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The Venture Investing Road Less Traveled: Funding Enablers, Not Challengers

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It’s a principle that Rosen said has become even more important, as payments have moved well past retail and toward enabling a better, more secure online user experience. Chief among those verticals will be healthcare, with particular attention paid to integrated and embedded payments functionality on offer from software providers.

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Sleepless In Payments

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A fundamental question facing the payments industry now is the degree to which software is truly “eating the POS,” or whether the hardware/software bundle that is enabling checkout is just different. Different because of the new opportunities that embedding payments in software creates – and destroys.