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The History of Ecommerce: What The Past Says About Tomorrow’s Retail Challenges

BigCommerce

1998 PayPal launches as an online payment system. 2011 Google Wallet launches as an online payment system. 2011 Facebook launches sponsored stories as a form of early advertising. 2011 Stripe launches. 2014 Apple Pay launches as a form of mobile payment. 2011 – Stripe launches. is founded.

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How Jack Dorsey helped build Twitter

365 Retail

Jack Dorsey has announced his resignation as chief executive of Twitter, the social media platform he co-founded in 2006. They decide to create a mobile credit card reader that could be plugged into the headphone jack of a smartphone – which would become Square’s first product.