A suite of software designed to keep Apple’s Mac computers safe and secure is now under fire for exposing the personal information of millions of Mac owners after a recent data breach. MacKeeper announced on Tuesday (Dec. 14) that security researcher Chris Vickery identified a...
Google’s contactless payment solution, Android Pay, will now be available through the mobile checkouts of several Android apps in the U.S. “Since our launch this fall, we’ve seen millions of people set up Android Pay, and the vast majority of them are using tap-and-pay with their...
The movement to cashless payments is having a seismic effect on the global payments system, according to a recent white paper by IDC, titled “Payment Platform: Enabling Enterprise Transformation Through Actionable Data.” The key force driving the adoption of cashless transactions lies with the growing embrace...
In an indication of just how digitally dependent the world has become, many became aware of the fact that children’s gadget maker VTech had been collecting and storing all data their young users input into their devices when news broke of the company’s data breach...
In the ongoing battle over the government’s right to access consumer data transmitted via smartphones and digital devices, privacy advocates are calling on support from the White House to fight off lawmakers’ attempts to pass stringent encryption legislation. As The Hill reported Saturday (Dec. 12),...
Are tech unicorns really that magical anymore? That’s the question on the docket for the booming startup space that’s put more unicorns in the pasture than perhaps the investor community can handle. What’s happened, of course, as more of those companies hit the $1 billion...
The big bank versus online lenders battle is heating up even more as the wait continues from the Fed to finalize the impending interest rate rise. What the industry has seen, particularly as the alternative lending space has grown, is that big banks like JPMorgan...
The highest echelons of JPMorgan’s staffing ranks in its consumer unit are getting a big reshuffling. As reported by various news outlets, including Bloomberg, an internal memo from Gordon Smith, JPMorgan’s chief executive officer, announced that Eileen Serra — who is widely regarded as one...
In the United Kingdom and all across Europe, the debate over card fees, and card fee caps, continues. SkyNews reported that U.K. businesses should be able to “save millions” due to a new card fee cap, mandated as of today (Dec. 9) by the European Union....
