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US to Spend Record 126 Billion Online This Holiday Season [2023 Update]
According to recent data released by Adobe Analytics, American shoppers will be going online to spread the holiday cheer among retailers in 2019. The Adobe study was published a f...
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How Artificial Intelligence is Impacting Cybersecurity [2023 Update]
AI has been something of a hot topic over the last few years, and many are debating whether or not its impact on human life is a good thing or a bad thing. AI is being relied upon...
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Citizens Bank Partners with Microsoft for Xbox All Access
With 2020 looking to be the year that all the next generation games consoles will begin to hit the market, it won’t come as a surprise to learn that many eager consumers are star...
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Online Retail Fraud on the Rise
According to the 2019 Fraud Attack Index by e-commerce security company Forter, attempts at defrauding online retailers have, for the second year consecutively, increased with onli...
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5G Communications Could Change the American Retail Landscape [2023 Update]
In terms of telecommunications and payment transactions, the United States is strangely out of step with the rest of the world in some aspects. Paper checks, for example, are stil...
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Stripe Funding Round Values Company at $35 Billion
Digital payment processing startup Stripe Inc said in a press release it raised $250 million in its latest funding round, bringing its pre-money value to $35 billion, which is mor...
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Twitter CEO Backs Cryptocurrency Startup
The Wall Street Journal has been reporting this week that CEO of both Twitter and payment processing company Square, and longtime advocate of Bitcoin, Jack Dorsey has been a promin...
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Kroger Will Begin Taking Visa Payments Again
In a not at all surprising turn of events, Kroger has decided to cease their ban on Visa payments across all of their 130 Smith’s Food & Drug stores. Why the Ban? Earlier thi...
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Canadians Prefer Contactless Payments
Near field communication (NFC) transactions have been rising steadily all over the world for several years now, and in Canada, the dominance of mobile payment technology is no exce...
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