merchants

Amazon Entices Advertisers With New Video Format
Amazon Entices Advertisers With New Video Format
October 19, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon is working to attract advertisers by allowing them to add wide-screen videos and interactive, multimedia displays to their product pages. But those enhancements come...

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How The ‘Debbie Test’ Can Flag Sketchy Merchants
How The ‘Debbie Test’ Can Flag Sketchy Merchants
October 10, 2017  |  Risk Management

“Does this merchant pass the Debbie Test?” That’s the first thing Donald Kasdon, chief executive officer of credit card processing and payment solutions provider T1 Payments, said he asks...

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Today In Data: The Evolution Of Commerce Intermediaries
Today In Data: The Evolution Of Commerce Intermediaries
October 09, 2017  |  Today In Data

Though commerce intermediaries have been around for centuries and date back to the Ottoman Empire — the first Grand Bazaar was held in Istanbul, Turkey,...

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Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?
Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?
October 09, 2017  |  Commerce

Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand...

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How Retailers Can Avoid Reinventing The Wheel In 2017
How Retailers Can Avoid Reinventing The Wheel In 2017
October 06, 2017  |  Retail

The retail game has evolved so much over the last half decade that, in some ways, it might be unrecognizable to a traveler who somehow...

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Stripe Aims To Cure Mobile Checkout Conversion Blues
Stripe Aims To Cure Mobile Checkout Conversion Blues
October 04, 2017  |  Payment Methods

Stripe has launched Stripe Elements, a set of tools that helps digital merchants build a smoother and more streamlined checkout process for their customers. According to Lachy Groom, head of payments for...

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Today In Data: Yelp Boosts Commerce
Today In Data: Yelp Boosts Commerce
September 20, 2017  |  Today In Data

Merchant review website Yelp has a unique status in the eCommerce landscape, allowing customers the opportunity to peer review their favorite — and least favorite —...

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Jewel Paymentech Puts Banks On Par With FinTechs
Jewel Paymentech Puts Banks On Par With FinTechs
September 19, 2017  |  Startup Check-In

There’s one thing banks and FinTechs can agree on: Those old-fashioned merchant onboarding processes take way too long. But nimble FinTechs have been able to...

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PayPal’s Ready On Mobile Payment’s True Potential
PayPal’s Ready On Mobile Payment’s True Potential
September 11, 2017  |  Mobile Payments

“It is not about changing the swipe or dip to a tap; it’s about using a [smart]phone to do things that you could not otherwise do.”...

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