Etisalat and BlackBerry today announced an integrated carrier billing service for BlackBerry smartphone users in the UAE. It will allow Etisalat and BlackBerry customers to purchase applications on BlackBerry World, and pay directly with ...
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Payments giant Visa Europe has had its communications network upgraded by telecoms giant BT, in a move that BT claims has enabled the firm to process about €2m of payments every minute. The network provides connectivity for Visa ...
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After forcing out Tenpay.com and WeChat under Tencent Holdings Limited (SEHK: 0700), JD.com declared that it will end cooperation with Sina Weibo and Alipay.com. Analysts believed that JD.com is paving the way for independent payment ...
In order to adapt EU payments market to the opportunities of the single market and to support the growth of the EU economy, the European Commission adopted today a package including: • A new Payment Services Directive ("PSD2") and ...
MasterCard and Visa are now taking action against VPN providers, according to Swedish payment provider Payson. Customers of Payson have apparently received an email stating that VPN services are no longer able to accept Visa or MasterCard ...
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MasterCard didn't make a peep earlier this month when word leaked that Beijing had halted the company's transactions in renminbi. Leaked documents didn't show when the payments were terminated, but the central bank effectively stopped the ...
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Payments via mobile transactions will reach a value of over $235bn (£154bn) in 2013, as the number of mobile payment users worldwide reaches 245 million. That's according to research by Gartner, which suggests this year will see a ...
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Online payment service provider WorldPay has reduced the time it takes to perform analysis and management of firewalls from minutes to just 20 seconds, thanks to the tools provided by operational intelligence firm Splunk. That's what ...
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Microsoft today launched a third wave of 'Scroogled,' its attack ad-based campaign aimed at Google, this time highlighting what it said were privacy flaws in the latter's Android app store. "When you buy an Android app from the Google app ...
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US credit card giant Visa has announced a global alliance with Samsung to let shoppers make payments by waving their smartphones near a special reader. The deal, announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, could significantly ...
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PayPal is set to launch a chip-and-pin-based mobile payment service in the UK later this year, the firm has revealed, ahead of showcasing the technology at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This statement comes after the eBay-owned ...
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More than 1,500 credentials for PayPal accounts are on sale in an eShop-style website set up by cybercriminals. The site, discovered by Webroot's Danco Danchev, is selling 1,543 PayPal account details, 14 of which belong to UK customers ...
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From April 19 - 21, payment service provider AP Solutions will demo at booth #2451 their latest Smart Button payment technology to the visitors of the ad:tech conference. This year, the conference dubbed as "the event for digital ...
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Payment service provider AP Solutions introduces PagosBancarios to their lineup of global payment solutions. PagosBancarios allows consumers to use their own bank account to pay online for goods and services at merchants worldwide, with ...
Amazon Web Services confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service experienced degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others. AWS confirmed on its status page ...
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