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

CB Insights

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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What’s The Future For NBA-Related Retail In China?

PYMNTS

Basketball is one of the most popular sports – if not the most popular sport – in China, but there’s a little less NBA available today for online shoppers in that country, according to reports. Tencent has been the digital media partner of the NBA in China since 2009. The move comes after the general manager of that U.S.

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Strava’s Journey From Fitness App To Fitness Ecosystem

PYMNTS

Founded as an online portal for bicycling enthusiasts in 2009, Strava it bills itself as “the social network for athletes,” has taken in $70 million in funding and has “tens of millions of active users,” according to CEO James Quarles. Quarles is new to his job, having come on board last spring, but he is not new to social media.

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CFPB issues fourth biennial report on credit card market

CFPB Monitor

The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (CARD Act) requires the CFPB to perform periodic market reviews. The CFPB’s first CARD Act report was issued in October 2013, its second report was issued in December 2015, and its third report was issued in December 2017.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, Date: May 21, 2009. Zynga and OMGPOP. Date: March 21, 2012. Price: $210M. a viral gaming hit for iOS and Android. Cisco and Pure Digital. Price: $590M.

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The Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: The Delivery Edition 

PYMNTS

The clock is ticking — holiday shipping deadlines are approaching and the last of the holiday shopping procrastinators are either rushing to order online or resigning themselves to a last-minute trip to a crowded mall or shopping center to tough it out in line with all the other procrastinators. Walmart .

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Good News from Gen Next

Independent Banker

This can become of part of the thought-leadership calendar.”. This group of youngsters spends about 112 video hours per month watching screens, with about five of those hours online, eight of those on mobile devices and 99 on TV. The median number of texts sent by Gen Z per day was 100 in 2011, up from 60 in 2009.