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Reality Sets In … Payments Is Hard
Reality Sets In … Payments Is Hard
May 01, 2014  |  Mobile Commerce

At least that’s the view of Paul Purcell, Partner with Continental Advisors who recently sat down with MPD CEO, Karen Webster to talk about all...

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PayPal 2.0
PayPal 2.0
May 01, 2014  |  News

Fresh off a strong and strange first quarter of 2014, PayPal is off and running in Q2. With a new look, in the form of...

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Green Light For Green Dot’s Q1 Performance
Green Light For Green Dot’s Q1 Performance
May 01, 2014  |  Cool

Who didn’t feel the brunt of the brutal winter? Well Green Dot did, but not enough to jar Q1 results. An unexpected one-time revenue event,...

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Heartland SMB Investment Cuts Into Earnings
Heartland SMB Investment Cuts Into Earnings
May 01, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Heartland is methodically building out its platform to offer a full suite of payments services to small business. While its recent announcement of its e-Invoicing...

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Cards, Regulation and Small Business Financing
Cards, Regulation and Small Business Financing
April 30, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Thirty percent of SMBs leverage business credit cards to finance their businesses. But the rules and regulations related to interest rates and APRs that protect...

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Card Issuers Target The Affluent
Card Issuers Target The Affluent
April 30, 2014  |  Loyalty & Rewards

Perhaps it should come as no surprise, but consumers today are a lot less likely to own a credit card and carry card debt. The...

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Let the Cross Border Games (and Monetization) Begin
Let the Cross Border Games (and Monetization) Begin
April 29, 2014  |  BlueSnap

Move over, Wii. Currently, free and low-cost apps are what gaming consumers are downloading and playing these days, most of which are on mobile devices....

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Will LivingSocial’s ‘Strategic Refocus’ Be Enough?
Will LivingSocial’s ‘Strategic Refocus’ Be Enough?
April 29, 2014  |  Cool

Local deals and marketplace provider LivingSocial once had grand plans for an initial public offering, but Groupon’s IPO flop apparently altered that thinking. Now the...

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How Much Is Square Really Worth?
How Much Is Square Really Worth?
April 28, 2014  |  Mobile Commerce

The payments version of the rumor mill has been going full tilt about whether Square’s running out of cash, whether it’s up for sale, and...

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