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News: Potential Apple App Store Policy Changes Due to EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)

FastSpring

App developers and game developers may be interested in the latest news about Apple gearing up to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act. With the European Union’s Digital Markets Act continuing to ramp up, Apple may be making changes to its App Store policies to comply with the new act. Apple’s filings to the U.S.

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Visa, Mastercard Settlement Represents Major Victory in Merchants’ Fight Against Swipe Fees

Retail TouchPoints

merchants worth an estimated $30 billion that will lower the interchange fees (commonly referred to as swipe fees) that merchants are charged when customers use credit or debit cards. Additionally, the settlement provides funding for new programs to educate small businesses about payment acceptance options and how to best manage costs.

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A guide to GDPR compliance for email marketing (for 2023)

Omnisend

Reading Time: 6 minutes Many businesses wrongly believe that GDPR compliance is only required for businesses based in the European Union. The GDPR applies to any organization, regardless of location, that processes or collects the personal data of individuals within the EU. What about the consequences of non-compliance?

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Cryptocurrencies are the Future of Payments: Here is How Merchants Fit In

Retail TouchPoints

With banks and credit card companies warming up to the idea of Bitcoin trading and crypto rewards on card transactions, are they really extending the benefits of crypto to merchants, or is this just a play to get consumers to buy into a shiny new card that looks different but acts very much the same?

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Shining a Light on a Growing Ecommerce Threat: Chargeback Fraud

Retail TouchPoints

Experts report that chargebacks will cost merchants over $100 billion in 2023, and false claims and abuse of the chargeback process are a growing threat to merchants. The hidden expenses of wasted time, expensive fees, penalties or additional losses of goods and services add up. Internet payments mean more purchases.

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The eCommerce Customer Decision Making Process Simplified

Groove

How The eCommerce Customer Decision Making Process Works. The key to making data-driven decisions is to first understand how the customer decision making process works. The customer decision making process begins with a consumer realizing that they are presented with some sort of problem. deodorant manufacturers).

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Google Rolls Out New Tools to Help Merchants Stand Out on Search

Retail TouchPoints

Just in the time for the holiday shopping season, Google is debuting new features to help merchants capture consumers’ attention in search results, including a small business “tag,” generative AI tools for product imagery and a more detailed business information module in search results. The tools will be available first to U.S.