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Innoviti introduces Cloud Payment Reconciliation technology to provide single integrated view of wireless instore payments
Read Article Payment solutions provider, Innoviti Payment Solutions, announced that after successful pilots, it will now start extending its newly introduced cloud-based reconciliation technology to full-service restaurants, that require payments to be collected at a customer’s table with automatic reconciliation with the bill. For modern retail outlets, tight front-end integration between the store billing system …
Afghans view U.S.-Taliban peace deal with mix of disbelief and anger
The deal, signed Feb. 29 in Qatar’s capital, also leaves the Afghan government in a weakened position as it prepares for its own round of talks with the Taliban, according to the Afghan officials and analysts. The provisions included a commitment to a controversial prisoner swap that robs the government of key leverage before the …
The Guardian view on entrepreneurs’ relief: the UK’s worst tax break | Editorial | Opinion
The respected thinktank the Resolution Foundation calls it “the worst tax break” in the UK. Analysts at the Institute for Fiscal Studies can find no evidence that it does what ministers claim. Yet entrepreneurs’ relief has cost the public nearly £25bn in just over a decade. At next week’s budget, the first of Boris Johnson’s …
NPR Poll Finds Vast Income Gap On Republican View Of Universal Health Coverage : NPR
A new poll finds that rich people are much happier with their lives than poorer people. They’re also far more likely to say they’ve achieved the “American dream,” that they’re satisfied with their education, and that they’re not anxious about the future. Many people could have guessed all of that without a poll, of course. …
Men arrested for series of car break-ins in Mountain View
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KRON) — Car break-ins happen all the time in the Bay Area and it isn’t often that victims get their items back, but that’s exactly what happened in Mountain View on Thursday. Eight victims from crimes spanning three cities got their bags and laptops back after detectives arrested two suspects with auto burglary …
Crews working water main break in Ocean View area
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Norfolk Public Utilities crews are responding to a water main break in the Ocean View area. The break is at Fishermans Road and Bayview Blvd. Public Utilities didn’t have additional details when first contacted by WAVY, but there have been reports of a sinkhole in the area. The department says more …
Satellite constellations: Astronomers warn of threat to view of Universe
Image copyright Marco Langbroek/SatTrackCam Leiden Image caption Astronomers are concerned that the bright satellites could hinder their research Astronomers are warning that their view of the Universe could be under threat. From next week, a campaign to launch thousands of new satellites will begin in earnest, offering high-speed internet access from space. But the first …
View: Breaking the resource curse
By Amit Kapoor India has an abundance of mineral deposits. The country is the second-largest producer of steel; the third-largest producer of coal; the fourth-largest producer of iron and has the fifth-largest bauxite reserves in the world. Overall, India produces over ninety different types of minerals. A country with such a rich resource base should …
View Royal structure fire leaves Four Mile House Restaurant with ‘extensive damage’ – Victoria News
A structure fire at Four Mile House Restaurant in View Royal on Tuesday afternoon has left the building with substantial damage. Crews from View Royal Fire Rescue, Langford Fire Rescue, Colwood Fire Department and Esquimalt Fire Department attended the scene. View Royal Fire Chief Paul Hurst said crews were called to the pub shortly after …
The Observer view on the World Athletics Championships: a sport in crisis | Observer editorial | Opinion
Major sports events tend to follow the same, inviolable narrative. In the build-up, the projections are universally doom-laden. Media reports focus on the dubious circumstances under which the host city was awarded the prize (the process, whichever sport we’re discussing, is always dubious). There are invariably problems with the stadiums, which are either behind schedule …
