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North Lane, daVinci Payments Finalize Merger; Form Syncapay

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North Lane Technologies and daVinci Payments said they have finished their merger, making a "high-growth, premier payment company with innovative technology and solutions," according to a Thursday (Dec. North Lane Technologies was known as Wirecard North America in the past. 10) announcement.

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Retailers Look To Digital Technologies After Beating The Street

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Still, the earnings announcement comes as mall operators are trying to reboot in an era when the department store is no longer the anchor tenant of choice at many locations and brands like Macy’s and JCPenney continue to shutter brick-and-mortar stores. In some cases, the retailer is demolishing existing stores to create new uses of the land.

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Smart Retailers Inspire Confidence Via Cleanliness

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The list of positive retail brand attributes goes on and on, but one new post-pandemic value has become more important than all the others: cleanliness. Example: Ted Gallagher is vice president and partner at Environmental Hazards Control , a Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based company that disinfects retail locations and other business facilities.

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When Restaurant Tech Sees Your Face And Identifies Your Taste

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A new technological advancement could flip that model on its head, however, and enable customers to start the service process with their own smiles. . A handful of restaurants have run facial recognition technology experiments at their self-service kiosks. The new technology became the norm in time. . Get the loyalty card.

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Fraud Decisioning Orchestrates A Response

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Some people think the best thing about the Pennsylvania-based convenience store and fuel chain Wawa is their absurdly delicious jalapeño-stuffed pretzels, oozing with molten cheese. So very tasty. Bad people love Wawa , too – mostly for its large database of consumer information. Sealing It.

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Online Gambling: Why Disbursement Options Are Not Keeping Up With Customer Expectations

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Kindred Group, which also supports gambling platforms in Europe and Australia, has been operating its Unibet brand in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for about a year. is not as simple as just building out the technology stack, however. The ways gambling winnings can be paid out in the U.S. US Payments Are Playing Catch-Up.

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Timberland To Roll Out Store With Changing Themes

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According to a report announcing the news, the new brick-and-mortar format will be located in a mall in Pennsylvania and will be called Timberland Tree Lab. There will also be a oversized Timberland table aimed at showcasing its brand. It’s highlighting the company’s new men’s FlyRoam collection, noted the report.