MasterCard today took a strong move to push out mobile-wallet technology faster globally, including its own MasterPass digital service, with the announced planned acquisition of long-time partner C-SAM, whose platform supports not just payments but also customer-specific offers, loyalty incentives,…

(PR) Zecotek Receives United States Patent Allowance for its MAPD Solid-State … See on online.wsj.com

ImageWare Systems To Feature GoMobile Interactive Multi-Modal Biometric … See on http://www.prnewswire.com

Economic Times Google offered more than $19B for WhatsApp: Here’s why it got turned down SiliconANGLE (blog) If you haven’t gotten over the fact that Facebook is paying a stunning $19 billion in cash and stocks for WhatsApp, then you’ll…

Google (GOOG) has made its third security acquisition of 2014, acquiring click fraud detection tech developer Spider.io. See on seekingalpha.com

Slate Magazine (blog) Apple Security Flaw Is “As Bad As You Could Imagine” Slate Magazine (blog) Apple acknowledged a major security flaw in its software for mobile devices on Friday but did so in such a low-key way that most…

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Apparently some deal has been made between Kazakhstan and Russia around strengthening the Russian Ruble. It is not just Kazakhstan. Other Central Asia countries are also in this “dance” and their currencies have also been hit. See on bmaink.wordpress.com

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