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Investment Tracker, October 29
October 29, 2014

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Americans Top Fear: Credit Card Data Getting Stolen
October 29, 2014

Fears are driven by an intersection of a horrible outcome and the perceived probability of it happening to that person. So when Gallup this month surveyed 1,017 U.S. adults in the U.S. and asked what their greatest fears were, having credit card data stolen by...

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Retailers Worried About Bargain Hunters, Again
October 29, 2014

Surveys are predicting more shoppers in the malls this holiday season and a 4.1 percent rise in holiday spending. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, once again, such surveys don’t predict margin and if those shoppers gravitate only to the lowest margined...

Mobile Commerce
New Tools Counter Shopping Cart Abandonment
October 29, 2014

Adobe has upgraded its shopping cart abandonment package to deliver realtime data and the ability to immediately reach out to that shopper. The earlier version had a 24-hour lag, according to a story in VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

MasterCard Surprises World Series Fans With Apple Pay
October 29, 2014

Throughout the 2014 baseball season, MasterCard has been surprising fans with Priceless Surprises. After Apple Pay's recent launch, MasterCard, together with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, surprised MLB fans by enabling the new payment technology at both the Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants...

Financial Inclusion
Finding Middle Ground in Payments for 2015
October 29, 2014

What every bank, credit union, end-user organization and payments disruptor like Apple is chasing right now is the ability to enable consumers to conduct commerce on devices connected to the internet. But The Payments Authority CEO Amy Smith says financial institutions will have to make...

Mobile Commerce
Neiman Marcus Mobile Innovation
October 29, 2014

High-end fashion retailer Neiman Marcus is rolling out a new feature in its mobile app that won’t just let customers search for products they like, but lets them buy the products seconds after they see an item on the street, according to Internet Retailer. Get...

Mobile
Euro Telcos Push Back Against iPad SIM
October 29, 2014

Apple’s newest iPads come with a universal SIM card that’s designed to let users switch between mobile carriers without physically swapping SIMs. That should prove popular with customers, but it’s not so appealing to U.S. carriers — and in Europe, the virtual SIM is a...

Are Apple Store Sales Falling?
October 29, 2014

Just a week after the much balleyhooed launch of Apple Pay, Apple quietly filed its annual report on Monday (Oct. 27) — and not everything is looking quite as healthy as the new mobile payment system, according to VentureBeat. Get the Full Story Complete the...