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Ron Johnson’s New Company To Focus On Shopper Decisions
Ron Johnson’s New Company To Focus On Shopper Decisions
October 24, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

A few additional details are emerging about the startup former Apple exec and JCPenney CEO is running and it appears to be focused on customer...

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WEX and Sinclair Oil Strike Long Term Contract
WEX and Sinclair Oil Strike Long Term Contract
October 24, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Sinclair Oil Corp. has signed a 10-year contract with  WEX Inc. which will make the Portland base fuel services company the exclusive fleet card provider...

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Rite Aid Dumps Apple Pay
Rite Aid Dumps Apple Pay
October 24, 2014  |  Apple Pay

After accepting Apple Pay at all of its stores on the Apple Pay launch day on Monday (Oct. 20), the $26 billion 4,600-store Rite Aid...

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Amazon’s Quarter Is So Bad The NYTimes Is Making Fun Of It
Amazon’s Quarter Is So Bad The NYTimes Is Making Fun Of It
October 24, 2014  |  News

It’s not easy to justify to investors how you can make $20 billion in revenue and still lose money, but that’s the question Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak had to answer repeatedly...

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Putin Puts Visa/MC Deadline On Ice
Putin Puts Visa/MC Deadline On Ice
October 24, 2014  |  Cross-border Payments

Visa and MasterCard have won a reprieve from Russia’s demand that the card brands pay more than $1 billion each to continue operating in the...

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China’s Tencent Bets Big On Mobile
China’s Tencent Bets Big On Mobile
October 24, 2014  |  Cross-border Payments

Alibaba’s biggest rival in China, Tencent, has just led a $350 million funding round for a startup called Koudai Gouwu that could challenge Alibaba where...

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One Banker’s View Of Apple Pay Threats
One Banker’s View Of Apple Pay Threats
October 24, 2014  |  Apple Pay

Apple has signed up more than 500 banks for Apple Pay, but some bank executives whose institutions are on board with the new payments system...

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