More than half of the world's top brands now view Instagram as a major part of their social strategy. Instagram has graduated from a'fun new social network'to an integral component of a brand's social strategy,according to Simply ...
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WASHINGTON --- The majority of merchant plaintiffs in a multibillion-dollar proposed antitrust settlement over credit card swiping fees now say they oppose the agreement with Visa, MasterCard and some of the nation's largest banks. "The ...
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Anonymous, the hacking collective, has ended its association with Wikileaks after Julian Assange's whistleblowing website erected a 'selective paywall' to help increase public donations to Wikileaks. Clicking to access a number of the ...
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Apple has been accused of holding back the advance of near field communication (NFC) technology with its decision to launch the iPhone 5, which went on sale today, without the much-rumoured NFC-based contactless payment facilities. But ...
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Many automated teller machines(ATMs)and point-of-sale(POS)terminals fail to properly generate random numbers that are required by the EMV protocol to securely authenticate transaction requests,according to a team of researchers from the ...
Tags: ATMs, POS terminal, EMV, secret encryption key, ARQC
MasterCard will work with mobile operator Everything Everywhere to develop mobile and digital payment solutions. The five-year partnership will see the two firms compete with the likes of O2, US-based Google Wallet, PayPal and Barclays ...
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MasterCard today announced it had signed a five-year deal with Everything Everywhere to develop mobile payment systems. MasterCard had already formed a partnership in 2009 with Orange, when it began work on QuickTap, the first near-field ...
Tags: MasterCard, five-year deal, mobile payment systems, Orange, QuickTap, NFC
PayPal and Discover said 7 million merchants accepting Discover credit cards will begin accepting payments for in-store purchases from PayPal's 50 million users starting in the second quarter of 2013. PayPal called the announcement an ...
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Despite a years-long upgrade of Australia's payment systems, fraudsters are still profiting, leaving a questionable record for a vast program to equip debit and credit cards with new security features. For several years, Australia has ...
Tags: Australia, payment system, Cybercrime, EMV payment card
CIOs are avid for advanced analytics offered by in-memory and in-database analytics, and open source big data technologies, like Hadoop. But take up of advanced analytics, chiefly forward-looking in nature, remains low, despite its ...