Square today launched a new payment option for small businesses to let customers pay for larger purchases in monthly installments. Initially, the new Square Installments payments plan is available in 22 states for businesses already using Square payments. Brilliantly simple for customers Square Installments offers ...
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Thanksgiving Day is probably the second most popular holiday in the US and with in-store traffic slowly declining, a large number of US retailers are planning to close that day. Seattle’s REI started the trend a few years ago when it decided to give employees ...
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The US Supreme Court decided on June 21, 2018, that states and local governments could require online retailers to collect online sales tax even if they don’t have a physical presence in the local tax jurisdiction. In South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., the court left ...
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Lots of timely global Payments NEXT news for your weekend reading starting with the launch of Amazon 4-Star store in Soho, fraudsters using look-alike URLs, biometrics and contactless payments trends and much more. Also, check out our week’s best payments news roundup. Is Amazon 4-Star ...
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Here’s what we’ve been reading in the global payments news this week. There’s everything from Amazon’s new 4-Star concept store to the mall of the future, biometric payments, contactless payments research and the challenge of look-alike domains. It’s all the news you can use for ...
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With the fast growth of online shopping, a new research report from Venafi shows hackers are also increasing their efforts to steal confidential shopper data using look-alike domains. Global cybersecurity firm Venafi analyzed suspicious domains targeting the top 20 retailers in the US, UK, France, ...
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If you’re a certain age, you might remember the grand FW Woolworth’s department store. Founded in 1878, the successful chain pioneered the five-and-dime store where you could find thousands of products at reasonable prices. It grew into one of the world’s largest department store chains ...
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India’s leading online shopping site Flipkart, now 77% owned by Walmart, launched a cashless credit program that will give shoppers access to an instant credit line of up to Rs 60,000 ($834 USD) to buy products on the e-commerce marketplace. The announcement comes just ahead ...
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Here’s the best global payments news that crossed our desk this week, all curated and quickly accessed for your weekend reading enjoyment via Payments NEXT. Retail sales prediction: Black Friday & holiday sales could jump 15.5% A new report from Internet Retailer suggests US 2018 holiday retail sales could ...
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Here’s the best global payments news that crossed our desk this week, all curated and quickly accessed for your weekend reading enjoyment. We start with PayPal’s acquisition of iZettle for $2.2 billion. Amazon’s Alexa introduces six new products, hoping to dominate the voice shopping market. ...
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