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HomeLight Expands Its Real Estate Financial Products in Arizona [2023 Update]

HomeLight, a real estate technology platform that transforms the home-buying and selling process for top agents and clients, announced that it would expand its flagship financial products, HomeLight Trade-In and HomeLight Cash-Off, to more agents, homebuyers, and sellers in Arizona. This expansion has followed 700% product growth since January 2020. It is supported by a […]

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After Apple Privacy Changes Hit Ads Business Snap Shares Plunge 25%

Snapchat shares plummeted 25% after Apple declared a few critical privacy changes in Apple’s App Store. The owner of Snapchat mentioned that its shares witnessed a decline since Apple’s new privacy policy has affected Snap’s digital advertising. These changes were introduced on Apple’s App stores causing a significant disturbance in the ad management. Not only

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Uber Freight Partners with Marqeta and Branch to Offer Faster Payments

Marqeta is a platform where companies can issue and manage personalized card programs. Recently, it has decided to become partners with Branch, a reputable platform for workforce payments. Uber Freight is partnering with these two giants of the finance industry to streamline its payment process. The reliability and swift payments will bring carrier-first financial services

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Point of Sale Manufacturer Pax Technology Raided by FBI

Federal agents raided the Florida headquarters of PAX Technology, a Chinese producer of point-of-sale systems used by millions of companies and merchants worldwide. According to KrebsOnSecurity, the raid is related to allegations that PAX’s computers were used in cyberattacks on U.S. and European Union targets.  PAX Technology Inc., headquartered in Shenzhen, China, has more than

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Restaurant Credit Card Fraud & Chargebacks: What Operators Need to Know

The growth of online orders has led to more sales for many restaurant owners. Online transactions helped many businesses to survive in the middle of the pandemic. When dining restrictions were enforced, many restaurants turned to third-party apps or built their own websites to generate orders online. While online orders meant more sales, it came

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Fiserv Acquired BentoBox – Restaurant Tech Update

The race to provide POS-centric solutions to restaurants’ digital needs is accelerating. Getting ahead in this race, Fiserv came out with the announcement that it acquired a growing restaurant marketing and commerce platform called BentoBox. Fiserv has already signed an agreement and it aims to integrate BentoBox technology into its Clover restaurant technology solutions. This

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Binance to Raise $1 Billion Fund to Increase Adoption of its SmartChain and Other Blockchain Tech [2023 Update]

Did you notice how drastically Binance Coin’s (BNB) Price surged a few days ago while the rest of the altcoins were bleeding badly? It was hard to miss such a dramatic increase but the question is whether it was a manipulative move or there was a solid reason behind it. On Oct 12, 2021, Changpeng

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Trends in Mobile Credit Card Processing for Fall 2021 and 2022

Over the last 12 months, almost every retailer felt the need to shift from the in-store traditional payment methods to the new-age digital methods. Businesses have also understood that this shift has a vast scope – it is not just a momentary reaction to the prevailing coronavirus pandemic, but a long-term trend. IBM’s U.S Retail

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Sinch Acquires Pathwire, Mailgun, in 1.9B Transaction

Sinch is Sweden’s leading communication service provider in the world. The company is renowned for its cloud communication tools that ensure seamless and fast communication between businesses and customers. It has recently made a big announcement of acquiring Pathwire, the developer of Mailgun – the software that supports quick and efficient delivery of emails as

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Top Merchant Services Trends to Watch in Fall 2021 and 2022

The past year has been full of surprises for merchants, processors, and everyone involved in the payment processing ecosystem. There have been many unexpected highs and lows, but overall the trajectory of the industry has been positive despite some immense challenges. We saw the evolution of payment channels to handle consumer demands and COVID-19 threats.

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What Are the Risks of the Convenient Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)?

Buy now, pay later has taken off over the past few years. Maybe it’s the psychological factor driving adoption and growth where the consumer gets instant gratification of being able to buy what you want right now. Or it’s the new watered-down form of financial engineering giving the masses freedom to make a purchase, even

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Online Orders Through New Clover and Grubhub Integration

Grubhub, the United States’ popular food payment and delivery marketplace, and Fiserv (the fintech company that has launched the Clover® payment solution app) have announced a partnership recently. They released a press statement that showed how the companies have decided to collaborate in order to make the food delivery and payment operations smoother for independent

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