Monthly Archives: March 2015

Are Banks and Retailers Ready for Smart Chip Credit and Debit Cards?

Recent high-profile data breaches, such as those perpetrated against Target and Home Depot, have thrust credit card security chips and the term “EMV” into the public consciousness as the banking and retail industries ready themselves for the… Source: http://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com

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Peter Thiel Invests in Anti-Aging Cure | MIT Technology Review

Peter Thiel was the first large investor in Facebook. Now he’s turning his investing skills to biotechnology. Source: http://www.technologyreview.com

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Square’s $Cashtags Goes B2B | PYMNTS.com

Square is making its latest move on the Small Business marketplace with another card processing service aimed at making it easier for SMBs to ditch checks in Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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Twitter Lets Users Specify Their Locations With Help From Foursquare | PYMNTS.com

Twitter has cut a deal with Foursquare to let users tag their tweets with much more specific location information, Twitter announced in a blog post on Monday Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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Mobile Money Transactions Doubled In 2014 | PYMNTS.com

The rate of global mobile money transfers continues to increase at a steady rate as the percentage of mobile remittances in 2014 doubled between January 2014 Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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Amazon’s Customer-Centric Focus | PYMNTS.com

“Everybody’s talking and no one says a word,” wrote John Lennon in his popular “Nobody Told Me,” song from 1984. Lennon, of course, wasn’t talking about Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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Three Ways MasterCard Pushes FinTech Forward | PYMNTS.com

MasterCard is teaming up with Silicon Valley Bank to once again power the highly selective, four-month virtual startup accelerator program called Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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Defending Native Mobile Apps From Fraud | PYMNTS.com

Mobile + online = the optimal environment for fraud. But not for the reasons you may think. Native mobile apps downloaded to a mobile device, says ThreatMetrix, Source: http://www.pymnts.com

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New Patent Office Guidance On Medical Use Claims – Intellectual Property – Canada

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has released revised guidance on examination of medical use claims: PN 2015-01 Revised Examination Practice Respecting Medical Uses. Source: http://www.mondaq.com

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Patent Anticipation and Obviousness as Possession by Timothy R. Holbrook :: SSRN

The concept of possession in property law operates to allocate property rights among competing claimants by awarding the property to the first to take possessio Source: papers.ssrn.com

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