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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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Many leading tech companies — including Google (Checkout), Yahoo (PayDirect), and Microsoft (Passport) — tried to compete with PayPal to gain a foothold in the online payments market, but ultimately shuttered these product lines in the mid-2000s. Source: Square. Business lending & corporate cards. Source: Stripe.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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Like secured credit cards offered at banks, it requires a one-time deposit between $100 and $1,000 at the time of the account opening, which then becomes the card’s credit limit. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014.