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GoFro And Taking The Treasure Hunting Out Of Travel
 
India's GoFro has a simple enough goal: to become the country’s largest and most successful travel marketplace. Simple, maybe, but not necessarily easy. The platform does have two big advantages, though: First, the market for online travel booking in India is less developed than it could be — and CEO Amitabh Misra knows eCommerce there well as his last gig was as Snapdeal's CTO. Second, with $10 million in new funding, GoFro said it is ready to literally take on the world.
 
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How could Google benefit from acquiring smartphone maker HTC? What is the company doing to help out in the wake of Hurricane Harvey — and will it do the same for Irma? Is Google Home safe from hackers? Will the company pay that anti-trust fine from the European Commission? This and everything else you may have missed in this week’s Google tracker.  Read More...

 
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Real Innovation Solves Today’s Problems, Not Tomorrow’s
 

Surcharge-free ATMs: an idea that makes you wonder, “Now why didn’t I think of that?” But when innovator Douglas Miraglia, president of MoneyPass, came up with the idea, its success was anything but guaranteed. PYMNTS caught up with Miraglia to find out how he got his inspiration, where he thinks the payments space is headed and what young innovators would do well to heed.  Read More...

 
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NEW REPORT: Expedia Explores The Payments World
 

Travel now, pay later? In this month’s PYMNTS Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™, powered by WePay, Wilson Wang, director of checkout and payment products for online travel platform Expedia, explains why the company is doing everything from offering payment plans to accepting foreign currency in an attempt to make travel payments as painless as possible for its customers and its hotel and airline partners. Find that, along with headlines and rankings of 72 providers, inside the hot-off-the-presses Tracker.  Read More...

 
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