More that a dozen retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven have joined forces to form the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a mobile-payments network that will compete with Google and Isis. The retailers claim that they ...
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Three widely deployed payment terminals have vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to steal credit card data and PIN numbers, according to a pair of security researchers from penetration testing firm MWR InfoSecurity in the U.K. The ...
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Money managers boosted net length in NYMEX crude for the reporting week ending December 18, as front-month crude futures received a slight boost. The increase in net length came as money managers increased longs by 3,457 lots, while ...
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Alternative payments solution provider AP Solutions has added DirectPay US to its cadre of payment options. The new service, free of charge to all AP Solutions clients, arms online businesses with the ability to process noncredit-card ...
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 ...
Recent PCI Security Standard Council's North American Community Meeting revealed PCI compliance changes. PCIHosting.com helps individuals and organizations prepare for the changes. New standards in PCI compliant services and ...
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The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has released guidance making PCI compliant hosting a must for secure mobile transactions. CHICAGO, IL, November 22, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The PCI SSC recently issued best ...
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1. What's "guanxi"? Guanxi is regarded as the central idea in Chinese society with long historical and cultural roots. It is understood and utilized by virtually every Chinese person in greater or lesser measure. Understanding how the ...
Tags: Focus Vision, Culture, China, Customs
1. What are the main products for export in China? In 2010, export of electromechanical products rose to 933.43 billion dollar, rising at 30.9 percent. This occupied 59.2% of total export volume in China, among which export of electronic ...
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ZeroLag, the first name in managed hosting, is pleased to announce it has joined Magneto eCommerce's Hosting Partner Program as a Platinum Partner, the highest of the three-tier levels. The program recognizes the strategic role that ...
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Mobile payment systems in the U.S. have been long on promise and short on reality. The launch Monday of the Isis system in Salt Lake City and Austin will promote the adoption of mobile payments among users of nine smartphones that support ...
Tags: mobile payment systems, U.S., Isis system, smartphones, NFC
Former RBS payment processing division WorldPay will reach a major IT milestone this month on its journey to stand on its own after it was sold in 2010. In December 2010, Advent International and Bain Capital acquired WorldPay for over ...
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MasterCard is testing new ways to make online transactions more secure with its PayPass application and a mobile phone, including using QR codes to secure the transactions. The card company is cooperating with Dutch bank ING Group on a ...
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Amazon.com, a latecomer to Japan's e-reader market, is slashing its Kindle prices in the country before it has shipped a single device. Just two weeks after announcing it would launch its first Japanese-language e-reader, the company cut ...
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Nancy Stanek is used to predictions of her toy shops' demise. In the 1970s, catalogs were expected to be the death of her Toys et Cetera stores. Then it was the big-box discounters such as Wal-Mart and Target. More recently, the big, ...
Tags: Toys, Toys et Cetera stores, Nancy Stanek, toy sellers