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Higher One wins Innovator of Year honors from Connecticut business magazine

Monday, February 4, 2008

Higher One, which provides refund management services to higher education institutions, has won Innovator of the Year award from a New Haven, Conn. business journal. “So many times innovation is not so much about invention as it is about applying common sense to problem-solving,” Matthew Nemerson, president and CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council, says of Higher One. And, in Higher One’s case, innovation emerged from “some smart folks getting together and thinking about a market that needed to be served…” Read the complete story here[end] 

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the fall 2011 issue of CR80News.

The interactive feature allows for a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were sitting in front of you. Even flipping the pages looks great with this new feature.

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Higher One announced that it has added more than 25 new schools that will utilize its refund disbursement services and renewed contracts for 10 existing customers during the fourth quarter of 2011. The company now services about 200,000 more students.

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Connecticut’s Senate Transportation Committee voted unanimously to pass a bill asking the Department of Motor Vehicles to examine the implementation of RFID for motor vehicle registration, according to theNewspaper.com.

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Wired magazine has announced that its April 2012 issue contains the a magazine ad using NFC technology.

Wired readers can tap their NFC-enabled smart phone against a 2013 Lexus GS advertisement to automatically connect to a Web site where they can explore the automaker’s new in-car navigation and information service, Enfrom with Safety Connect.

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Higher One, a payment services company focused on higher education, has earned integration certification with Banner Digital Campus system with both of Higher One’s product offerings–the CASHNet suite of payment processing solutions and OneDisburse Refund Management service.

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Grants ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 are available to colleges and universities as part of Higher One’s financial literacy initiative designed to promote personal money management for college students.

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