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Staples To Close 225 Stores As Online Sales Soar
Staples To Close 225 Stores As Online Sales Soar
March 10, 2014  |  News

07 March 2014 Staples reportedly plans to close 225 stores by 2015, or 10 percent of its global footprint, as online sales now account for...

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India: The Next Frontier in eCommerce
India: The Next Frontier in eCommerce
March 10, 2014  |  Financial Inclusion

07 March 2014 India’s leading ecommerce site, Flipkart, has recent surpassed the billion dollar mark in its annual Gross Merchandise Value (GMV). This represents a...

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Wells Exploring Voice Recognition
Wells Exploring Voice Recognition
March 09, 2014  |  Alternative Finances

Wells Fargo is developing a vocal recognition system to be used with its digital banking platform. While still in the experimental phase, the system would...

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Pot’s ‘Grey Market’ Poised To Push B2B Payments Innovation
Pot’s ‘Grey Market’ Poised To Push B2B Payments Innovation
March 08, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Legalized for medical consumption in 20 states and for recreational use in Colorado and Washington, marijuana is still federally classified as a Schedule 1 narcotic....

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T-Mobile: ‘We Are Not A Bank’
T-Mobile: ‘We Are Not A Bank’
March 04, 2014  |  Alternative Finances

T-Mobile is hitting back at charges that it’s entering the banking business. A senior T-Mobile official spoke with American Banker, saying in an interview that...

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Global Luxury Market Growing, But Is That Good?
Global Luxury Market Growing, But Is That Good?
March 04, 2014  |  Cool

Looming store closures by Macy’s, J.C. Penney and Sear Roebuck and Co. represent a grim example of the general tenuousness of consumer spending. Tick up...

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eBay Rejects Icahn Move To Spin Off PayPal
eBay Rejects Icahn Move To Spin Off PayPal
March 04, 2014  |  B2B Payments

23 January 2014 By Jeffrey Green (@epaymentsguy) EBay’s board of directors on Jan. 22 rejected a proposal by investor Carl Icahn, who had submitted a...

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