Archives for June, 2014
Visa announced yesterday a new designation for consumer reload-able prepaid products that aims to simplify and clarify fees, step-up consumer protections and make
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, EMV EuroPay MasterCard Visa, Visa MasterCard American Express Tagged with: consumer, customer service fees, overdraft protection fees, prepaid products, prepaid solutions, simplified fees, transaction decline fees, visa
Credit card companies are racing against tech giants like Apple and Google to create what would thin our wallets forever.
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, Visa MasterCard American Express Tagged with: American Express, amex, app, Apple, card, cellphone, credit-card, customers, google, Iphone, virtual credit cards, wallet
Specifically, 55 percent of those who have a workplace rivalry said it has created undue stress and reduced their productivity,
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A couple of teenage boys spent one school lunch break last week hacking into a Bank of Montreal cash machine.
Posted in Credit Card Security, Payment Card Industry PCI Security Tagged with: atm, Bank of Montreal, cash machine, customer data, hacking, password, Security, security risk
About 5.5 million family-owned businesses operate in the United States, according to Family Enterprise USA. The secret to
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: business world, company culture, customer, loyal patrons, organizations
QR: The Bridge to the Modern World Involvement devices have come a long way from the time of Clearinghouse mailings,
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, Smartphone Tagged with: Android app, Anthropologie, app, Apple, bank, barcodes, Best Practices, Brookstone, clearinghouse, code, commercial aviation, Crossing the Bridge, customer relationship, data, data embedded, Delia’s, e-commerce, Facebook, google, Google map, interactive mobile technology, ipad, King Schools, marketing, mobile, mobile access, mobile device, mobile online, mobile technology, multi-channel, phone, portal, Postal Service, QR code, QR reader, retail stores, scan, scanners, smartphone, social media, tablet, USPS, virtual shopping, web, website
David Marcus, president of eBay Inc.’s PayPal division, plans to leave the payments company to join Facebook Inc. The move
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Local businesses with brick-and-mortar stores have not been early adopters of ecommerce. But, with the proliferation of mobile devices and with
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, e-commerce & m-commerce Tagged with: brands, brick and mortar, brick-and-mortar stores, consumers, ecommerce, google, Mobile Devices, mobile optimized, mobile sites, online orders, online stores, pay-per-click, products, sales tax, search engine, search engine optimization, smartphone, websites
To help cubicle workers be as productive as possible, here are some etiquette tips. Be professional. When working in a
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Some American banks and financial institutions, like JPMorgan Chase, American Express and Citi, have already issued credit cards with new
Posted in Best Practices for Merchants, Credit card Processing, Credit Card Reader Terminal, Credit Card Security, EMV EuroPay MasterCard Visa, Visa MasterCard American Express Tagged with: account information, American banks, American Express, card issuer, cards, chip, Chip and PIN, chip reader, Citi, credit card terminals, credit cards, E.M.V., embedded microchip, EuroPay, financial institutions, fraud liability, JPMorgan Chase, magnetic strip, MasterCard, merchant, numeric code, payment terminals, payment transactions, PIN, Security, visa