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Apple Pay launches in Britain as hold-out Barclays signs up

July 14, 2015 creative apple, britain, francisco, increasing, internet, mobile-payments, news, report, said-on-tuesday, the-flagship, the-increasing, tuesday-twitter, twitter, ventura

Apple introduced its mobile payments service to Britain on Tuesday as Barclays confirmed its participation in the U.S. tech giant's move to capitalize on the increasing number of consumers who are comfortable making tap-and-go purchases

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Website with bogus Twitter report was registered July 10: ICANN

July 14, 2015 publisher assigned-names, false-report, internet, news, registrant, the-increasing, tuesday-twitter, twitter, york

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The web site carrying a false report out Tuesday on a Twitter takeover approach, bloomberg.market, was registered on July 10, according to a domain search on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. According to whois.icann.org, the registrant’s mailing address was listed as a Post Office Box in Panama.

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PlentyOfFish for Match.com owner at $575 million

July 14, 2015 publisher chief-executive, grew-the-site, internet, match-com, million-users, mobile-devices, the-increasing, the-services, vancouver, while-running

IAC/InterActive Corp’s Match Group, which owns Match.com, agreed to buy dating website PlentyOfFish for $575 million to push deeper into the lucrative mobile-based dating business, ahead of its planned public listing. Canada-based PlentyOfFish was launched in 2003 and has over 90 million registered users worldwide, 80 percent of whom access the services on mobile devices, according to its website. The company’s founder and Chief Executive Markus Frind grew the site to 10 million users on his own while running the company out of his Vancouver apartment.