Fingerprint Cards has partnered with O-Film to provide its touch fingerprint sensor technology while O-Film is developing, manufacturing and selling fingerprint sensor modules to OEMs. The partners… Source: http://www.biometricupdate.com

A China-based food delivery startup says it has big plans for the $30 million in funding it will receive.Line0, based in Nanjing, announced this week that the millions were secured from Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Payments experts expect security budgets to increase this year – as well as the breaches. Forrester predicts that 60 percent of enterprises will discover a breach in 2015. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The Kazakhstani crew of Marat Abykayev and Andrey Chipenko has finished the 8th stage of the Africe Eco Race-2015 first in their T2 group. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

The Times of Central Asia Source: http://www.timesca.com

In what appears to be a direct response to Russian leader Vladimir Putin questioning the validity of Kazakhstan’s existence as a state, Kazakhstan is entering 2015 with grand plans to celebrate over half a millennium of Kazakh statehood. Source: http://www.themoscowtimes.com

OnIslam, 7 January 2015 ALMATY – Fleeing with their religion from Chinese restrictions, a growing number of Uighur Muslims are leaving Xinjiang to find a warmer reception in Muslim majority Kazakhstan. Source: http://www.uyghurcongress.org

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says major powers involved in trying to resolve the conflict in Ukraine are working on setting up a possible meeting in Kazakhstan, but it remains unclear whether it will come together. Source: http://www.kyivpost.com

Omnichannel is a buzzword in retail, yet a majority of retailers don’t have anyone heading up the efforts to actually implement the multichannel sales approach, Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Security continues to be a hot topic these days, especially mobile point of sale security. Industry data shows that the installed base of global mPOS devices Source: http://www.pymnts.com