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E-Retailer Adds Google Pay Option and other Digital Transactions News briefs

  • Online-shopping site jClub Inc. said its customers can check out with a single click on mobile or desktop devices using the Google Pay button. Google Pay is a 3-year-old mobile-payment service from Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit.
  • Facing growing concerns about privacy protections on its popular Venmo person-to-person payments service, executives at parent company PayPal Holdings Inc. executives are mulling removing the option to view and post public Venmo transactions, Bloomberg reported.
  • Seventy-three percent of small businesses want a single vendor for their payment-processing services, found Mercator Advisory Group’s third annual “2018 Small Business Payments and Banking Survey” of more than 2,000 small businesses.
  • ID-technology provider Entrust Datacard introduced Mobile Smart Credential, which allows employees to log into workstations using their mobile phones as a token of their identity.

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