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• A small group of protesters came to the Ottawa, Ontario, headquarters of e-commerce services provider Shopify Inc. Thursday to deliver a stack of 140,000 signatures from people opposed to Shopify’s business dealings with alt-right news service Breitbart News, which runs its Web store on Shopify’s platform.
• Roberts Hawaii, a tour-bus and airport-shuttle operator, and Turtle Bay Resort, a Hawaiian hotel, are warning customers to watch for unauthorized charges after finding malware on their systems. Roberts Hawaii says orders placed between July 30, 2015 and Dec. 14, 2016 may have been affected. For Turtle Bay, the date range is Oct. 23 to Dec. 22, 2016. Both entities say they have taken measures to remove the malware.
• Sage Group plc announced an agreement to acquire Fairsail, a U.K.-based company specializing in cloud-based people-management software for businesses. Sage will combine Fairsail with its payroll, accounting, and payments-processing operations. Terms were not disclosed. Klarna, a Sweden-based online-payments processor, is a Fairsail client.
• Bitcoin is on a roll. Its market price finished above $1,200 on March 1 for the first time, and reached a record $1,259, according to data from Blockchain.info, which averages prices across all major Bitcoin exchanges. The cryptocurrency’s price has now stayed above the $1,000 level 17 days in a row, and 26 of the last 29 days.
• TMG Financial Services reported that 11 credit unions renewed their credit card processing agreements with TMG.
