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eBay Snags Former Amazon Alexa Executive

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Online platform eBay announced it has tapped Peter Thompson, former vice president of Amazon’s Alexa Voice Services, as its new senior vice president and chief product officer. Before his work at Amazon, he was chief operating officer of TiVo and held executive roles at Microsoft, T-Mobile, Ericsson and Sonos.

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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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Chipotle Hires Taco Bell’s CEO

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Brian is a proven, world-class executive, who will bring fresh energy and leadership to drive excellence across every aspect of our business,” Chipotle’s CEO Steve Ells said in a statement. Niccol, who came to Taco Bell in 2011, became CEO in 2015 after holding the position of president.

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Can Subscription Commerce Revive Floundering Movie Theaters?

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First founded in 2011, MoviePass now operates under the leadership of Mitch Lowe, who co-founded Netflix and previously served as president of Redbox. They can tell if you watched a trailer online, but they can’t tell if you actually go to the movies,” Farnsworth said. “As Giving moviegoing a subscription twist.

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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: October 2011. Date: August 15, 2011. Zynga and OMGPOP. Date: March 21, 2012. Price: $210M. a viral gaming hit for iOS and Android.

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Good News from Gen Next

Independent Banker

Another significant finding of the survey was that across generations, Americans prefer to work with locally owned and operated banks. This can become of part of the thought-leadership calendar.”. The median number of texts sent by Gen Z per day was 100 in 2011, up from 60 in 2009. A true online generation.

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Fast EMV, Mobile Starbucks And Under-Fire Payday Lending

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Fraud is moving en masse online , though, as in-store methods are getting harder and crooks look to find the weakest link. According to the PYMNTS/Forter Global Fraud Attack Index , online fraud attacks have jumped by 11 percent since the shift in the U.S. Overall, year over year, online fraud attacks have spiked 215 percent.

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