04 March 2014 The source code for Mt. Gox, the troubled virtual-currency exchange, has been leaked online by an anonymous hacker. Additionally, the person also disclosed to TechCrunch that he or she stole 20GB worth of customer information, including allegedly passport and other personal identification data. The...
04 MArch 201a Use of retail apps and websites in Italy jumped sharply last year, according to comScore’s latest Mobile Advisor Study. Traffic to online retail platforms from mobile devices soared 74.8 percent, comScore announced March 3. Retail traffic accounted for 23.8 percent of all...
04 March 2014 Credible, the startup developer of a student loan services platform, has announced the completion of a $500,000 venture funding round. Credible aims to address an issue common among many college graduates: high debt loads. The platform enables users to more easily switch...
04 March 2014 MasterCard has announced that it has expanded to seven new markets in Africa. The development raises the number of African markets that accept MasterCard to 48, the company said in a March 4 press release. MasterCard products and services are now accepted in...
04 March 2014 A new study from the Yankee Group has poured some cold water on mobile payments adoption. Only 16 percent of smartphone owners have used their device to make a payment in-store, the study found. Of those, 73 percent use them five times...
05 March 2014 Overstock.com customers have officially made more than $1 million in purchases with bitcoins. The online retailer partnered with Coin Base in early January 2014 to accept the digital currency, meaning the million-dollar milestone was surpassed in slightly less than two months. In...
05 March 2014 eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe believes that eBay and PayPal are stronger together, despite recent moves by investor Carl Icahn to split the payments service from the company’s namesake website. Icahn has recently nominated two business associates to the company’s board of...
05 March 2014 Global technology provider Fiserv Inc. has named Kevin Gregoire as group president. Gregoire most recently led the Card Services division at Fiserv, with responsibility for debit and credit processing solutions, prepaid card services, ATM processing and the Accel payments network. “I am...
04 March 2014 North Shore Bank in Brookfield, Wis., recently launched a MasterPass digital wallet to simplify online shopping for its customers, the first Wisconsin bank to offer the service. It provides a centralized location to securely store debit card, credit card, prepaid card and...
