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»
There's a pitched battle going on for control over the phone technology that'll transform how we pay for things in the (near?) future. Surprisingly one of the biggest players--with perhaps a lot to lose--has a very open approach.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»
Visa is trying out a low-tech location-based offers system with Gap that doesn't require check-ins or even a smartphone. It's clever, but basically is a testing ground for the coming wave of NFC purchases.READ»
The ad-fortified Wi-Fi-only e-reader will save you $25 but beg you to ultimately spend more with its sponsors. Then again, you're used to solicitations in your digital reading, aren't you? (Hint: Look up, right.)READ»
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»
So far, 2011 is shaping up as the year wireless payment tech changes how you'll buy everything, with Apple and Google leading the charge. Now Google's Eric Schmidt has just made his firm's big motivating factor clear: It's the ads and the money they bring in. Shocked?READ»
The hottest rumor about the 2011 iPhone 5 is that it'll include NFC wireless tech, ready to reinvent how you pay for stuff with credit cards. But Visa, master of existing card tech, is busy beating Apple to the punch with a new European trial of NFC on the iPhone.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»
Kiva, fresh off its expansion into higher education loans and one year after its entrance into the U.S. market, is moving full speed ahead to help Gulf Coast entrepreneurs recover from devastating setbacks.READ»
Most filmmakers toil in obscurity for years before getting the
chance to premiere at a world-class event like the London Film
Festival. Not so for the winner of Unilever's Consumer Creative
Challenge, a contest in which amateur ...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»
