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It’s almost here, just a few more hours and then you are FREE! Up until Tuesday that is. Why don’t you kick-start the relaxation with a little shopping at Macy’s? With their awesome Fourth of July sale you could find savings on anything from kitchen ware to outdoor furniture.

As always Macy’s is on top of their sales-game this holiday weekend offering 10% to 60% off on select items throughout the store.  Some sale items are exclusive to online, make sure to take note of this when shopping. If you are shopping online make sure to use the extra savings promotional code: FOURTH to get the discounts shown on the site. You will get an extra 15% off and free shipping site wide by using this promotional code, and an added 10% off on select departments.

Currently the big sale items can be found in their “Home Store” section, visit the online page to see what they have. Jazz up your

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Budget airlines and travel companies will have to stop hiding card fees for online payments or face enforcement action, the Office of Fair Trading announced today.

And it wants transaction fees for debit cards banned – as they are the online version of cash.

Airline, rail and ferry customers often have to click through multiple pages online before the payment charge is added to the end price.

Transaction booking fees are defended by companies, such as Ryanair, EasyJet and other budget airlines, as an administration fee associated with the cost of booking. However, they typically hugely outweigh the actual cost of processing a payment.

The OFT has now ordered firms to make payment charges clear in the headline price, to stop a surprise card surcharge at the online checkout.

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Fiserv Inc., an e-commerce management company catering to the financial services industry, will expand its digital payments business through a merger with CashEdge Inc. worth $465 million.

The deal, announced earlier this week, will help Fiserve expand its digital payments business by adding services like account-to-account transfers, account opening and funding, data aggregation and small business payments. The deal is expected to close by September of this year.

“CashEdge provides an attractive suite of solutions to further enable the delivery of a highly differentiated payments experience for financial institutions and their customers, as well as accelerate the coming P2P movement,” said Fiserv’s president and CEO Jeffery Yabuki in a statement. “Cash

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Tags: Business, Digital Payments, Digital Payments Business, Payments Business