HIGH POINT — You spend money on promoting your store, work hard to get customers in the door, and succeed in selling them a nice living room set. But they need to finance the purchase and your primary lender turns them down. Their ...
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Fast updated technology has forced traditional MP3 that with single function to lay off. Nowadays, it is difficult to see traditional MP3 in the stores. What replace are mini stereos that have several functions such as timer switch, FM ...
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Visa's payWave mobile payment applet will be embedded in next-generation Samsung smartphones and tablets enabled with NFC, according to an alliance that both Visa and Samsung announced Monday. The next-generation Samsung Galaxy S IV, ...
The Textile Recycling Association celebrated its 100th Anniversary by holding a Reception and its AGM at the Houses of Parliament in London. Hosted by Right Honourable Tracey Crouch MP, delegates heard the annual TRA President’s ...
Global financial groups have intensified their war to control the lucrative future of the digital wallet, which will let people use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service ...
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GLOBAL financial groups are competing to control the lucrative future of "mobile money", which will enable people to use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service PayPal ...
MasterCard on Monday revised its year-old mobile payment strategy by unveiling a digital, cloud-based service called MasterPass that moves well beyond near-field communication technology used in smartphones to support QR codes, traditional ...
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PayPal will introduce a mobile chip-and-PIN version of its payments service in Europe, starting with a selection of U.K. businesses over the coming months. PayPal Here will fully launch in the U.K. this summer and will be available in ...
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In the week from February 18 to February 24, the scrap indexes started to increase on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index continued to increase. The Black Sea HRC export index started to move downwards, while ...
U.S. consumers experienced the highest level of identity theft in three years in 2012, although much of the fraud losses were absorbed by banks and merchants, according to a new survey. Incidents of identity fraud affected 5.26 percent of ...
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Mega will accept the virtual currency bitcoin for subscriptions for more storage space on the file-sharing service, cofounder Kim Dotcom announced on Twitter. Mega is the second prominent website in a week to say it will accept payment in ...
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Australian-produced app Roamz is reaching out to the retail sector with analytics that will tell a store what customers are saying in real time. Developed in Sydney by entrepreneur Jonathan Barouch, Roamz uses the number-crunching ...
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The popular social-news site Reddit said it will now accept bitcoins, following blogging platform WordPress in embracing the four-year-old virtual currency. Reddit, which lets users submit and vote on popular Web content, already uses ...
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Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones ...
Groupon has acquired MashLogic, a company based in California that makes a simple tool called Britely to capture and collate bits of information from web pages. The announcement, posted on Britely's blog, did not disclose terms of the ...
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