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Deep Dive: How Firms Can Avoid Costly Mistakes Come Tax Season

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businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals, and businesses experience those tax difficulties to a far greater degree. SMBs And Manual Tax Frustrations. Digitizing these processes can ease SMBs’ tax frustrations. Spring may seem far away, but U.S.

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Degrees Of Fraud: Digital Identity At Online Universities

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Online universities have become common as more students seek convenient, flexible ways to earn degrees. Western Governors University (WGU), a nonprofit online university based in Salt Lake City, was founded in 1997 by 19 governors of western U.S. The university began utilizing a webcam-based system in 2015. Trust, But Verify.

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Radial’s Fraud Combating Solution For eCommerce Growth

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Radial , an omnichannel and fraud solutions provider, is promising to take away merchant woes with a suite of solutions, which it says improves order conversion rates and helps eliminate fraud. 2015, online fraud is forecast to explode from an estimated $3.1 billion in 2015, to $6.4 percent industry average.

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Today In Payments: Chinese Tech Investments In US Plummet; Ransomware Attacks Up 41 Pct In 2019

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Investments by Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent peaked in 2015 at $4.7 In the fourth quarter of 2019, companies paid on average $84,116 to get their files back from online thieves. Crypto Fraud Scores More Than $4B In 2019. Amazon (And Others) Brace For India’s New eCommerce Tax. Chinese Tech Investments In US Plummet.

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The ‘Nine Deadly Costs Of Fraud’

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Online merchants know very well that fraud costs them in many ways – in chargebacks, in false positives, in the friction that’s introduced at checkout that can cost a sale. But there’s nothing like putting the cost of fraud into the parlance that merchants know really well: units sold. Third Cost: Decline Orders .

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Data Dive, Fall Chill Edition: Fraudsters, Sears And India’s Data Privacy Laws

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The report excluded data on shop-at-home purchases and includes information about frauds reportedly directly to the FTC between January and September of this year. That is up from just 7 percent in 2015 — a 270 percent increase. As of September 2018, losses from gift-card fraud have hit $53 million. However, a host of U.S.

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