The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee warns that unemployment benefits are still too low Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJobseeker payments should be raised to 90% of the age pension and indexed to prevent people going “without life’s essentials”, the government’s poverty experts say.The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee released its pre-budget report on Friday, warning that jobseeker and other...
Vodafone Group used World Earth Day to focus on mobile device recycling, encouraging people to tackle a problem which the GSMA estimates amounts to 5 billion redundant phones.
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Brightwell has launched a platform designed to let businesses deliver cross-border payments to their customers. The new Latitude platform does so based on the customer’s currency, location and payment method, the global payments technology company said in a Tuesday (April 23) press release. “Businesses across a variety of industries have made substantial investments in prioritizing the customer experience, striving to […]
Standard Chartered has partnered with Visa to facilitate cross-border B2B payments for the bank’s corporate clients. The bank has joined the Visa B2B Connect multilateral payment network and has become Visa’s new settlement partner for a set of currencies, the companies said in a press release emailed to PYMNTS. The solution will launch first for clients of Standard Chartered […]
Car traders and other professional dealers will no longer be able to accept cash payments of more than €3,000 from 2026, if finance minister Steven van Weyenberg and justice minister Dilan Yesilgöz have their way. The ministers plan to press ahead with legislation to outlaw large cash payments even though parliament declared the issue to be “controversial” and so out of bounds to the caretaker cabinet. However, if the measure, designed to cut down on money laundering, is not implemented
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Frank Wright once again joins Father Charles Murr and John-Henry Westen on this week's episode of Faith & Reason.
Anti-vax legislation by New Hampshire Republicans has cleared one house and appears headed for the governor's desk. Republican-controlled New Hampshire appears poised to become the first in the nation to remove restrictions requiring children to receive a base level of vaccination against things like measles, polio, and the mumps to gain admittance to public school. — Read the rest
Amazon.com said on Wednesday it plans to push its cashierless shopping technology into more third-party stores this year, even as it reduces its reliance on the technology in its own. The online retailer said about 140 stores use the system, known as Just Walk Out, which allows customers to scan an app to enter a store and leave with their items without paying at a register. Amazon will more than double that number this year. The company refuted a report by tech site The Information this month...
Flatpay plans to use the money to expand into new markets in Europe and to build out more products alongside the point-of-sale and card terminals that it sells today. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
YouTube's ad blocker crackdown is not yet over, as it now targets third-party apps. The YouTube ad blocker crackdown that began in 2023 is not yet over, and while the company already effected the changes against these kinds of services, it is now moving against third-party apps that provide this feature.