Starbucks said Friday it will update Passbook in iOS 6 at the end of September, presumably meaning it will integrate its existing Starbucks digital payment card into the new app for users to pay for coffee. In a tweet, the company said: ...
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The Home Depot says its rollout of a PayPal in-store payment system to 1,976 U.S. stores in March has generally been a success, though it notes that the system still accounts for a very small percentage of overall transactions. The ...
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Major high street banks are planning to impose new terms and conditions on customers that would make them squarely responsible for credit and debit card fraud. Further reading Seven-year glitch earns Bank of Scotland 4.2m fine Banks' IT ...
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Transport for London aiming to get NFC rolled out across entire network by the end of 2013 Commuters in London are now able to pay for their bus journeys using contactless payments. The development means Londoners can pay for their bus ...
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Walmart and American Express announced the launch of Bluebird, an alternative to debit and checking accounts designed to help consumers better manage and control their everyday finances. Bluebird has been developed for the tens of ...
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The dead can't speak for themselves. But they can apparently file U.S. tax returns. A new audit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has found the agency paid refunds to criminals who filed false tax returns, in some cases on behalf of ...
Tags: IRS, U.S.tax returns, TIGTA, ID theft
Approximately 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers belonging to South Carolina taxpayers were exposed after a server at the state’s Department of Revenue was breached by an international ...
Tags: credit cards, Data leak, protection, security breach, Social securtiy
Starbucks is investing $25 million in mobile payment venture Square, and will allow customers to use a Pay with Square smartphone application to buy coffee at its retail stores starting this fall, the companies announced Wednesday. As ...
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Hardly a day goes by without a story about the UK banking community messing up in some way or other. Some of the highest profile stories of the year have been around banks side-stepping regulation and fixing the markets for their own ...
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A cyber gang thought to be based in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is recruiting dozens of people to participate in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from 30 major U.S. banks, according to RSA. The organisers are thought ...
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ESET Middle East has sent out a warning to consumers advising them to be extra cautious and alert when shopping online this holiday season. Festivities, year–end bargains and Dubai Shopping Festival will see a rise in online ...
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Hibbett Sports Inc.,a sporting goods retailer,announced results for the third quarter ended October 27,2012. Third Quarter Results Net sales for the 13-week period ended October 27,2012,increased 9.6%to$202.9 million compared with$185.2 ...
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Computerworld-In the biggest data compromise of the year,Social Security Numbers(SSN)belonging to about 3.6 million residents in South Carolina have been exposed in an intrusion into a computer at the state's Department of Revenue. ...
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Barnes & Noble has removed PIN pad devices from all of its nearly 700 stores nationwide as a precaution after detecting evidence of tampering with the devices at 63 of its stores in eight states. It a statement Wednesday, the company ...
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WiMax broadband provider Clearwire said an email problem caused it to send out numerous messages about subscribers'account status in error on Friday. Various emails told subscribers that they had to update their payment details,that their ...