In the past, the start of the holiday rush began on a particular holiday: Black Friday. Or at least maybe that’s the way it used to be. Like back in the ’60s Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Here’s a nice way to share a little holiday spirit: Mobile payments startup HouseTab will donate five meals to Food Bank for New York City each time a new user Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Pop Quiz–why is the day after Thanksgiving called Black Friday? If you answered “because that is the day that retailers go ‘into the black,’” you are sadly Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Today Americans are giving thanks—they are thankful for their families, their bountiful Thanksgiving feasts, their football games and the beginning of another Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Long predicted but always seeming to be “just around the corner,” mobile payments may finally have arrived. Source: http://www.edn.com

Gesture biometrics technology, popularized by Microsoft’s Kinect, has many potential future uses. Is one of those uses for security? Source: blog.m2sys.com

We expect the current consumer lending driven growth of Kazakh banks to continue over the coming years. Source: http://www.emergingeuropemonitor.com

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on Kazakh mining company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd. (ENRC) to ‘B-‘ from ‘B’ Source: en.trend.az

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will hold negotiations with Turkmen leadership during his official visit to Turkmenistan scheduled for Dec.2. Source: en.trend.az

Energy efficiency is one of major components of energy security of any country Source: en.trend.az