Yearly Archives: 2014

Ditching your wallet wholesale for plastic cards and mobile payments may be a … – Financial Post

What makes digital transactions so dangerous, experts say, is the intangible technology is attractive and easy to use, but also quick to deplete your savings Source: business.financialpost.com

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Verizon leads $9.4M investment in Flint Mobile mobile payments service – FierceWireless

Verizon Communications lead a $9.4 million investment round in Flint Mobile, a mobile payments service that uses software to process transactions instead of hardware, giving the company a boost from a major carrier. Source: http://www.fiercewireless.com

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Apple Pay: revolution at the tills as the digital wallet pays up

[“Financial Times”]Apple Pay: revolution at the tills as the digital wallet pays up on.ft.comIt’s rare to have a moment of technological revelation in McDonald’s. But it was there among the Big Mac… Source: hahasoawesome.com

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Apple Pay Now Competes With Google Wallet, LoopPay and Softcard for the … – Hallels

Apple Pay Now Competes With Google Wallet, LoopPay and Softcard for the Virtual Mobile Payment Service Market Apple released its virtual mobile wallet Apple Pay on Monday, October 20, alongside iOS 8.1, the next upgrade to the Apple mobile… Source:…

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Windows 10 to get two-factor authentication built-in – InfoWorld

The new OS will feature enhancements in areas like identity protection, data security and malware resistance Source: http://www.infoworld.com

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DIARY – Emerging Markets Economic Events to Nov 4 – Reuters

Oct 24 (Reuters) – For other related diaries, pleasedouble-click on:for emerging market economic indicator release dates and forecastsfor a diary of top economic eventsfor a debt auction diaryfor… Source: http://www.reuters.com

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Cultural Minefields: Navigating the Cultural Landscape in Myanmar and Other Emerging Asian Markets – AmCham HK

American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, one of the largest American Chambers outside the US, the largest international chamber in Hong Kong and the most dynamic and influential international business organization in the Asia-Pacific region. Source: http://www.amcham.org.hk

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Don’t ease up now in emerging markets… battle for consumers is only gearing up – CNN

Companies that interpret slower GDP growth to mean that business opportunities in emerging markets will begin to fade are making a big mistake. Source: edition.cnn.com

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Life Sciences Stakeholders Assess Accessing Emerging Markets – Intellectual Property Watch

PARIS –Life sciences stakeholders at a recent conference explored matters associated with market access in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and in the Middle East and North Af… Source: http://www.ip-watch.org

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What’s Happening in the Emerging Markets? – EconomyWatch.com

The latest happenings in the Emerging Markets and some of what may be next to occur.  Source: http://www.economywatch.com

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