News - Part 18

  • MasterCard now allows any business to enable P2P payments

    Fortune | May 20, 2015 Payments giant MasterCard is the latest company to get into the person-to-person payments business, joining Facebook, PayPal, and rival Visa. The company launched MasterCard Send, a service that allows people to link their debit card accounts online or on a phone and transfer money to anyone in the U.S. using…

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  • Small Businesses Must Prepare for Chip Cards

    2015 has arrived, and that means that the transition to EMV chip cards in the U.S. has already begun. The use of chip card technology promises to make credit and debit card transactions much more secure and will significantly reduce counterfeit fraud. However, this transition has important implications for small businesses, and recent surveys show…

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  • Payment players PayPal and Square strike gold in financing small businesses

    San Francisco Business Times | May 15, 2015 Payment companies, including PayPal and Square, are finding it quite lucrative to leverage the data they collect on clients’ sales and related information to extend financing to small businesses. PayPal Working Capital — a unit of eBay’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) PayPal, which is in the process of splitting…

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  • Technology 2015: 5 Things that Every Small Business Needs

    Huffington Post Google “small business technology” and you’ll very quickly be overwhelmed: There are more than 807 million articles on the search engine about it. But cut through all the clutter and I believe that the lessons of 2014 mean that there are five technologies that all small businesses must embrace in the New Year:…

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