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X lands money licenses in Illinois, New Mexico

Payments Dive

The social media platform is now nearly halfway to securing the state licenses needed to fulfill owner Elon Musk’s vision of a nationwide payments app.

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The Taste Of New Mexico In A Subscription Box

PYMNTS

Entrepreneurs are sometimes inspired to create companies based on a place where they have strong ties: Eric Smith was born as well as raised in New Mexico and co-founded Nuevo Food Box , which offers a subscription box of food highlighting the flavors of the state. They met in the state, but they had to move away for work (and life).

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Emergent Technology Invests In Trust Stamp To Verify Identities

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Biometric data is then recorded and matched with a photo ID, public records or social media to verify the person’s identity. It is also being piloted to fight human trafficking by the Attorneys General of New Mexico and Guanajuato, Mexico, with a future rollout planned for additional U.S.

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The Stats of Summer

PYMNTS

A few years ago, The New York Times took a shot at the quantification of fun with an article that does the rounds on social media every summer in late June despite the fact that it is now four years old. We like trackers here at PYMNTS , and fun is one of those things that is notoriously hard to quantify.

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Fintech Fundings: 12 Companies Raise $205 million Week Ending June 18

Fintech Labs Insights

HQ: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Social cryptocurrency . Tags: Bitcoin, mobile, social media, P2P payments. Latest round: $20 million (at $100 million valuation). Total raised: $31 million. Source: Finovate. Restaurant point of sale system. Latest round: $15 million Series A. Total raised: $15 million. FundsIndia.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

Then, they spent an equal amount of time working on distributing that content both through social media (Reddit, personal finance forums) and through SEO (which wound up driving about 20% of Mint’s overall traffic). New Mexico — #16 in Credit Karma searches. Texas — #13 in Credit Karma searches.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

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Atari had a landfill in New Mexico for unsold product where many of the E.T. Wave was an ambitious platform designed to keep people connected as a combination text and social media platform. million came back to the company. cartridges ended up. Video game historians have pointed to E.T. Wave, Google (2009).