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Thyngs Teams With CDS Global; Alipay Partners With Turkish FinTech

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Inserts, packaging and leaflets can come with near-field communication (NFC) tags and quick-response (QR) codes to allow customers to sign as well as pay using their smartphones for their subscriptions. In Australia and the U.K., Their order information is subsequently transferred for processing to CDS Global.

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How Digital Tech Helps Travelers Crush Big Waves

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Those consumers — given their travel habits, and relatively high sense of adventure — are looking for seamless experiences that go beyond the price tag. Those are all lessons that apply to the world in which Awayco operates, where consumers are “mobile-first,” Silverman said.

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The Stats of Summer

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I still love summer, but that love definitely comes with a price tag,” noted Times writer KJ Dell’Antonia. And while the price tag is undeniable, it is also worth looking at the data that indicates Americans in 2016 aren’t just spending more money because they have to, but because they actually want to.

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Data Dive, Rainy Days Edition: Fines, Misses And Video Game Money Laundering

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Mastercard got tagged with a $648.3 Mastercard and Visa, in negotiations with the European Commission , had offered to put a cap on the fees applied to card payments by tourists in the EU to end the antitrust investigation. Mastercard and Google Fend Off Fines. credit card companies charge. The two payment companies have proposed a 0.2

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Farfetch IPO Shows Luxury Retailers Ready To Ware Online

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No one wears just one suit of armor, and no one shops in just one place when it comes to the mixing and matching of that armor, the hunting for designer names and comparing price tags against the waxing and waning of one’s bank account.

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The Tepid Reaction To Apple’s New Products

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The internet had strong, mostly negative, feelings about slofies — with various Twitter users complaining they were already tired seeing slofies everywhere despite not having seen any yet — and many more bemoaning how every tourist attraction on earth is now going to be filled with slofie taking Apple 11 owners.

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Transcript: Robert Koenigsberger

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Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars. RITHOLTZ: So I tried desperately to avoid being a macro tourist. KOENIGSBERGER: That’s right. So one example that was a lot of fun, I think, was ‘89 or ’90. I’m like 25 years old.