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...Even before Ticketmaster’s 2010 merger with concert promoter Live Nation, concert goers and sports fans complained about the platform’s high processing fees, surcharges and failure to crack down on ticket...
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...America is home to some of the highest credit card processing costs in the world....
...The PSR, which is conducting a separate probe into card networks’ processing fees, has given interested parties until the end of January to respond to its findings and proposals....
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...Because you can run things on a CPU [central processing unit], you can run things on a GPU [graphics processing unit], but the GPU and the CPU on your phone are busy doing other stuff....
...Thirteen years ago, Square disrupted payments processing with a simple dongle that merchants could attach to smartphones and tablets to accept card payments....
...First is the processing fee charged by the acquirer for supplying merchants with the sales terminal and undertaking the payment. Next are network fees. These go to the likes of Visa and Mastercard....
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...The technology, which has been in trials since March, is free for subscribers, though Adobe said customers would have to pay more or face slower processing speeds once they exceeded a usage “cap”....
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