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Financial services giant Worldline to acquire Ingenico, the point-of-sale terminal provider that controls 37% of the market globally, for $8.6B (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Financial services giant Worldline to acquire Ingenico, the point-of-sale terminal provider that controls 37% of the market globally, for $8.6B  —  Some consolidation is afoot among the payments behemoths of Europe, as they continue to go head-to-head with smaller, newer fintech companies eating … Financial services giant Worldline to acquire Ingenico,

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Profile of Klarna, a Sweden-based payments company offering post-purchase financing to consumers, as it launches in Australia after adding $200M in new funding (Julian Bajkowski/iTnews)

Julian Bajkowski / iTnews: Profile of Klarna, a Sweden-based payments company offering post-purchase financing to consumers, as it launches in Australia after adding $200M in new funding  —  Orchestrating a humane exit from dependency on legacy credit card tech.  —  When it comes to launching new tech at the Commonwealth Bank … Profile of Klarna,

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Gaana, the most popular music-streaming service in India, has 152M monthly users, over half of Spotify's global user base, double Apple Music's global count (Newley Purnell/Wall Street Journal)

Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: Gaana, the most popular music-streaming service in India, has 152M monthly users, over half of Spotify’s global user base, double Apple Music’s global count  —  Gaana, which means ‘song’ in Hindi, has used its large library of local music and low prices to beat the competition Gaana, the most

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Marvel gives first looks at Falcon and Winter Soldier, Loki, and WandaVision Disney+ series during Super Bowl

Marvel Studios used its big Super Bowl advertising spot to quickly tease three upcoming Disney+ series: Falcon and Winter Soldier, Loki, and WandaVision. There wasn’t much footage from any of the series, but there was enough glimpses to tease fans. The Falcon and the Winter Solider saw Anthony Mackie’s Sam “Falcon” Wilson pick up Captain

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