by Elma Jane

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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Web traffic estimates from several trend analysis firms including comScore, predict that mobile Internet traffic will outpace traffic from desktop or

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It can be difficult for travel agencies to choose a merchant services provider. The credit card processing industry generally categorizes

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Results of a new survey on overall mobile use by consumers has several ramifications for payments using mobile devices. The

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Online consumers generate an avalanche of data.Companies such as Amazon and Target have used Big Data for years. It’s the secret

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