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sounders

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    Comment #14896280

    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 vehicl…

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    Comment #6581921

    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 sa…

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    Comment #6581906

    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. Als…

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    Comment #5744940

    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 …

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    Comment #4731463

    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 appl…

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    Comment #4731437

    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 charg…

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    Comment #4731414

    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 ch…

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    Comment #4629868

    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..…

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    Comment #4629841

    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 …

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    Comment #4610931

    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, n…