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One Food-Ordering App To Rule Them All

PYMNTS

It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. The OrderUp acquisition from Groupon ended on similar terms, with Groupon customers gaining coupon codes and gift cards to certain Grubhub-participating restaurants.

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

PYMNTS

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. Never mind the people who start rummaging around in their purse or wallet to pull out their cards after stepping up to the checkout counter. The ability for merchants to surcharge in the U.S. is nothing new.

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The End Of The Uber Experience?

PYMNTS

Before Uber in Boston, where I live, trying to get a taxi reliably was not only friction-filled, it was infuriating much of the time — something that a study conducted by the city of Boston in 2013 on the taxi industry bore out. That was on a day without bad weather, something Boston never has.

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Why One Startup Is Desperately Seeking Regulation

PYMNTS

Officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the national bank regulator, told the Boston startup they would weigh its request. The OCC offers few limited-purpose charters, mostly for trust companies or credit card issuers. In the last 10 years, it has issued eight such charters.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Uber, Bitcoin, Botnets, SWIFT – And The Wells Wallets

PYMNTS

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. I recall three years ago at Innovation Project 2013 that a rather prescient panelist said that the payments system’s worst nightmare would be having the SWIFT network breached. You want to know what really sizzled this week? As for payments, here are this week’s picks and pans.

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In Favor Of Delivery: The Growing Omnichannel Store-To-Door Ecosystem

PYMNTS

PYMNTS recently caught up with Keith Duncan, Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Favor, a store-to-door service officially launched in 2013, to find out more about the digital delivery space and its role in bringing restaurants into the omnichannel ecosystem. Satisfying consumers’ cravings for convenience.

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Hoyos Labs Rebrands as Veridium, Launches New Biometric Authentication Solution

Fintech Labs Insights

” Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Veridium demonstrated the mobile app of its identity assertion platform at FinovateFall 2014. Oxford and London), as well as in Boston, Massachusetts; and Timisoara, Romania. The company also has offices in the U.K.