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PaymentsSource Payments Update Featuring HomeATM

Featured for Friday July 9th, 2010HomeATM Shifts Focus To Mobile MerchantsPaul Turgeon, president of Payments & Processing Consultants Inc., believes HomeATM’s device is well suited for line-busting situations and for mobile merchants in general. “There are lots of those kind of merchants who are spending a lot of money equipping themselves to take credit cards,” he adds. [FREE] Read More >>Canada's Countdown To EMV...

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High-Profile Players Sign on to Promote Mobile-Merchant Technology(July 8, 2010 Digital Transactions News)As the young market for mobile payments on smart phones takes shape, industry players are scrambling to pair up with world-famous partners with massive numbers of consumer and business customers. Read MoreLearn More about the only PCI 2.1 Certified Mobile PED in the indus...

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MasterCard (MA) Not As 'Priceless' As Rival Visa (V)

Editor's Note: If anyone is interested, I'll trade my 1000 shares of Visa for 1000 shares of MasterCard all day long...in fact, all weekend long!July 9, 2010 11:04 AM EDT Shares of credit card processor MasterCard (NYSE: MA) are being left out of today's rally after Goldman Sachs said its prefers the company's rival Visa (NYSE:V). Goldman Sachs' analysts said they like Visa more because of a...

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CFSI to Host Symposium at U.S. Capitol

Washington, July 8, 2010 -- The Center for Financial Services Innovation will convene a symposium of the country’s foremost experts in financial transaction and savings products for lower-income, underbanked consumers at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, July 14. The Symposium will feature general purpose reloadable prepaid cards and how they can meet the financial needs of millions of Americans who are either unable or choose not to use traditional...

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Chief Benefactors In Debit Likely To Change With Final Reform Bill

ISO & Agent Weekly | Thursday, July, 2010By Kate FitzgeraldA year or so from now, merchants likely will be paying less to accept debit cards, and financial institutions will be earning less revenue issuing them. And some issuers may have to reacquaint themselves with PIN-debit brands not associated with Visa Inc. or MasterCard Worldwide. These are among the results likely to transpire if Congress in the coming days signs...

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NTP Sues Apple, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Motorola for Infringement of Wireless Email Patents

DONALD E. STOUT,PARTNERIntellectual Property LawRICHMOND, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- NTP Incorporated, the company founded by Tom Campana, the inventor of wireless email, yesterday filed lawsuits against Apple, Inc., Google Inc., HTC Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and Motorola, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for infringing NTP's eight patents related...

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Americans' PINs at Risk for Skim Skams

Americans' PINs at risk for scams New places and unfamiliar ATMs are fertile ground for 'skimming'By Lucy Soto For the AJCAs you head into summer travel mode, think about arming yourself against more than just the sun and the mosquitoes. Watch out for ATMs. Grabbing that extra bit of traveling cash in a new city can turn into a costly headache.Americans are still traveling: About 176 million passengers will take to the...

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