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Amex Invests $100 Million In Its Future: Digital Ecosystem, Not The Plastic Card

American Express, sensitive to the fast-moving winds blowing change into the digital payments scene, is investing $100 million to ensure its role in the future.READ»

Visa Is Making The E-Wallet Real

We've heard a lot about the notion of a digital wallet, but the tech itself seems slow to arrive. Now one credit giant is changing all that.READ»

American Express Launches "Serve" Digital Payments Platform, Paves Way for NFC

American Express is joining the ranks of old-school credit card companies that have realized they need to embrace the future of digital transactions. Its new Serve platform enables novel digital payments that threaten PayPal and pave the way for NFC.READ»

Visa Adds Person-to-Person Payments in U.S.

Visa has announced a new personal-payments system for U.S. card holders to send and receive funds. The system will greatly increase the scope of person-to-person digital payments globally, and represents new competition for scrappier (and more flexible?) contenders like Paypal. READ»

ROAM Brings Credit Card Reading to BlackBerrys, Outclasses Square Instantly

The encrypted ROAM credit-card reader, and associated e-commerce apps, has just been announced for RIM's BlackBerry platform, globally. With so many million BlackBerrys out there, and RIM's rep for security, the rival Square device is in trouble.READ»

'Square' iPhone Credit-Card Reader to Change the Banking Game?

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey just flicked on the public spotlight over his new venture: Square. It's a tiny plastic blob that gives smartphones the ability to act as secure credit card readers. It's clever, disruptive, but will ...READ»