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Live Nation Settles With DOJ Over Ticketmaster Antitrust Violation

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Live Nation Entertainment reached a deal with the government, resolving concerns that the company had violated a 2010 antitrust settlement. The agreement — which was set to expire in 2020 — bars Live Nation from forcing venues to use Ticketmaster when they want to book tours, as well as retaliating when a venue uses another ticketing service.

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Amazon Gains Ground In Holdout Markets

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Not every product launches smoothly (RIP Fire Phone ), not every new endeavor delivers (Amazon’s flirtations with offering a travel platform ended abruptly) and not every new market immediately yields. The degree to which consumers intend to continue shopping online seems to depend on the types of products and services they purchase.

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Digital Payments, Online Ordering And Memberships Top This Week’s News

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We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year marketing campaign rolled out by American Express in 1987 to convince consumers that it was worth paying a yearly fee for one of its charge card offerings. Booking Holdings cautioned investors on Thursday (Nov.

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TSYS Inks Partnership With National Golf Course Owners Assn.

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16) that it has been named the official payment processing partner of the National Golf Course Owners Assn. TSYS’ payment platforms and functionalities can be integrated to most golf point-of-sale systems on the market today, noted TSYS. “We TSYS, the payment processor, announced Wednesday (Aug.

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Outdoorsy Makes Happy Campers Out Of RV Owners And Renters

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That’s the market summary Outdoorsy Co-founder and CEO Jeff Cavins gave to PYMNTS' Karen Webster on the status of his RV rental platform, which’s about to cross the billion-dollar bookings milestone in only its fifth year in business. There is no Airbnb in Grand Canyon National Park. It's sensational. So I say, wait a minute, 2.3

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India’s MakeMyTrip Taps Into Blossoming Corporate Travel Market

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India’s largest online travel company, MakeMyTrip, is entering the business-to-business (B2B) space with the launch of a new solution for corporate travel. 28) said MakeMyTrip is rolling out MMT MyBusiness, a tool developed to help small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in India book business trips.

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National Trends Win Big With B2B Investors

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India led the competition with the most funding rounds, as investors supported the nation’s efforts to develop the digitization and sophistication of more traditional business operations: eProcurement, eInvoicing, logistics and supply chain management. market struggles with investor doubt and regulatory scrutiny. But the U.S.

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