For the first time ever, the results of the pilot have been provided, offering insight into just how much traction this technology is seeing among consumers--and how far it is from entering the mainstream.READ»
MasterCard is finally pushing chip-and-PIN credit cards in the U.S. around a decade after the tech took off in Europe. It's the end of the magnetic strip, and the last gasp for your plastic credit card before the revolution comes.READ»
"I don't know of a handset manufacturer that isn't in process of making sure their stuff is PayPass ready," says Ed McLaughlin, head of emerging payments at MasterCard.READ»
Wave-and-pay is coming to a smartphone near you soon enough, but no one's exactly sure if it'll hit Apple's brand-new iPhones, to be unveiled tomorrow.READ»
Did you know Friday's named for Norse God Odin's wife, the goddess Frigg--queen of Asgard with prophetic powers? Interesting stuff. As is our summary of the early news:READ»
Politically motivated denial-of-service attacks of the kind that took down Amazon, Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal aren’t going to go away. Here’s how you should prepare.READ»
4Chan's Anonymous "hacktivists" have launched attacks on various websites wrapped up in the latest WikiLeaks chapters in revenge for what they see as illegal treatment of the whistleblower site and its head Julian Assange. Expect more of this in the coming years. READ»
MasterCard is eyeing the emerging middle classes of women in Asia and Cambodia is as good a test case as anywhere else -- and it offers a CSR branding point.READ»
In the wake of MasterCard's opening of its API to app writers, PayPal teases its future smartphone payment tech. With Visa in the game too, things could get feisty.READ»
Obopay is an payment system that works on your cell phone--kind of like a mobile PayPal. The service is cheap, easy to use, and fantastically convenient. Not only that, it's well-backed; today Nokia [NOK] announced it would funnel ...READ»
