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Big Fraud, Big FinTech and Big Uber Top Week’s News

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MyPayrollHR Founder Faces $70M Fraud Charge. The CEO and founder of the New York payroll company MyPayrollHR was arrested and charged in a $70 million bank fraud scheme that left hundreds of small businesses across the country scrambling. Visa Partner Launch Eyes $17T Digital Payments Opportunity For FinTechs. Reports and Trackers.

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Bitcoin Daily: Jamie Dimon Could Not Give A *&*% About Bitcoin; Dapper Labs Notches $15M For CryptoKitties

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He said the digital currency was a “terrible store of value” in 2014 and called it a fraud last year. (He Vullo said in a statement, “Today’s approval is a further step in implementing strong regulatory safeguards and effective risk-based controls, while encouraging the responsible growth of financial innovation.”

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Visa-Western Union Deal And Alexa’s Roommate Potential Top The Week’s News

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Stripe said the new service is based on Radar, its tool that prevents fraud and protects against future chargebacks. Lead, follow or get out of the way – that seems to apply to the rise of open banking , which promises more financial services innovation, along with greater financial transparency and flexibility. Top Performers.

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Uber Agrees To Pay $145M Fine To Settle Data Breach Lawsuit

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The nationwide settlement, which California helped to lead, calls for a $148 million penalty payment by Uber, benefiting all 50 states and the District of Columbia. We wholeheartedly support innovative business models, but new ways of engaging in business cannot come at the expense of public safety or consumer privacy,” said Gascón.

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It’s Not Easy Being Green: Cannabis Payments

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Seven other states have followed suit within the last five years, including the District of Columbia. That was one of the voices from the Innovation Project’s panel on “The State of Cannabis and Commerce in the U.S.,” What has not changed is how payments for marijuana transpire.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Title: Alberta Health Services shuts down innovative meal-sharing system. Read more here. Product: del.icio.us.

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