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MasterCard to release credit card with display and keypad in 2013

MasterCard to release credit card with display and keypad in 2013
  • Posted November 8, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Near Field Communication has been at the forefront of payment technology for a couple of years now. We’ve seen the tech ship on multiple smartphones to facilitate paying for things at places like gas stations and convenience stores. A new…

PayPal inks deal with Discover to further expand US retail presence

PayPal inks deal with Discover to further expand US retail presence
  • Posted August 23, 2012, 9:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • PayPal is expanding their presence in the retail sector thanks to a new deal stuck with Discover. The partnership will be the second with a major financial institution as the e-commerce business already has a deal where users can access…

Bitcoin-funded debit/credit card coming in 6-8 weeks

Bitcoin-funded debit/credit card coming in 6-8 weeks
  • Posted August 21, 2012, 7:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Users of electronic cash protocol Bitcoin might soon have another way to access and spend funds. During a recent IRC chat with BitInstant co-founder Charlie Shrem, it was revealed that his company was 6-8 weeks away from launching a Bitcoin-funded…

Hacker claims to have broken into nearly 80 banks, provides evidence

Hacker claims to have broken into nearly 80 banks, provides evidence
  • Posted June 19, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • A self-proclaimed grey hat hacker known as Reckz0r claims to have accessed nearly 80 large banks, collecting a massive amount of customer data in the process. To verify these claims, the hacker made a plain text file available on AnonFiles.com…

Visa drops Global Payments amidst data breach, 1.5 million affected

Visa drops Global Payments amidst data breach, 1.5 million affected
  • Posted April 2, 2012, 5:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • Visa has announced that they are dropping Global Payments as a service provider following a data breach that was publically reported last week. It is now believed that as many as 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard accounts in North America…

Moneto brings mobile payments to iPhone, Android through NFC add-on

Moneto brings mobile payments to iPhone, Android through NFC add-on
  • Posted January 11, 2012, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News With Video
  • The idea of using our smartphone to pay for products, although already widely implemented in some countries, is just starting to gain traction in the U.S. with the launch of Google Wallet. It'll be a while before any mobile wallet…

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