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Microsoft willing to pay for the right to hire more foreign workers

Microsoft willing to pay for the right to hire more foreign workers
  • Posted October 1, 2012, 9:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft
  • Microsoft has come up with a solution that they think could help divert a potential employment crisis: pay the government for the right to hire more highly skilled foreigners. Redmond is petitioning Congress to grant 20,000 new H-1B visas and…

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…

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…

Visa to take on PayPal with person-to-person payments in the US

Visa to take on PayPal with person-to-person payments in the US
  • Posted March 18, 2011, 11:07 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Industry News
  • Visa has announced that US consumers will soon be able to receive and send funds to any eligible Visa credit, debit, or prepaid account, anywhere in the world. Visa will no longer just enable payments at the point of sale,…

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