Yearly Archives: 2014

Mining investment in Kazakhstan to reach $30bn by 2017 – MINING.com

The country is fine-tuning details of a new mining law that will make it easier for foreigners to tap the nation’s riches. Source: http://www.mining.com

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Take Me Out To The NFC-Game | PYMNTS.com

Two Major League Baseball stadiums will be accepting Apple Pay and will do so just in time for the World Series Tuesday (Oct. 21). “MLB Advanced Media, the Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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Another Major Retailer Breached | PYMNTS.com

The $21 billion office supply chain Staples appears to be the latest retail chain hit by cyberthieves. On Monday (Oct. 20), Staples issued a statement whose Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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Capital One: Credit-Card Payment Improvements Are “Unsustainable” | PYMNTS.com

Capital One said significantly fewer of its credit card holders defaulted on their card debts in the third quarter — but the bank’s CEO called that situation Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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Will Apple Pay Prove To Be Payments’ Model T? Or An Edsel? | PYMNTS.com

Henry Ford didn’t invent the car, the internal combustion engine or the wheel— those honors go to Karl Benz, Nikolaus Otto and Eugene Langen (or Eugenio Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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What Only The “Almost Famous” Know About Payments

Nobody in the real world likes failure.  When new business ventures are launching, entrepreneurs talk about the great and potent success they plan to enjoy, not the many valuable lessons they will learn in the wake their inevitable failure –…

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Alipay Wallet’s Remarkable Volume

Alipay Wallet has confirmed 190 million annual active users and is delivering 45 million daily transactions, with more than half of that coming directly from Alipay transactions, reports Technode. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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Head of Illinois retailers group says new state patent troll law not enough | WashingtonExaminer.com

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline) – The head of an Illinois retailers group says a new state law isn’t enough to fight off so-called “patent trolls.” In a guest column for Reboot Illinois last week, Illinois Retail Merchants Association… Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Legal Theory Blog: Ouellette on Patentable Subject Matter & Innovation Incentives Outside Patent Law

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette (Stanford Law School) has posted Patentable Subject Matter and Non-Patent Innovation Incentives (U.C. Irvine Law Review, Vol. 5 (2015), Forthcoming) on SSRN. Source: lsolum.typepad.com

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Voip-Pal.com Inc.’s Lawful Intercept Patent Continuation Becomes Seventh … – MarketWatch

Voip-Pal.com Inc.’s Lawful Intercept Patent Continuation Becomes Seventh … Source: http://www.marketwatch.com

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