds Of Loans Are Rising
Small Biz Lending Is Down Sharply, At A Time When Other Kinds Of Loans Are...
August 18, 2014  |  News

With all of the attention paid to Fortune 500 companies, it’s sometimes easy to forget the huge economic impact of the health of the roughly...

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