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  • **FILE** This March 21, 2011, photo shows a GoPayment machine attached to a smartphone used by the members of Girl Scout Troop 70024 as a way to accept credit card payments for cookie sales at Parkside Elementary School in Solon, Ohio. (Associated Press)

    Girl Scout cookies go high-tech: Smartphone sales

    The Girl Scouts were selling their cookies the old-fashioned way, pulling a creaky-wheeled red wagon laden with Thin Mints and Samoas down a suburban street. But the affair took a decidedly 21st-century twist when, with a polite smile, one of the girls pulled out a smartphone and inquired: "Would you like to pay with a credit card?"

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  • "We saw people that wanted to take electronic payments and just didn't have a way to do it," said Chris Hylen, vice president of Intuit's payments business. "It's been the fastest-growing part of our business."

    Girl Scout cookies get a high-tech charge →

  • "We saw people that wanted to take electronic payments and just didn't have a way to do it," said Chris Hylen, vice-president of Intuit's payments business. "It's been the fastest-growing part of our business."

    Girl Scout cookies go high-tech: Smartphone sales →

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