sounders

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by sounders 9y ago
Credit card companies and retailers have sold anonymized purchasing data for years to help companies analyze online ad clicks to offline spend. Auto companies have used Polk vehicle registration data and data aggregators to match a vehicle
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by sounders 13y ago
Google never had great customer service for this product. There were less than five people (customers often called this out since they would submit multiple help tickets and the same people would respond) and they never wanted to devote mon
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by sounders 13y ago
As a former Google Checkout/Wallet employee, this is completely right. When Checkout was first released, companies would get free AdWords credit to sign up and use the service. Also, non-profits got free processing. After this initial
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by sounders 13y ago
Saying that Google Checkout is being replaced is extremely misleading to merchants. Almost all Google Checkout merchants process less than a million with Google Checkout, so it is not worth it for them to do their own credit card processing
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by sounders 14y ago
I think it's interesting that people with a computer science and technical background are often referred to as "engineers" in tech. It seems like such a general label that can apply to anyone from a chemical engineer to a CS major, it all d
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by sounders 14y ago
Google creates a onetime virtual card number that it sends to the merchant and that the merchant can process. The onetime card number never changes for that transaction, so a chargeback and return can always be processed for that order. I'm
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by sounders 14y ago
The US has been extremely slow to adopt this technology despite, the adoption rates around the world. Visa and MasterCard have set a date of 2015 to push merchants to have their checkout terminals be EMV compliant or face higher fraud liabi
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by sounders 14y ago
Who is your merchant provider? I'm curious because I've heard similar rants about many products that process payments for merchants- Paypal, Amazon Payments, Google Checkout, etc.. I'm interested how your provider is able to circumvent all
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by sounders 14y ago
I'm confused by that statement in the video. From my experience bloggers don't have the same level of importance as investors and engineers do. Can anyone explain how bloggers are so necessary that "none of it would work if there wasn't eac
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by sounders 14y ago
I agree with you about linking Apple and Chinese. When I think of the Apple labor force I automatically think Foxconn, which leads to thoughts of labour camps and worker suicide, not that that's the whole picture of course.