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Five At Five: Even Financial Gets New Funding Round

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Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes Even Financial raising additional funding , Mattress Firm considering bankruptcy , the New York City Council planning to limit ridesharing licenses, Visa buying a stake in Israeli-startup Behalf and Microsoft Pay supporting MasterPass.

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New Big Tech Attacks, Uber Subscriptions Dominate Week’s News

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Nevada Marijuana Dispensary Uses Food Trucks to Sidestep Cards Regs. No one would ever mistake a marijuana dispensary for a food truck, but that is what one shop in Reno, NV calls itself when charging customers’ credit cards. PayPal’s Q2 Rattles Investors. On Tuesday (July 23), that push lost some steam, at least temporarily.

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Where are they now? A look at FinovateSpring 2015 Best of Show Winner Successes

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May 2015 demo: Avoka showed Transact for Financial Services , which combines social, cloud services, and crowdsourcing into the world’s fastest credit card application. What they’ve been up to: March 2016: Presented at FinDEVr New York. September 2015: Demoed at FinovateFall in New York. HQ: Las Vegas, NV.