Many electronic payments will fail in Europe next month, unless the deadline for switching to the new SEPA payment system is extended, the European Commission warned Thursday. By 1st February, banks and businesses within the Single Euro ...
Yahoo, has acknowledged that its service sites were used by hackers to enslave massive numbers of ordinary PCs who did so to generate bitcoins, and by extension, real earnings. Ads were placed on Yahoo web sites that when clicked by users, ...
Fang Ying’s December wish list of Louis Vuitton handbags and Chanel perfume is not only for Christmas. Fang, 33, a secretary working in Shanghai, writes one every month for friends and family traveling abroad. Fang is not alone. ...
Tags: handbags, perfume, Luxury Spending
CareFusion, a global medical technology company, has announced multiple new technologies across its device and software platforms to help improve the safety, efficiency and cost of intravenous (IV) medications to enhance enterprise-wide ...
Tags: technology, health, medicine
B2C E-Commerce has benefitted from the growth of the middle class in Brazil, but consumers from lower income groups also have begun to be comfortable shopping online. There were over 40 million online shoppers in Brazil in H1 2013, with the ...
Tags: Online Market, Apparel
Systems giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced plans to migrate its mission-critical HP NonStop technology to the Intel x86 server architecture, providing customers with an alternative to Intel Itanium-based systems. At the same time - ...
Tags: HP, Computer Products, software
US-based Health Systems International has completed the acquisition of The Reclaim Group (TRG) effective October 15, 2013. The agreement marks the ninth tuck-in acquisition Health Systems International has completed in a five year period, ...
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Clinverse has entered into a partnership with OmniComm Systems to combine its automated payment system 'ClinPay' with the latter's electronic data capture (EDC) system. The ClinPay system automates sponsor payments to clinical vendors, ...
Cook Medical has announced that effective October 1, 2013, its Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent qualifies for new-technology add-on payments under Medicare’s hospital inpatient prospective payment system. In order to qualify ...
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Customers can now pay at a specialist denim retailer's online shop using the new cross-channel payment system. Customers can now pay at the online checkout of his-jeans.de very easily - and in real time - using the new Yapital ...
Tags: Smartphones, Yapital
Second Sight Medical Products has secured Medicare coverage for its Argus II retinal prosthesis system (Argus II) designed to treat the patients affected with blindness from the untreatable orphan disease retinitis pigmentosa in both the US ...
Tags: Government Funding, Medicine
PayPal, which claims more than 128 million active accounts in 193 markets and 25 currencies around the globe, is now looking at outer space. As space tourism is expected to take off, PayPal is exploring what payment systems will be like ...
Tags: PayPal, Computer Products, payment systems
While mobile payments transform financial life in many less developed countries, retailers and payment providers in the U.S. and Europe are still trying to find the right incentives to drive adoption. The added convenience of mobile ...
Tags: Mobile Payments, credit cards
How do you build a blockbuster app in Myanmar, one of Asia's poorest countries? You go and ask a fortune teller for help, according to 25-year-old Htoo Myint Naung, a local developer. "There's a very famous fortune teller in Yangon, he is ...
Tags: Mobile Apps, Myanmar
Facebook is phasing out its Credits virtual payment system and will be transitioning all games integrated into the social network to a new local payments API by Sept. 12, the company announced Wednesday. The migration is part of a larger ...