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Amazon Tests Carrier Billing In Germany
Amazon Tests Carrier Billing In Germany
September 18, 2014  |  Mobile

Amazon has now started a trial of allowing shoppers to purchase apps and to make in-app purchases within Amazon’s app store and to then have...

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Why Alibaba’s B2B Model Doesn’t Work In India
Why Alibaba’s B2B Model Doesn’t Work In India
September 18, 2014  |  B2B Payments

While e-commerce giant Alibaba is enjoying the largest IPO in history today, it’s B2B e-commerce model struggles to find a foothold in what should be...

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Counterfeit Invoicing Damages China’s Trade Growth
Counterfeit Invoicing Damages China’s Trade Growth
September 18, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Fake invoiving and inflated export figures that it yielded have lead to slower growth rates in China’s trada data this year, which means Beijing is...

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Alipay Presents Valuation Challenges Pre-Alibaba IPO
Alipay Presents Valuation Challenges Pre-Alibaba IPO
September 17, 2014  |  International

Alibaba may have raised its IPO share price range to as much as $68 due to investor demand, but it’s much harder to calculate how...

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Macy’s Latest Showrooming Weapon
Macy’s Latest Showrooming Weapon
September 17, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

Macy’s is launching its own mobile image-recognition app designed to let customers easily search for items on its ecommerce site by submitting a photo of...

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Chinese Central Bank Whacks Third Party Wallets Over Bad Practices
Chinese Central Bank Whacks Third Party Wallets Over Bad Practices
September 17, 2014  |  International

China’s central bank has punished four payment processors for mishandling bank-card transactions. The processors — ChinaPNR, Fuiou, Yeepay and VBill — will stop doing business...

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Diapers.com Founder Raises Big Dollars To Get Back To Competing With Amazon
Diapers.com Founder Raises Big Dollars To Get Back To Competing With Amazon
September 17, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

The old saying goes: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.  Diapers.com parent company (Quisidi) founder Marc Lore, who sold Diapers.com to Amazon for $550...

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Google Trying To Crack Payments Problem To Ignite Gaming
Google Trying To Crack Payments Problem To Ignite Gaming
September 17, 2014  |  Merchant Innovation

To reach every corner of the world with the games on its Android platform, Google is thinking about how people pay, according to VentureBeat. Speaking...

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Debt Collection StartUp Gets Boost From Khosla and Max Levchin
Debt Collection StartUp Gets Boost From Khosla and Max Levchin
September 17, 2014  |  Alternative Finances

Debt-collection startup TrueAccord was launched after co-founder Ohad Samet started getting phone calls at random times from a number he didn’t recognize — which turned...

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