Investors from Turkey are ready to join the Caspian Sea Kenderli resort project in Kazakhstan. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

The restart of production from the Kashagan field and expansion of the Tengiz project will boost Kazakhstan’s oil production by almost 30 percent by 2020, Deputy Energy Minister Uzakbai Karabalin told a news conference Wednesday. Source: http://www.theoilandgasyear.com

Freedom House stated that it condemns the Kazakhstan Senate’s new regulations banning foreign broadcasts containing “propaganda of a non-traditional sexual orientation,” and requiring all internet publications to register. Source: sputniknews.com

Rakhat Aliyev, the Kazakh president’s ex son-in-law turned political opponent, is found dead in his Austrian jail cell. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk

Geopolitical intelligence, economic, political, and military strategic forecasting Source: http://www.stratfor.com

Here’s one metric no merchant wants to see increase – fraud. But last year, fraud costs rose 38 percent for retailers overall. PCI-DSS was created as a standard Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Better than expected fourth-quarter earnings for Macy’s point to only one thing: its merged channel efforts are paying off for the retailer. Macy’s Q4 earnings Source: http://www.pymnts.com

MasterCard now has cloud-based in-store mobile payments live in 15 countries, with another 10 in the pipeline, the card brand announced on Tuesday (Feb. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

We are in the digital age, but some companies have yet to pull their operations into the technical realm. Unless they act fast, those businesses will lose out Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Fourth-quarter data from MarketLive shows that desktop shopping is still dominating e-commerce sales by three-to-one, eMarketer reports. Not only does Source: http://www.pymnts.com