The early part of this week saw the mainstream media more or less ruled by three basic topics: Joe Biden, the movie “Back to the Future II” and the Chicago Cubs. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Suffice to say, the Internet is a big place that’s getting bigger every day. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Retailers deal in terabytes of consumer data, but the public doesn’t believe that everything is being done to protect their information. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Virtusa’s vToken solution aims to help companies seeking the ability to act as their own Token Service Providers by supporting in-house tokenization systems. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

PYMNTS caught up with Seth Priebatsch, Chief Ninja at Level Up, to talk mobile order and pay and other trends in the mobile ordering restaurant industry. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

The party is over, the time to shore up mobile dominance is now. With more competition the field is getting narrower, but Apple does have more users … Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Facebook launched its new search capability, Search FYI, which allows users to receive better search suggestions and results based off of indexed posts. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Poynt is bringing its Smart Terminal to market after securing $28 million in Series B funding. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Fulfilling O2O orders can wreak havoc on physical retailers’ inventories and staffing resources, but new software can bring analytics to small merchants. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com

Tencent Holdings’ mobile messaging app WeChat will soon be charging its 600 million+ users a fee for its payments and money transfer services. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.pymnts.com