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Mobile Credit Card Processing Explained: What Business Owners Need to Know

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Mobile credit card processing first came on the scene when Square released its original mobile credit card reader in 2009 and by the early 2010s, it had become a common method of accepting payments for small businesses. Popular mobile payment solutions include Square, PayPal Here, and Shopify POS.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

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We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We really wanted to simplify supply chains.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

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Really the last major acquisition they did was in 2008, 2009 when they bought Bear Stearns in Washington Mutual. And so they went to compliance and security and risks, right? We compete with Stripe and PayPal and Adyen and these are sort of very well funded, very sort of driven technology companies.