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PayPal leads in the global wallet wars

Posted by | Feb 6, 2017 | , |

Global spending via mobile wallets is expected to rise by nearly 32% this year to $1.35 trillion, a new study from Juniper Research (www.juniperresearch.com) has found.

The study found that spending is currently concentrated in the Far East and China, due primarily to the success of Alipay and WeChat. However, the research says that moves by PayPal and Apple to offer wallets that can be used both in-store and online means that wallets will increasingly become the default payment mechanism in other markets.

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The Northern Spy: memory and storage

The Northern Spy: memory and storage

Posted by | Feb 3, 2017 | , |

By Rick Sutcliffe

The Spy (metaphorically) pens this on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Those two are the most commonly misspelled and mispronounced words on the calendar. That’s English for you, though. After all there are more than twenty correct pronunciations of the letter combination “ough” in English. No wonder students from other countries have such a tough time learning what we native North Americans absorb and store in our memories from infancy.

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Kool Tools: Ticketbud for iOS

Kool Tools: Ticketbud for iOS

Posted by | Feb 3, 2017 | , |

Ticketbud (ticketbudstore.com), the Austin based online ticket sales and event registration company, has a new mobile point of sale (POS) solution for events selling tickets at the door. It’s a credit card reader that works specifically with Ticketbud’s internal processor. As always, event organizers using Ticketbud capture revenue daily from their event.

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