Starbucks reported a strong Q2 performance, with revenue up 11 percent, a 23 percent increase in quarterly profit. Mobile payments were a particularly strong performer for the company, contributing 15 percent of total quarterly revenue. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Fresh off its announcement earlier in the day of Visa Digital Solutions, a solution designed to help facilitate secure payments across a broad range of Internet-connected products, Visa CEO Charlie Scharf laid out the groundwork for Visa’s digital… Source: http://www.pymnts.com

ATM networks have joined together to create global defense solutions to fight potential breaches, according to ABA Banking Journal. Together, Diebold, Inc. and Wincor Nixdorf AG will start an industry association to improve ATM security. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

As it turns out, even Amazon has to turn a strong profit.Investors reacted strongly to Amazon’s larger than expected Q2 2014 loss of $126 million. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

MoneyGram announced the addition of two leaders this week, a move that is expected to help the money transfer and payments services company focus more on emerging markets and self-service channels. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

After a security breach in February of this year, eBay now faces a class action suit in a U.S. federal court, says iT News. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Quorum Federal Credit Union announced this week that it chose NetSuite to manage its financials, help support its rapid growth and power its business transformation. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Sabina Altynbekova was just another 18-year-old girl before she turned up in the Taiwanese capital Taipei to compete for Kazakhstan in the Asian Under-19 Championships. (some people are just born heaven blessed… Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Kazakh Kazmortransflot gets record profits in first half of 2014 Trend.az By Elena Kosolapova – Trend: Kazakh National Maritime Shipping Company Kazmortransflot received record profit of 1.249 billion tenge (183.53 tenge = $1) in January-June 2014,… Source: en.trend.az

Netherlands no longer biggest investor into Kazakh economyTengrinewsAs of the end of the Q1 2014 the Netherlands left its first position in the rankings of largest investors into the Kazakhstan’s economy, EastTime.ru reports. Source: en.tengrinews.kz