Archives for January, 2014

As many as 40 million Target customers hacked over the holidays when thieves got into their credit and debit card.

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Some employers might think that setting limitations on things like mobile devices and Internet access is the answer to get

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More than 60 percent of online shoppers returned or exchanged at least one item. About 95 percent of customers will go

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Ecommerce and mobile-based e-commerce have grown significantly this year. Cyber Monday ecommerce sales, as an example, reached $1.735 billion originating

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will now offer the embedded payments service to customers that use the Samsung Galaxy S4

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A “cryptocurrency” is a peer-to-peer, decentralized, digital currency. Cryptocurrencies offer the potential for merchants to one day break the stranglehold

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Myths about seniors abound. Among them are that most seniors are poor, they don’t shop online, and they only buy

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Most of the world has already migrated to EMV chip technology. EMV, as commentators have noted, affects not only hardware

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Australia & New Zealand Banking Group plans to use voice biometrics for authorizing large-value transfers to external bank accounts via

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Notably after the Japanese tsunami…the Hungarian Red Cross has used mobile technology to raise funds for disaster relief, but for

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