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Prices and interest rates are rising, and many experts predict a grim outlook for the nation’s economy over the next few years. This affects you not only as a consumer but also …
By now, you’ve heard the term “chargeback,” but just what is a chargeback and what does it mean when it happens to you? A chargeback is defined as …
For some businesses, like ice cream shops and anything having to do with vacations, outdoors or the beach, the summer season is the busiest of the …
One of the growing trends in payments is the use of biometrics to authenticate the identification of a user. Biometrics is using part of the body – …
Do you remember when Baby Boomers (1946-1964) were dubbed the “Me Decade?” Then Generation X (1961-1981) were considered “slackers?” Well, …
On Friday, July 1, nearly 10 million Android devices with Qualcomm CPU chips were infected by malware called HummingBad, according to Israeli …
In 2014, 54 percent of the world’s population lived in developed cities and this number is expected to reach 66 percent by 2050. With all that …
Any small business owner knows that the key to success is meeting your customer where they are. If you own a shop and you stock merchandise your …
More likely than not, the words omnicommerce and omnichannel are quite new to you. To break it down, quite literally, the stem “omni-” comes from a …
If you’re running a small business, you already know that competition can be fierce. There are a lot of other businesses out there, many of them with …
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In a recently published article on the American Banker website, Mark Horwedel, chief executive of the Merchant Advisory Group dispelled some points …
Seventy percent of credit card users are now using EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) chip technology, and many are curious about why it takes so …
You know your business better than anyone else and you know it like the back of your hand, so do you really need to focus that much on your investor …
As two separate things, social media and advertising make a whole lot of sense to people who study the trends, best practices and evolution of the …
So you have a product that you want to sell or a piece of art, and you’re ready to rent a booth at a festival or art show and start selling? Well, as …
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