BETTER-MOBILE-BANKING

According to The NZ Herald, PayPal is announcing a deal with asterCard where they offer a one off MasterCard number for use on websites tat accept MasterCard but don’t accept PayPal. Clever for PayPal, as its another way of insinuating itself into ecommerce, even when its not actually explicitly accepted.
Labels: mastercard, paypal

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Facebook is cool. Google wants it, Microsoft got a piece of it and Open Social have allowed other Social Networking sites to effectively use Facebook applications. But as Charis points out, all this information about people that is collected in one place and is publically available leads to the risk of fraud
Labels: Digital Identity, facebook, [...]

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PayPal has pottering along nicely. The steady growth of their off-eBay business means that they are sitting side-by-side with traditional online acceptance brands (Visa, MC, Amex, Discover, et. al.). Competitively, payments companies and their issuers have looked at this as an online phenomenon. Rightly so, as it has been. Online transaction volume is just north [...]

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