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...Sometimes I feel like paying a premium and sometimes not: saving time can be as much a commodity as other goods and services....
...“The urgency of reopening these crossings and restoring rail service between the two nations cannot be overstated,” said Ian Jefferies, chief executive of the Association of American Railroads....
...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....
...So I buy two cases of Malbec, my favourite being Santa Julia. It smells so good in the glass it can make me shiver. For the whites, I tend to go Austrian....
...There’s an allegation of tying the buy box [ie, better placement on a product order page] to Amazon fulfilment services....
...Buddhist abbot Roshi Joan Halifax, who founded the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, thinks about this a lot — and is also sceptical of “mindfulness washing”....
...Institutional Shareholder Services awarded Tradeweb the lowest score on a 10-point scale for governance, according to a report dated April 26 seen by the Financial Times....
...“We can get bison out of Santa Fe fairly easily. It’s good — very lean, no fat at all.”...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 23. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Yellow is not reorganising but rather selling off its terminals, trucks and trailers. The gross proceeds collected may far exceed $2bn....
...The database, run by consultants SRI Services, is open to everyone, and is currently being updated. However, it’s designed for professionals so be prepared to do your homework....
...The charges expected to be announced next week relate to the NFC — or “near field communication” — technology that allows a user to pay by tapping their iPhone on a payments terminal....
...After absorbing the companies involved in the deal — the East Ohio Gas Company, Public Service Company of North Carolina and Questar Gas Company — and their 3mn customers across Ohio, North Carolina, Utah...
...Competing for our attention today there’s the informational fog of war, some antisemitic tropes, “terminal monkeys” and a seemingly ever-growing cast of oddly named children....
...McCarthy — who died on Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, at the age of 89 — was the last conjuror of a now vanished America....
...Pete, Tom and I will continue “hitting the road,” Pete will also focus on our diversity and other initiatives, while also being President of Bloomberg Inc....
...Link is a provider of services to Australia’s pension industry, and its ticker is LNK.AX....
...But Melanie Mitchell, the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute and author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, warns against reading too much into what is going on...
...The service works with payment service providers including Stripe, Adyen, and Square....
...Selling payments, processing and financial technology services to banks and credit unions may not be flashy. But it is steady and profitable....
...For Fiserv the addition of Clover — a rival to Square that was owned by First Data — gave it access to one of the biggest payments trends of the past few years: portable, branded point-of-sale terminals...
...Commuter rail systems in Chicago, northern Virginia and southern California also said they would suspend their service during a freight rail strike....
...While he works on that, it may be time for him to reduce financial strains in case the rupture with Apple is terminal....
...“Money is in motion,” said Jason Brady, chief executive of Santa Fe based Thornburg Investment Management. “There’s a big opening.”...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 24, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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