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- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...
- Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas—such as their PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to send and receive money from anywhere.
- Tags: Visa Inc., CIO, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Visa
- Videos 2008-10-07
- America's blocked labor policies
- America's blocked labor policiesAll of our restrictions help Canada though. Companies, including MS are nowsetting up shop in Canada to get around US restrictions. Also, India and others will benefit, as more people stay home. Not sure what the solution is, but we only hurt ourselves with the restrictions.RE: America's...
- Tags: H-1B, Recruitment & Selection, visa, blocked labor policy, labor policy, job, H1B
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
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- The candidates on tech
- Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....
- Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatmentWell, Duh.....Anyone working in the tech field can provide many examples of this activity. The financial services company where I work is almost completely outsourced to Indian vendor company workers, over here on H-1B's. Additionally, many of us here have trained the very people...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Litigation, Outsourcing, H-1B, worker mistreatment, mistreatment, job, worker, fraud
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- CIO Sessions: Visa's Michael Dreyer
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about developing transaction technologies for its financial payment network including new wallet-less and contact-less payment solutions. Dreyer also discusses what it takes to process and handle more than 300 million transactions on a daily basis, and the company's response...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Visa CIO: Michael Dreyer
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about developing transaction technologies for its financial payment network including new wallet-less and contact-less payment solutions. Dreyer also discusses what it takes to process and handle more than 300 million transactions on a daily basis, and the company's response...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Authorizing and clearing transactions
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, describes how they are competing in the global marketplace. He also outlines their data processing strategies and how their technology operations are giving the company an edge. by Administrator
- Tags: Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Moving quickly with tap-and-go technology
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas—such as their PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to send and receive money from anywhere. by Administrator
- Tags: Technology, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Handling holiday peak periods
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, explains how he tests Visa's systems for dealing with high volume times, and how high those peaks can really go. by Administrator
- Tags: Visa Inc., Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...
- Tags: Payment, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- News to know: Debate Hub, Clickjacking; RIM's Q2; Twitter; Slingbox goes HD
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: EXCLUSIVE: C-SPAN launches gadget-fueled ‘Debate Hub' as social, political destination Former Google product manager ‘disappointed' by T-Mobile G1 ...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., CNET Networks Inc., Matthew Miller, Twitter, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Security, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phones
- Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phonesHow about taking it to next levelHow about letting android users with their software authorize payments as they happen. So I make a purchase I get instant prompt to authorize or deny the purchase. This would make credit card thefts pointless and deliver...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Nokia Corp., Visa Inc., Nokia Phones
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phones
- Visa said Thursday that it will develop applications for Android and Nokia phones with mobile payment systems planned for the latter. First up, the company said Chase Visa cardholders could get notifications about transaction activity on Android phones statement. Visa added that location-based services, maps and merchant...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Phone, Nokia Corp., Android, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Have an idea that can change the world?
- Have an idea that can change the world?Trust this contest for what it isJust keep in mind that a company called Apple Computer held their "I Changed the World" contest back in '92 for the same reason. I know of one acknowledged/awarded idea that changed their entire platform to...
- Tags: Google Inc., RFID
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?
- Did John McCain invent the BlackBerry? Well, no one actually said he did, although the Telegraph headlined a story as such. As the LA Times reports the episode, here's what happened: Asked by reporters today about McCain's grasp of technological issues, senior policy...
- Tags: Technology Innovation, John McCain, RIM BlackBerry, Tech Policy, Handhelds, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Now Debuting: One-Click Payment For Illegal Downloads
- Frank Zappa again is a mother of invention.  Since Friday, songs of the experimental musician, dead now for almost 15 years, have been used to test a one-click system for getting payments from individuals who download works of artists illegally. ...
- Tags: Payment, Musician, Antipiracy, Nexicon Inc., Piracy, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Debate rages over SOA's 'cloudy' future
- Debate rages over SOA's 'cloudy' futureMaybe the best way to put it is that with WOA, we just pick the low hangingfruit first, and do not need to get into religious wars, or get company wide buy-in, you just do it. Not sure which name will win out, but getting...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, cloud computing, WOA, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- An IE8 Beta 2 Q
- An IE8 Beta 2 QWhat if you uninstall beta 1 first?Will you fall back to IE7 then be able to install beta 2 with a fallback to IE7?Can I uninstall IE8? Yes ... unless ...... you downloaded and installed IE8 Beta 1 prior to installing Windows XP SP3, in which...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, IE8 Beta 2 Q, IE8, beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Tags: Fair Use, e-voting, client-server, Fairness Doctrine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
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- Visa Inc.
- Visa operates a retail electronic payments network and manages global financial services brands. Co. facilitates global commerce through the transfer of value and information among...
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