A small business gains many benefits from accepting credit cards from customers as payment. Take a look at what some of those are. Quick Stats: 58% of small businesses are asked by customers to accept credit cards, on a regular basis. By 2017, credit card purchases are expected to rise to 33%. Meanwhile, by 2017, …

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Consumers have certain expectations of their shopping experience that are simply non-negotiable.  While willing to be flexible site design, selection and pricing—it is hard to imagine someone sitting down to purchase something in a retail context…

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Surprisingly, 75 percent of US merchants aren’t set up to sell cross-border, leaving money and new customers on the table. So, how do merchants go global but stay local cost effectively?

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Sotheby’s and eBay are partnering up to bring a taste of high-end, big ticket auctions to the auction website that built its reputation on the vast array of Star Wars lunchboxes it initially made available to its user base.

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Maybe it was the celebration of our independence on the 4th of July that got British columnist, John Gapper, annoyed enough with the US to write a piece in the FT last week that took our banking and payments systems to task.

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Fighting the trend that has seen millennial consumers—those aged 18 to 34—increasingly pulled away from traditional banking channels in favor of all digital methods of storing, moving and using money like Google Wallet or PayPal;  one Chicago area…

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In the U.S. and around the world small businesses that act as supplier for larger firms often have difficulty seeing invoices paid.  Depending on local ordinance, small business owners can legally be made to wait 30-90 days for payments on orders,…

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Visa Europe: Biometrics may enable mobile payments
SecureIDNews
On way that consumers may be identified is with biometrics. Samsung and PayPal announced earlier this year that the fingerprint scanner on the S5 would enable payments.

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Defense Department’s Biometric System to Undergo Operational Test; Sandy …
ExecutiveGov
Sandy Vann-Olejasz, project manager for DoD Biometrics, according to the report.

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Will Samsung’s next phone have an IRIS SCANNER? Firm hints technology …
Daily Mail
The iris-scanning technology was expected to launch on the Samsung Galaxy S5 (pictured) but is now thought to be heading for the Galaxy Note 4.

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