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The Digital Merchant 2022: Crypto Payments Take Travel in New Directions
The Digital Merchant 2022: Crypto Payments Take Travel in New Directions
June 07, 2022  |  Travel Payments

Disrupting traditional travel payments — a legacy ecosystem rife with opacity and inefficiency — is potentially a killer app for cryptocurrency, availing new ways to...

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Apple Kicks Off WWDC with an Eye on Connecting Everyone, Everything
Apple Kicks Off WWDC with an Eye on Connecting Everyone, Everything
June 06, 2022  |  Apple

Apple’s annual conference is still being held digitally this year at no charge and is open to all for an “inspiring week of technology and...

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Indian FinTech Kiya.ai Opens Banking Metaverse
Indian FinTech Kiya.ai Opens Banking Metaverse
June 05, 2022  |  Metaverse

Indian FinTech Kiya.ai will debut a “banking metaverse” to allow users to visit a virtual bank branch in their own homes, a press release said...

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NFT and Metaverse Weekly: Metaverse Celebrations Feature the Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Payments Firm Worldline Set Up Virtual Shop; Ripple CEO Calls NFTs ‘Underhyped’
NFT and Metaverse Weekly: Metaverse Celebrations Feature the Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Payments...
June 02, 2022  |  Metaverse

Can you hold a Memorial Day celebration in the metaverse? Of course. Should you? That’s another question — and one with a lot of question...

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European Payments Services Company Worldline Launches Virtual Showroom in Metaverse
European Payments Services Company Worldline Launches Virtual Showroom in Metaverse
May 31, 2022  |  Metaverse

France-based Worldline on Tuesday (May 31) announced the public launch of one of the first virtual showrooms operated by a payments firm. Get the Full...

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Memorial Day in the Metaverse: Blood, Toil, Tears, Sweat … and Mattress Sales?
Memorial Day in the Metaverse: Blood, Toil, Tears, Sweat … and Mattress Sales?
May 30, 2022  |  Metaverse

There may well be a Memorial Day parade, event, ceremony or, well, memorial somewhere in the many burgeoning metaverses, but we didn’t find one. Get...

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Metaverse Weekly: Epic Battle Brewing for Control of the Metaverse
Metaverse Weekly: Epic Battle Brewing for Control of the Metaverse
May 26, 2022  |  Metaverse

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney went to war with Apple in 2020 over its iron grip on the iPhone ecosystem and with Google a year...

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PYMNTS Blockchain Basics Series: What’s Bitcoin, and How Did It Get That Way?
PYMNTS Blockchain Basics Series: What’s Bitcoin, and How Did It Get That Way?
May 25, 2022  |  Bitcoin

So, what is bitcoin? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Davos Jumps Into Metaverse While Bankers at Forum Blast Crypto Payments
Davos Jumps Into Metaverse While Bankers at Forum Blast Crypto Payments
May 23, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) first live meeting in two years kicked off on Sunday (May 22), and the cryptocurrency industry is out in force....

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