Mobile payments aren’t quite ready for prime time — at least not in Boston. That’s the conclusion of a Boston Globe writer who tested mobile-payment offerings Source: http://www.pymnts.com

PayPal has added another bank partner under its international belt to help the payment provider’s global expansion. This time, it’s in Georgia — the country of Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Google Wants to push Amazon’s buttons a little further — this time with its own retailer-driven buy button. The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The U.S. Payments Security Task Force (PST) was established earlier this year and dared to go where no task force has ever gone before: it has created a roadmap Source: http://www.pymnts.com

ebay and PayPal said they’d break apart. Apple Pay broke into the payments scene, cybercriminals and data breaches everywhere broke merchants hearts and Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Security Matters: December 14, 2014 Source: http://www.wjla.com

Credit card fraud and identify theft are serious problems for consumers and industries. Source: phys.org

Biometrics has always relied on Big Data, but applications are becoming more numerous, various, and with correlations more ominous. Source: blog.syncsort.com

Secret Examination Procedures at the USPTO: My Experience with SAWSIPWatchdog.comAs a brief introduction to Gofigure, Gofigure holds about twenty-five issued and pending patents on which I am either the sole inventor or a co-inventor. Source: http://www.ipwatchdog.com

Some small retailers are reverting back to legacy point-of-sale systems. Source: uk.businessinsider.com