Three months ago, Apple Pay kicked off a new flurry of excitement about contactless payments. Source: gigaom.com

Google Inc is in talks to buy mobile-payments company Softcard, technology news website TechCrunch reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Source: http://www.thestar.com.my

China has become big in Africa. Now for the backlash. Source: uk.businessinsider.com

“Countries exporting to the Eurozone will be affected negatively by the weak euro” experts warn. Source: http://www.worldbulletin.net

After a nice run higher during the middle of 2014, several emerging markets ETFs have stumbled into 2015, falling or underperforming other markets for the better part of the past 5 m… Source: kennethcarnesi.wordpress.com

Many investors now have more than 20pc of their money sunk into emerging markets, ‘alarming’ the experts. Its understandable if they’re investing for 40 years, says Andrew Oxlade Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Evidence gathered by software hidden by the N.S.A. to monitor North Korean activities proved critical in persuading President Obama to accuse the government of ordering the cyberattack on Sony, officials said. Source: http://www.nytimes.com

American Businesses must accept the new EMV, “chip enabled”, credit cards by October 2015.  October is when the “liability shift” begins.  The banks, not the business, will be liable for all… Source: thesmallbusinesstimes.weebly.com

Kazakhstan’s ambitions of joining both the UN Security Council and the WTO may be at risk from falling oil prices, as European investment in the nation dries up Source: oilprice.com

When oil prices drop, some countries lose Source: http://www.kvue.com