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How BNPL Is Helping BlackCool Boost Brand Awareness And Availability

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a lifestyle brand that offers apparel, accessories and fragrances as well as spirits and hand-rolled cigars. Registering And Extending Brand Appeal . Williform said he conceived BlackCool as a brand inspired by the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that brings about a positive change for Black culture. This is a win-win.” .

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Path To World Series Brings Changes To Online Gambling

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It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. Payments Innovation.

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The Apple Pay Pivot?

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According to its survey of 507 vendors of merchant processing systems, Apple Pay is the most requested mobile digital payments service among retailers. According to the recently released figures, 44 percent of those vendors’ customers are using, or have asked about using, mobile digital payment systems.

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The Return Of The Celebrity-Backed Brand

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Celebrity brand endorsement is nothing new. In their hundreds of years of existence, the celebrity endorsement has become an increasingly prominent part of branding β€” so prominent, in fact, that by the end of the 20th century, they weren’t just endorsing products. Her fragrance was only sold online. It was a smash hit.

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Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News

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It’s never quite a slow week in the world of payments and commerce, and the newest edition of the PYMNTS Weekender is proof of that. The payment firm’s $500 million investment in Uber just before its initial public offering (IPO) dropped 34 percent. Upgrade Card Combines Credit Card Acceptance With Installment Payments Flexibility.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

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Qumrum allows banks to actually document customer interactions online. We enable FIs to record everything that goes on with the customers transactions on mobile, online, social and let the FI validate interactions on that site. Empyr helps to connect online and offline businesses. 11 hours a day online. Jon Carder (CEO).

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Will Children Point The Way Forward For Wearables?

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Children are the future β€” that’s just a biological fact, and the theme of an old Whitney Houston song. Wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers make up one of those areas of payments and commerce that often seem to have more future potential than current significance. .”

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