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PayPal is giving digital startups a helping hand by waiving up to $50,000 in payment processing fees for 18 months. PayPal’s Startup Blueprint Program reduces the costs for startups helping them get up and running quickly, removing the complexity of payment processing, and helping them to expand while maintaining them as payment customers as they successfully go [...]

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A UK Bitcoin exchange is launching in London this week that will bar customers from the US, citing diverging regulatory approaches to the experimental digital currency. Bitcoin has made the news recently for a series of high profile criminal activities mainly based in the USA. Coinfloor, which is being pitched by its founders as a forum for high-frequency [...]

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NTT DOCOMO, founder of Japan’s Osaifu-Keitai mobile payments service and MasterCard have announced the upcoming commercial launch of iD/PayPass-branded payments via DOCOMO’s iD mobile credit payment system. The launch opens up some 1.2 million MasterCard PayPass acceptance locations for NFC payments in over 50 countries to iD users beginning February 5, 2014. The rollout of the new [...]

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In a blog post this week, Google announced that local businesses can now offer coupons on Google Maps almost as quickly as you grab directions via the app. The company is rolling out a new tool for advertisers that lets them link discount offers to Google Maps searches with just a few mouse clicks. These offers will [...]

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U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest bank in the United States and lead bank of U.S. Bancorp and Mitek Systems have made an agreement in which U.S. Bank will offer Mitek’s Mobile Photo Balance Transfer to mobile banking customers. “U.S. Bank recognizes the power of mobile imaging and its ability to enhance our customers’ experience by giving [...]

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