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Alipay Partners With Norway Tourism Board

PYMNTS

The mobile payment service boasts more than 500 million registered users and plans to grow that number to exceed 2 billion within the next 10 years. In turn, STB will promote Alipay services in Norway by encouraging local merchants to consider and accept Alipay’s mobile payment solution and marketing platform.

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i-mode Phones Take Their Final Bow (Plus, PayPal, Starbucks, Shell & Apple Pay)

PYMNTS

If one jumps in the wayback machine and parks it at the turn of the millennium, the gears were already turning in innovators’ heads about making mobile about more than a device that could make phone calls and send SMS messages. That was a lesson it took the rest of the mobile world nearly ten years to catch on to.

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Android Growth Slowing — But Still Gaining Ground

PYMNTS

The move to heads-up competition, so far, is playing better for Android, as Windows phone defectors are primarily moving to Google’s OS in key markets. In the EU5, year-on-year growth between March 2015 and 2016 was 7.1 percentage point increase for the three months ending March 2016, up from 75.6 percent to 76 percent.”.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Sergii Danilenko (Head of Marketing). 01:20 pm William Mills, CEO of William Mills Agency, and Stephen Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc, discuss highlights from FinovateSpring 2016 Day 1. We are using world-leading AI with risk analytics.

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The Lucrative Advertising Life Of Instafamous Kids

PYMNTS

Through the power of that loophole, fans all over the world can keep up with Alessi’s doings (spoiler alert: Like most babies, she lies around and looks cute in clothes) and other underage influencers can stay platformed. Ryan’s first video, which was posted in 2016, has to date received some 48 million views.

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

PYMNTS

The world of 2009 was starkly different, a far less optimistic place. So were Venmo, Uber, Square, FastPay, Stripe, Flywire , Recurly, Kabbage and many more — and PYMNTS, as it turns out. As Nan Siler, head of payment and financial operations at Kabbage, noted, it’s been a pretty wild ride, thus far.

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New ICBA chairman Derek Williams’ commitment to community

Independent Banker

A banking stalwart described by outgoing chairman Brad Bolton as “a passionate community leader and a staunch leader of our industry,” Williams has built a career by immersing himself in the community banking world. He has also served on ICBA’s executive committee for many years, including a term as treasurer from 2016 to 2018.

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