Smaller businesses who do not take card payments often lose business from customers with no cash in their wallets. But the expense of implementing card payments can be offset by the introduction of mobile payments. Source: http://www.mobilepaymentsinsider.com

Facebook’s expansion continues as the company looks set to introduce a mobile payments system on its messenger app.Screenshots taken by iOS develop… Source: http://www.appy-geek.com

Finextra News: What problem does HCE solve for mobile payments? Source: http://www.finextra.com

The Biometrics Institute and the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance announced they will hold a joint event on October 20 from 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., just one day before the Biometrics 2014 confer… Source: http://www.biometricupdate.com

News. According to the head of the National Scientific and Practical Center on Medical and Social Problems of Drug Abuse, methadone therapy also known as opioid substitution therapy (OST) may become nationwide in Kazakhstan in 2016. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

Kazakhstan is working with its Central Asia neighbors to have more sites added to the UN’s World Heritage List, following the recent inscription of a section of the old Silk Roads, the country’s heritage chief told RIA Novosti. Source: en.ria.ru

A solar power plant has been launched in Russia’s Astrakhan province on the basis of the photovoltaic modules produced by Kazakhstan’s Astana Solar LLP, Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company said. Source: en.trend.az

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met with Kazakhstan’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Rapil Zhoshybayev, who is also Commissioner of the international exhibition EXPO-2017 that will be held in Astana, the press service of the Armenian… Source: http://www.panorama.am

I am delighted to be making my first visit to Kazakhstan, a country with which the U.K. has a rapidly growing bilateral relationship. It is also my first opportunity to see vibrant new Astana, much of which reflects the work…

RT @DASHARTS: @dasharts & @AishaOrazbayeva present a night of Kazakh music @richmixlondon 5th Nov 7.30 http://t.co/WDxyOf7Zpj #FREE http://… Source: http://www.dasharts.org.uk