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SXSW: What ClassPass Learned About Making Decisions Easier for Customers

Before her SXSW panel on invisible payments today, we talked to co-founder and CEO Payal Kadakia about how simplifying customers' decisions changed her company.

By Laura Entis

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Majority of Global Merchants Fall Short on Card Data Security Compliance

By Reuters

Tech

Is Bitcoin Speculative Foolery or a Financial Services Breakthrough?

By Carol Roth

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Google Partners With Wireless Carriers to Push Wallet Service

By Reuters

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5 Surefire Ways to Get Clients to Pay on Time

Simplify the way you bill and collect funds from your company's customers.

By René Lacerte

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Why This Internet Pioneer Believes Bitcoin Has the Power to Break the Cycle of Poverty

At 20, Wences Casares launched Argentina's first Internet service provider. Now 40, and with several successful startups under his belt, the serial entrepreneur is on a mission to bring financial security to underserved communities through Bitcoin.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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How Apple Pay Is Poised to Transform the Trillion-Dollar Service Industry

Huge consumer businesses quickly accepted Apple's new payment system but less tech-savvy small businesses might have the most to gain.

By Sam Madden

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Forget the Credit Card. The Way We Pay May Be About to Change.

Say hello to 'tokenization.'

By Bob Sullivan

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Microsoft Is Now the Largest Company in the World to Accept Bitcoin

When Bill Gates boosts Bitcoin, Microsoft listens.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Business Accounting

This Startup Bridges Cash Flow Gaps, One Invoice at a Time

Fundbox chases down the payments for you. Here's how it works.

By Michelle Goodman

Business Operations & Logistics

Square Rolls Out New Reader for Chip-Based Credit Cards

The new reader is available for pre-sale, as the U.S. prepares to say goodbye to magnetic-stripe cards.

By Kate Taylor

Business News

The Payments App Millennials Swear By

Can this payments service catch on beyond its super-connected niche?

By JP Mangalindan

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Apple Pay Opponent MCX Suffers Hack Attack

Email addresses from pilot participants were stolen, the company said, though the forthcoming mobile app -- which lets users purchase goods by scanning a QR code -- was not affected.

By Geoff Weiss

Business News

Google Wallet Creator’s New Startup Gives Credit Card Terminals a Serious Facelift

Osama Bedier is trying to shake up how people pay in stores with a new souped-up rival to the credit card readers sitting next to most cash registers.

By JP Mangalindan

Tech

50 Major Retailers Are Teaming Up on a Mobile Payment System to Defeat Apple Pay

The decision by Rite Aid and CVS to block Apple Pay within its stores over the weekend has shed light on a Walmart-led consortium of retailers developing a contactless payment system of its own.

By Geoff Weiss

Business News

I Tried Apple Pay for the First Time and It Worked Flawlessly

Apple's new payments system, Apple Pay, has launched. This is exactly how easy it is to set up and use.

By Steve Kovach

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Indiegogo Becomes First Crowdfunding Platform to Integrate Apple Pay

Soon, Indiegogo users will be able to fund campaigns with the mere tap of their Touch ID buttons.

By Geoff Weiss

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Obama to Sign Cybersecurity Order, Wants Safer Payments

Action comes after massive data breaches have put millions of consumers at risk.

By Reuters

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Business Is Eager to Embrace Bitcoin But Regulators Are Not

Retailers worldwide increasingly see Bitcoin as just another payment method but governments are suspicious it is a rival to currency.

By Matt Odell

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French Bank, Twitter Team Up for Money Transfers

One of the country's largest banks is teaming up with the social network to allow its customers to transfer money via tweets.

By Reuters

Business News

Square Just Unveiled Something Coffee Addicts Have Been Dreaming About Forever

The mobile payments company's Order app now allows users to pre-order their coffee and alerts baristas as they approach.

By Kate Taylor

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Plastc Wants to Reinvent the Wallet with All-In-One Smart Card

What does this one-size-fits-all card mean for the mobile-payments landscape?

By Nina Zipkin

Business Accounting

Blockchain Raises $30 Million in Biggest-Ever Funding Round for a Bitcoin Company

The world's largest Bitcoin wallet service just sealed a record venture capital deal. Backers include none other than billionaire Richard Branson.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

Accepting Bitcoin Payments Increasingly Looks Like Smart Business

The novel new form of payment has advantages for businesses over credit cards for ordinary transactions.

By Matt Odell

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10 Affordable Tools to Help Online Entrepreneurs Succeed

These applications help improve productivity and streamline certain aspects of business.

By Jonathan Long

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Bill Gates: Bitcoin Is ‘Better Than Currency’

That's right. America's richest man believes Bitcoin is a promising payments solution. Why? Because it's 'cheap.' However, his outlook isn't as bright on the anonymity aspect.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow