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Consumers' Preference For Online Car Sales And Auto Loans Shakes Up Banks And Dealers

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Power research shows that the number of customers doing their credit applications online has kicked into high gear. Consumers and Banks Both Like Online Auto Loans. Consumers are apparently so glad to dump the back-office haggle between dealer and bank that roughly one-third of car buyers are now doing the loan process online, J.D.

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Virtual Reality Gains Traction In Retail

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Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports. The eCommerce operator hopes to increase purchases of furniture online via a recently launched feature dubbed Amazon Showroom that takes advantage of virtual reality tools.

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Shopify Launches Its Own Payments Hardware

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For the first time, Shopify is introducing its own payments hardware to the market with what they are calling a unique approach to the standard card reader. The new EMV-compliant device made its first public appearance at the firm’s Unite developer conference in San Francisco. The fee per swipe is 2.4

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Enterprise Security Returns To Top Of B2B Investment Mountain

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Socure provides cloud-based fraud prevention and identity verification functionality to its business customers, and said in its announcement it plans to use the funding to focus on sales, marketing, research and customer support team expansion. growth trajectory, particularly in the healthcare and public sectors. Splice Machine.

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B2B Startups Welcome Another Unicorn With TripActions Funding

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With artificial intelligence (AI), Fraugster has developed a software solution that prevents fraud for online retailers, analyzing data from multiple sources and cross-checking information to determine whether a transaction is fraudulent or not. Based in Germany, Fraugster raised more than $13.9 The firm, with headquarters in the U.S.

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FinovateSpring 2017 Live Blog – Day 2

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Omnichannel campaigns online. It looks like the company HQ is in Uruguay and they have an office in San Juan, PR. Showing how a banker could build an online offer in real time. From their web site: Unison is the market leader in home ownership investment. I like this idea. For more information, visit www.capsilon.com.

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This Week In Amazon Vs. Walmart: The Battle For Consumers

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It was a big week for advances in robotic deliveries, with Postmates securing the first permit to test robotic sidewalk deliveries in San Francisco. Surescripts’s claims are unfounded, false and appear to be part of their overall market strategy,” a ReMyHealth spokesperson said.

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