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Tag: mobile payments
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What Merchants Can Do to Fight Credit Card Fraud
The latest figures from the Ponemon Institute and IBM 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study show an ongoing increase in the cost of a data breach. For companies that participated in the study, the number rose to $3.79 million. And that’s just the tangible cost.
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Starbucks Spits in My Mobile Payments Latte
A confession: I am not convinced about mobile payments. It’s not that I am a Luddite. The obvious convenience and benefits of being able to pay for the stuff of life directly from the device typically strapped to my hip is enough for me.
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Your Customers Are Cheap and Cashless, But Love Online Shopping
The typical US consumer likes to shop online, regards free shipping as better than fast shipping and thinks cash is passé for just about everything other than buying a snack from a street vendor.
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Is Your Business Capitalizing On This $1T E-Commerce Market?
With a population of about 1.3 billion and an emerging middle class, China is the largest market in the world. In the past few decades, it has emerged as a global economic powerhouse.
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7 Trends to Watch to Stay Ahead of the Digital Era Curve
This is the time of year when you start seeing a mad dash of articles looking back on the trends of 2014 and what to expect in 2015.
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5 Tech Trends You Need to Know Right Now
Security, infrastructure intelligence and data analytics will be among the hottest business technology trends of 2014, according to a research paper commissioned by UK IT services firm Advanced 365. The paper, written by technology analyst David Smith, chief executive, Global Futures and Foresight with Advanced 365, identifies the most
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A Look Back: Mobile Enterprise Trends from 2013
Mobile enterprise trends gathered momentum in 2013 as the smartphone and tablet juggernaut rolled from the consumer space into the enterprises. Vendors tweaked their operating systems to be more enterprise friendly as the bring your own device (BYOD) concept knocked down more doors.
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Banks, Mobile Carriers Treading Carefully with Digital Wallets #appsworld
Mobile payments may become a US$ 90 billion industry by 2017, but banks and mobile carriers in the US are moving slowly on things like digital wallet technology in mobile phones.
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Gartner Predicts Nearly 62% Increase in Mobile Payment Transactions
Gartner says that 2012 mobile payment transaction values will increase 61.9% over 2011 and surpass US$ 171.5 billion. Increase in Payments, Users According to Gartner, the number of mobile users taking advantage of mobile payment options will reach 212.2 million this year, compared with 160.5 million in 2011.
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Mobile Enterprise: iPhone 4 Dominates Flickr, Android Catching Up
This week, the line between enterprise tool and child's play gets very blurry. The iPad 2 is now available at Toys R Us stores nationwide. Now, back to our regularly scheduled news...
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