payments
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PayPal shutters Malaysia office as part of customer service reorg
Payment giant PayPal has closed its office in Malaysia as part of a restructuring of its customer support teams. The…
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Trends
Zwipe tops up with $14M to bring biometric payment cards to market this year
Biometric payment card startup Zwipe has swiped $14M to add to an earlier Series B round as it continues to work…
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Trends
WeChat is quietly ranking user behavior to play catch-up with Alibaba
Over one billion people leave behind trails of information on WeChat every day as they use the messenger to chat,…
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Trends
Square launches SDK for in-app payments
There’s a fortune to be made in mobile in-app billing. In-app purchases accounted for 43 percent of mobile app revenues…
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STARTUPS
A month after $70M, Clearbanc raises $50M fund to front startups ad money
Clearbanc is disrupting startup funding by providing companies cash to buy ads in exchange for a revenue share so they…
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Finance
PayPal: Black Friday & Cyber Monday broke records with $1B+ in mobile payment volume
Black Friday broke records in terms of sales made from mobile devices, according to reports last week from Adobe. This week,…
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STARTUPS
Meet ‘Bitski’, the single sign-on wallet crypto desperately needs
The mainstream will never adopt blockchain-powered decentralized apps (dApps) if it’s a struggle to log in. They’re either forced to…
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Finance
WeChat e-wallet teams up with Line to target Japan’s 7M Chinese tourists
China’s biggest chat app WeChat is set to make its payments service more ubiquitous in Japan, a popular outbound desitnation…
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Finance
Cross-border fintech startup Instarem raises $20M for global expansion
Instarem, a Singapore-based startup that helps banks transfer money overseas cheaply, has raised a Series C round of over $20…
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Trends
Tencent e-wallet is following Alibaba to Hong Kong subways
China’s payments giants have taken their battle to Hong Kong. Less than a week after Ant Financial announced adding QR…
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