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PayPal spotlighted its retail partners Tuesday, showing off new campaigns for its in-store purchase feature as it tries to get into 2 million locations by the end of this year.

The new Square Cash service, which is currently invite-only, seems to bring the mobile payments company a little closer to PayPal's core offering.

The nation's trade office will get its second acting chief trade negotiator within the past couple of months this week.

What began as a public-private partnership bidding process to find a food vendor for a beloved urban park launched a massively successful mid-market burger chain.

Peter Brown of Los Gatos takes a mango jello shot during the 102nd Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, CA Sunday May 19th, 2013.

At one-square inch - not counting the connector post - Square Register is a tiny gizmo that has attracted attention from several Kamloops businesses.

So juicing is a thing. Practitioners range from DIYers who occasionally liquefy a sheaf of kale to the sort of person who has bottles of cucumber-watercress delivered each morning.

A Middle Tennessee shopping mall has become among the few nationwide to use canine security patrols, a tactic that's gaining popularity despite disagreement over its effectiveness.

Ex-Groupon CEO Mason Moving to San Francisco to Start New Company Former Groupon Inc.

Google Wallet Android API. Openmind creates a mobile communications platform API.

A year after collecting feedback from community outreach meetings, the developer of a project on El Camino Real returned to the community with an updated plan to share with neighbors.

A hello to Square , and greetings to their newest innovation, the Square Stand. which turns an ordinary iPad into a complete point of sale system.

Apple Advances their Future Shopping App Again & More - Patently Apple - "Today's patent application adds at least five major aspects to the "Shopping" apps patent claims." Half of Visa's payments will be via mobile by 2020, says Visa Europe VP - The Drum - "...Hawkett said that Visa views mobile as the opportunity to "redefine" payments." Can ... (more)

Under construction scaffolding covering the entry of the American Eagle Outfitters store in Times Square recently, temporary signs were set up to alert the crowds that they could still shop at the multi-level emporium packed with the Pittsburgh company's wares.

Groupon Inc., whose deal vouchers are designed to drive traffic to local stores and restaurants, is offering a tool that could lower payment processing costs for those merchants.

The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission and MasterCard have announced the roll-out of 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with electronic payment capability as a pilot programme.

All of the winning companies have best demonstrated how Paymetric's solutions, XiPay On-Demand or XiSecure On-Demand solution helped the organization to: "We are working with the world's most prominent and highly respected brands to implement Paymetric solutions to process electronic payments and secure sensitive data.

Apple has submitted plans to open a new retail store on Union Square, replacing its nine-year-old store at Stockton and Ellis streets a few blocks away.

At a press conference yesterday at revered Germantown eatery City House, Kings of Leon's Caleb and Nathan Followill announced they'll spearhead Music City Eats - a local food and music festival to overtake Nashville's Public Square Park on Sept.

Square Inc, a closely watched payment-processing company, made a significant push into the hardware business on Tuesday, unveiling a new credit-card reader that it claimed could be the centerpiece of the next-generation checkout counter.