The Morning Download: Companies Still Avoid Cloud for Many Software …
Wall Street Journal
Inventors struggle to protect patents in Africa. In many countries in …

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AT&T Seeks Patent for Creating and Implementing a Mobile Privacy Zone
IPWatchdog.com
Expanding on the wireless network security technology discussed in our featured patent application section is U.S. Patent Application No.

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Credit cards are a suboptimal way to pay for things. Consumers are reluctant to move from physical wallets to digital ones because most mobile wallets don’t provide enough incremental value to convince consumers to switch.

Source: mobilemarketingandtechnology.com

Mobile Payments On The Rise Forbes Beside QR codes, mobile payments are made in an array of forms including near field communication (NFC), innovative mobile wallets (Passbook, MasterCard PayPass), mobile card processors (NewtPay, Square),…

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NFC World Base launches NFC payments and coupons in Germany NFC World “Right from the start, our mobile telephony customers can both pay securely using the mobile wallet and redeem digital coupons,” adds Martin Deventer, director of core network…

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Emerging markets provide the only equities value
FinanceAsia
In late 2012 we shifted to an underweight position in emerging markets, both for fixed-income and equity.

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Emerging Market Evening Read: BRIC Headlines
Barron’s (blog)
Emerging market stocks rallied on Wednesday, though the Brazil market tumbled.

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GMI expands risk rating to emerging markets IR Magazine ‘Our global investor clients have expressed a strong need for emerging market ratings, and we are pleased to provide them with comprehensive ratings and data to better understand the potential…

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Global mobile traffic grew 95% from the first quarter to the second quarter.

Source: venturebeat.com

Security Document World (press release) Kyrgyzstan to register citizens’ biometrics – paves the way for ePassports Security Document World (press release) The President of Kyrgyzstan has signed into law a plan to register the biometrics of all…

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