Gartner today drastically lowered its forecast for the monetary payments that near field communication technology will provide in coming years, noting the struggles of Google Wallet and Isis mobile wallet services. Through 2017, NFC's ...
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Mobile payments startup Payleven has struck a deal that calls for Apple to start selling chip-and-PIN readers in its retail stores across Europe. Payleven's chip-and-PIN reader can be connected to an iPhone, iPad or Android device via ...
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With his H-1B fight over and lost to the tech industry, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote on the controversial immigration bill late last month. It was late in the ...
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The founder of Liberty Reserve, an online digital currency and payments system based in Costa Rica, has been arrested and charged with money laundering. Further reading Retailers looking to cut Visa and other 'middlemen' out of the ...
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With the full Senate starting its debate on a comprehensive immigration bill, Republican lawmakers in the House have released a plan of their own. The Skills Visa Act, by Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), isn't completely new and is based on ...
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The National Retail Federation and a broad cross-section of retailers asked a federal judge to reject a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees that drive up prices for consumers by $30 billion a year, ...
With the H-1B fight over and lost, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out, almost flailing in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote Tuesday. The tech industry had won. It was getting late in the day and the ...
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Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service. The hacker, who goes by the Twitter handle "@Reckz0r," wrote on Pastebin that Microsoft ...
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Quiksilver, Inc. announced the appointment of Nicholas Drake as Chief Marketing Officer, effective July 1. “We have reorganized our senior management structure in order to centralize key functions and responsibilities across the ...
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Donations to WikiLeaks since January have only been enough to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers, according to a transparency report. Donations have been declining substantially over the last two years, the ...
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The International Desalination Association (IDA) has selected San Diego, California, USA as the site for its 2015 World Congress. Dates are August 29-September 4, 2015 and the Congress will be held at the San Diego Convention Center. This ...
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The National Retail Federation announced that it will formally oppose a proposed settlement of a federal antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees charged by Visa and MasterCard, and urged retailers to carefully consider their own ...
The Senate immigration bill's H-1B restrictions have clearly upset Indian IT services providers. But sometimes being in a tough spot can prompt a company to find new ways of approaching problems, as Infosys is doing with a plan to use ...
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Google has announced the closure of Google Checkout, the online payment system used by small merchants, with users being given until 20 November to migrate to an alternative. Instead, Google will focus on Google Wallet, "a platform that ...
IDG News Service - Bitcoin is growing up. The virtual currency that caught the public's attention last month when its value zoomed briefly past $200 kicked off its first Silicon Valley conference Friday evening and shows no sign of losing ...
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