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Mobile-payment companies roll out new toys for businesses
Restaurants and shop owners fed up with antiquated cash registers and expensive credit card terminals are switching to cheaper devices that plug into smartphones and tablets.
Competition is heating up in mobile payment system industry
Restaurants and shop owners fed up with antiquated cash registers and expensive credit card terminals are switching to cheaper devices that plug into smartphones and tablets.
Morning business news - June 11
A report urging British Chancellor George Osborne to hand out shares in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds to the public was described by the British Treasury as "quite robust and well researched" but speaking on Morning Ireland, analyst Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven Investment Management in London described the plan as a "faintly ridiculous ... (more)
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