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Boston Market Deploys AI To Fight Fraud, Improve ROI

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Card network Mastercard and California-based AI and speech recognition company SoundHound have partnered to establish a voice-based, drive-thru solution for quick-service restaurants (QSRs). For more on these stories and other mobile order-ahead headlines download this month’s Tracker.

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The Rise Of Card-on-File Commerce

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Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Part of that includes reminding consumers to use their contactless cards when they check out in their stores (if they have one) or their mobile wallets (if they choose). Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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How Spend Tools Feed Food Banks’ Need For Accountability

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Many card-based solutions have recently debuted, aimed at helping businesses to more easily track expenses, and gain insights into how company funds are spent in the field. The solution also allows managers to set limits on how much money can be spent with the cards, and cancel or freeze them at any time, if necessary. Yordex , a U.K.-based

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Credit Card Payments With Pedals

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PYMNTS recently caught up with Ben Morris, founder and chief pedicab officer at Coaster Pedicab, which owns and operates bicycle taxi companies in more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., We’re obviously moving into a world of plastic, certainly more than we’re using cash,” he said.

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Pride Vendors Look To Triple Sales With mPOS

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To find out more news and trends, download the Tracker. In this month’s feature story, PYMNTS caught up with vendors from Boston and San Diego to explore how mPOS is becoming increasingly critical to winning business at Pride events. Why Pride Vendors Forego Cash for mPOS. Deep Dive: The State of mPOS in North America.

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TRENDING: mPOS And Transit: Where’s The Fit?

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Known as SWYPE, the mPOS device is a Square-like card reader that can be used with a smartphone or tablet and is intended for both large and small businesses. Meanwhile, in the United States, mPOS is making its presence known among commuters in the Boston area. For the full story, download the Tracker. About the Tracker.

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How B.GOOD Got Good At Mobile Ordering

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Customers can take advantage of the program in a variety of ways, including via the Tim Hortons app, a physical loyalty card and a digital card available for Apple and Android phones. For more on these and other mobile order-ahead news items, download this month’s Tracker. Existing loyalty programs are expanding as well.

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