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As Bill Payments Go Digital, The Rental Industry Still Lags

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online bill payments made by consumers in 2016 were conducted via biller-direct sites, up from 62 percent in 2010. They accounted for 27 percent of online bill payments in 2016, down from 38 percent in 2010. That’s despite the frictions that plague such payments, like slower transaction times and security flaws.

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What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys

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In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. In 2010, two researchers at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research published a paper that shed new light on how the brain makes decisions to stick with or change routine behaviors. Here’s why. Asking a question.

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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

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He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. He stayed with the company through its acquisition by Amazon in 2009 and joined Sequoia Capital as Partner in October 2010. BILL GURLEY. JEFF JORDAN. MARY MEEKER.

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Fintech Fundings: 22 Companies Raise $300 Million Plus 2 IPOs Raise $5.9 Billion

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Total raised: Unknown (carved out of Royal Bank of Scotland in 2010). Secure messaging for financial services. HQ: Boston, Massecheusetts. Tags: Enterprise, IDology (investor), security, risk management, payments, Finovate alum. Here are the deals by size from Oct 10 through Oct 16: . Payment processer. Latest round: $3.3

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The Future Of Housing: From Home Building To City Planning, Tech Giants & Startups Are Reimagining Where & How We Live

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We can use mobile apps and voice commands to control our lighting, temperature, and home security. Asimov predicted the exploding population would cause US cities like Boston and New York to converge along the coast into combined super-urban bodies, while suburban communities would have to expand downwards, building subterranean homes.

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121 Of The Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures Of All Time

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The startup, which was established in 2008, privately raised $185 million before its $100 million initial public offering was blocked by the Australian Securities Exchange last year. So its secured lender, which [founder Scott] Jones didn’t name, recently emptied ChaCha’s bank accounts. via Beta Boston. via Forbes.

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2019: What To Take Forward And What To Leave Behind

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And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. That just makes the point much stronger. Consider this.

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