Credit.com News (blog)Pay Off Your Credit Cards Mid-Month Before Applying for a LoanLifehackerYou’d think you’d have a great credit score if you pay off your credit card balances every month, but that’s not always the case. Source: lifehacker.com

Every day seems to bring exciting new studies as research shows us more about how social media is changing the way we relate to one another, share information and even form our identities. I’ve been collecting a few of these studies…

…Over the last few days I’ve been playing with Truth, a similar app for iOS that lets you send anonymous text messages to people in your phone’s contacts. The interface is a close facsimile of Apple’s default Messages app, so there isn’t…

Online advertising has grown exponentially since its foundation in the 90s. Now, online ad sales make up the majority of the industry, and savvy companies are directing the lion’s share of their budgets at the digital space. Advertising through social…

Consumers like mobile payments, not mobile walletsFierceMobileITLast year, Forrester predicted the U.S. mobile payment market will reach $90 billion by 2017. Source: http://www.fiercemobileit.com

Are you ready to embrace payments for the 21st Century Consumer? Find out how Casheer makes mobile payments a breeze! (RT @haydentiff: Excited about the UTILITY @CasheerApp will add to crypto’s? Source: altcoinherald.com

Even though there are currently several altcoins working on releasing an Android wallet which supports mobile staking, ShadowCoin beat them to the punch. ShadowGo might not show up yet in the Google Play Store, but you can download the APK…

In the summer of 2008, I was in Paris delivering a mobile payments presentation to the CEO of a French bank. At the end of the meeting, he asked me when we.. Source: techcrunch.com

Financial PostEmerging Markets Morning ReadBarron’s (blog)India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised every family a bank account in an independence day speech. He also spat on capitalistic thinking, in so many words. Source: blogs.barrons.com

ReutersEMERGING MARKETS-Russian stocks rise, C.Europe FX steady after GDPReutersFor GRAPHIC on MSCI emerging Europe performance 2014, see link.reuters.com/jun28s. For GRAPHIC on MSCI frontier index performance 2014, see link.reuters.com/zyh97s. Source: http://www.reuters.com