Atlanta-based BitPay hooks up with PayPal to expand bitcoin adoption
Merchants using Payments Hub can create a BitPay merchant account. PayPal customers with a bitcoin wallet will then be able to pay with bitcoin for games, music, videos, news, ebooks, and other digital content. “PayPal's Payments Hub is the ideal first …
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Payments Processor Braintree Confirms Bitcoin Integration Rumors
In its blog post regarding the announcement, Coinbase indicated that Braintree businesses will need to open a new merchant account with Coinbase in order to complete the integration upon its release. However, Braintree merchants that want to get in …
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How Main Street Will Pay for Home Depot's Data Breach
When a credit-card company identifies fraud, it wipes the payment off the cardholder's account and notifies the merchant. Unless the store can prove the payment was authorized, the credit-card company debits money from a merchant's checking account, …
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Los Olivos AVA to expand wine profile of Santa Ynez Valley | Pacific Coast …
The federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has formally proposed establishing the Los Olivos District AVA, and 76 public comments have been received, all favorable. The wine appellation is expected to easily win approval, likely by the end of …
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Former winemaker Jeffry Hill pleads no contest to theft
Agents from the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, or TTB, met Hill in April 2014 and ordered him to turn over his wine-selling permits or have them revoked, according to a memo filed with the bankruptcy case. In addition to alleging …
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Former Winemaker Pleads No Contest in California Court
Jesus Hernandez, a former vineyard manager for Mr. Hill who turned him in to Del Dotto and later to authorities at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, said in a phone interview Tuesday that he had received a subpoena to testify before a …
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