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Microsoft Expected to Ditch MS Points in Favor of Real Currencies This Year

A brand new report claims that Microsoft will ditch its proprietary MS Points virtual currency, used on the Xbox Live, Zune or Windows Phone Marketplaces, in favor of real world currencies. Microsoft’s MS Points haven’t really been loved by its customers, as they involved buying cards with codes for MS P...

24 January 2012
06:51 GMT

Google Wallet to Become the Payment Method for Android Market

Android users who make purchases from the Android Market have now at their disposal Google's Checkout payment method for paying for the purchases they make while in the storefront, but that should change soon. Recently, Google announced that Google Wallet will eat up Checkout, and that it will become the defa...

18 November 2011
02:44 GMT

Hitman Scams Extort Money from Victims

Security researchers warn that 419 scams that try to extort money from individuals by threatening their lives are back in use.In one sample recently spotted by security experts from Symantec, recipients are contacted by an alleged hitman who calls himself Don Gunshot.According to the message, he was hired to kill the...

5 July 2011
14:24 GMT

Cash Doesn't Buy Junk Food

A new research published in the Journal of Consumer Research tried to find out how come people who pay with credit or debit cards buy more unhealthy foods than those who pay with cash.To find out the reason behind this behavior, the authors carried out an analysis of the shopping behavior of 1,000 families, over a si...

19 October 2010
04:27 GMT

New Author Payment Rates Coming on Envato Marketplaces This Fall

On their 4 year birthday, the folks running Envato have surprised authors by announcing a dramatic increase in possible revenue starting with October 1st. The rates will allow established and new users alike to earn more money from their items put up for sale on Envato's marketplaces.After their Birthday Bundle,...

25 August 2010
03:03 GMT

PayPal Supports Credit Card Payments without Registration

New features introduced by the Paypal Adaptive Payment API will allow web developers to integrate PayPal e-payment methods without forcing users in creating or using a PayPal account.The feature called, Guest Payments, permits developers to quickly process credit card payments in the same secure format as before. The...

26 June 2010
08:35 GMT

Visa Acquires CyberSource with Two Billion Dollar Tag

With a gross estimation of 25% of all US online money transfers going through one of CyberSource's services, the company's management opted to sell their stock to Visa Inc., a worldwide known credit card company.CyberSource is mainly known for running Authorize.Net, but has a big presence in developing and ...

21 April 2010
10:28 GMT

SunTrust to Enhance Services via Fiserv's Mobile Money

Fiserv Inc., one of the top providers of solutions for financial services technology, has announced its collaboration with SunTrust Banks, Inc., through which the latter is set to use the Mobile Money application from Fiserv in order to offer their clients a wider access to their mobile financial services. In additio...

22 March 2010
10:51 GMT

PayPal Blocks All Transactions to and from India

PayPal has suspended all payments and transfers in India, though the eBay-owned payments platform was vague on the reason. The company says that there are "questions" that need to be addressed before enabling the service in the country again. What those questions were or how long the block will last the company woul...

9 February 2010
05:54 GMT

iPod touch POS May See Adoption Beyond Apple’s Stores

Apple has recently made a few changes in its retail organizations, including new positions, and the addition of new equipment. The iPod touch-based point-of-sale system (POS) is one of them and, apparently, it has caught the eye of small businesses, larger chains and system integrators. According to tipsters talking...

3 December 2009
03:14 GMT

hi5 Coins Payment Platform Leverages OpenSocial Virtual Currency API

As you may know, in March 2008 a web-based platform called OpenSocial was launched, designed to unify hi5 payments via a single platform meant to collect micro-transactions on the social networking web property. Since the introduction of OpenSocial, developers have been laboring to find a method to integrate and offe...

6 June 2009
04:01 GMT

Nokia and Visa Develop Payment Applications for Next Generation Mobile Devices

Today in New York, Visa Inc. and Nokia have announced plans for an innovative payment method. Visa payment and payment related services like contactless and remote payments, money transfer, alerts and notifications, will become possible solely using Nokia's mobile phones. The service is expected to become availa...

25 September 2008
11:26 GMT

PayPal to Be Closed for One Hour

PayPal, one of the most popular websites on the Internet and surely the most used service for online payments and money transfers, has announced that the service would be unavailable on May 29 for approximately one hour due to scheduled maintenance. Jim McGuire, vice president of network operations at PayPal, said th...

23 May 2008
16:41 GMT

Innovative Tube Phone from Nokia and O2

There's no doubt that mobile phones have a continuously increasing role in people's everyday life, providing from various multimedia features or business functionalities to payment options. Leveraging on the fact that almost everyone has a mobile phone, Transport For London (TFL) wants to create a handset ...

27 November 2007
06:08 GMT

AdSense Adopts Western Union to Send Payments to Users

A new option appeared in some of the AdSense accounts, allowing the registered members who got it to receive their payments through the Western Union QuickCash service. At this time, the service is available only in a limited number of countries including China, Romania, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Philippin...

28 September 2007
09:13 GMT

UK Fights Against Online Fraud!

In case you haven't noticed from the news, let me tell you this - The United Kingdom is one of the countries with a lot of problems regarding cyber-security. But now, they have finally done something against Internet fraud. Way to go! Visa as well as MasterCard have released a new type of credit cards that make ...

3 September 2007
07:03 GMT

Paying by Fingerprint

Have you ever been in a situation where you are at the counter, loaded with bags of goodies, and you realize you left your wallet at home? Oh, the embarrassment...This story is about to become history, because soon biometric scanning to make transactions is expected to be only one of many new methods that are part o...

11 April 2007
09:48 GMT


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