money
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Amazon Just Made Its Own Currency, Amazon Coins
Amazon has announced a new way for Kindle Fire users to buy stuff: Amazon Coins are a virtual currency that will come out in May and work for all app and in-app purchases on the Kindle Fire.
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US Retailers Can Now Charge You Extra For Credit Card Payments
So here’s something you should probably know if you shop online. Retailers in the US can charge up to 4 per cent extra on purchases made using a credit card.
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How Apple Sets Its Prices
Apple pricing is unlike almost every other brand in consumer tech: consistent across each and every retailer, and rarely discounted. How do Cook & Co manage to pull that off?
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Credit Card Skimmers Aren’t Just At ATMs Anymore
It used to be that you only had to be paranoid about credit card skimmers when using an ATM. But times have changed, and the bad guys have gotten so sophisticated that they’ve now created realistic but fake point of sale terminals that even print an authentic-looking receipt while they’re collecting your credit card number…