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- Visa's one giant leap for mobile micropay- or is it?
- At CTIA today, Visa USA President and CEO John Philip Coghlan announced a number of alliances with mobile content providers that would allow micropayments for mobile commerce and content.No marketer should attempt to forge those alliances without research. Not to worry, because Coghland came to the podium with some...
- Tags: mobile marketing, Visa International, mobile payment, telephone
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- CES: Wireless payments at the register with your cell phone are around the corner
- After seeing the demonstration that Visa just gave me at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Im pretty sure it wont be too long before many of us will be paying for everything from our groceries to our Dunkin Donuts wirelessly with our cell phones. Visa had a "pod"...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired &, Wireless, Telephony, Events, CES 2007, Disruptive Technology, credit card, telephone, Near Field Communication
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- One Skype user's tale of SkypeOut "Add Credits" woe
- Skype user rox has recently experienced a customer-service meltdown of the highest magnitude. She writes us to call attention to the many Skype Forum posts she has made in which she has given a blow-by-blow account of the ordeal.This whole bloody mess started when rox attempted to add an...
- Tags: General, Skype, Case Studies, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- Visa owns 55% of Hong Kong credit card market, MasterCard - 35%
- In June 2004, total credit card debt as a percentage of total household credit was 6.4% for Hong Kong. This was significantly higher than that of Singapore which was 2.7% but less than other regional countries such as Thailand and Taiwan with 7.3% and 8.5% respectively. In terms of the...
- Tags: credit card
- Blog posts 2006-02-10
- $26.5 purchases online with Visa cards in Q4 2005
- Online sales on Visa-branded payment cards rose 33.7% to $26.5 bln in Q4 2005, up from $19.83 bln in Q4 2004, according to Visa USA SpendTrak, which measures spending on Visa-branded credit, debit and commercial cards.
- Tags: Q4 2005, Visa International
- Blog posts 2006-01-05
- Credit card market shares in 2004: Visa - 40%, Amex - 36.4%, MC - 21.3%
- IDC data shows Americans spending $340 bln annually on credit cards in 2004. Visa and American Express led the market in 2004 with 40% and 36.4% market share, respectively. By 2009, Americans will spend $996 bln with credit cards, with Visa owning 48.4% of the market and MasterCard becoming #2...
- Tags: credit card, Visa International
- Blog posts 2005-12-23
- Visa: $3.9 bln spent on Friday after Thanksgiving
- Visa said that total spending on its branded credit cards on the Friday after Thanksgiving grew about 14% from in 2004 to more than $3.9 bln. Spending on personal entertainment led the retail category, followed by spending at specialty retail stores and home-and-garden purchases.
- Tags: Visa International
- Blog posts 2005-11-28
- At last, SOA gets some credit
- It's always good to get some hard numbers around the results of a technology implementation, and such measurements are still extremely rare in the SOA space. At last, there is a big tangible ROI story to tell.ComputerWorld reports that Visa International has been quite effectively using Web services to automate...
- Tags: back-end system, Visa International
- Blog posts 2005-04-01
- Pre-Christmas credit card spending up 57.8% in 2004
- Online spending on Visa credit and debit cards surged 57.8% YTY for the week ended Dec. 26, to $1.83 bln from $1.16 bln, according to Visa. Meanwhile, total (online+offline) spending on Visa cards rose 31.8% for the week, to $25.38 bln.
- Tags: Visa International
- Blog posts 2004-12-29
- Pre-Christmas credit card spending up 57.8% in 2004
- Online spending on Visa credit and debit cards surged 57.8% YTY for the week ended Dec. 26, to $1.83 bln from $1.16 bln, according to Visa. Meanwhile, total (online+offline) spending on Visa cards rose 31.8% for the week, to $25.38 bln.
- Tags: Visa International
- Blog posts 2004-12-29
- $234 mln charged to Visa cards on Black Friday
- E-commerce transactions on US Visa credit and debit cards on Black Friday (Nov 26) increased 28.1%, to $234 mln from $183 mln a year ago, Visa reports. Total Black Friday volume on Visa cards rose 15.5% to $4.136 bln. The number of Black Friday e-commerce transactions on Visa cards rose...
- Tags: Black Friday, Visa Card, Visa International
- Blog posts 2004-12-01
- Visa or MasterCard? Here's the US data
- Consumer Credit Survey, conducted by BIGresearch, finds that a majority (74%) have a Visa card, and nearly as many (66%) carry MasterCard. A little more than three out of every 10 (31%), own a Discover Card, and 20% hold American Express cards.
- Tags: MasterCard International, Visa International
- Blog posts 2003-11-10
- Visa: credit card fraud numbers
- Visa said 30% of card frauds currently involve Card-Not-Present situations - where the buyer is not present to physically sign off the transaction. It predicted the proportion would rise to nearly half by the end of 2007.
- Tags: Visa International, credit card
- Blog posts 2003-10-05
Additional Resources
- End of an era: Dell may dump its factories
- End of an era: Dell may dump its factoriesRubbed up the wrong way?"The rub: It’s unclear whether contract equipment manufacturers would want to buy Dell’s manufacturing hubs. Do contract manufacturers really want to take on Dell’s capacity?"Don't CEM's want to take on everyone's capacity ... I mean isn't their model...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., End-Of-An-Era
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Internet traffic up 53% in the last 12 months
- According to TeleGeography, international Internet traffic grew 53% between mid-2007 and mid-2008, down from 61% the preceding year. Traffic growth between the US and Latin America was especially fast, surging 112%. Traffic on internet backbones between major cities in the relatively more mature US market rose a modest 47%. For...
- Tags: Internet-backbone, Traffic, Internet, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Data Doctor Forensic Software - Pocket PC (exe)
- Pocket PC forensic investigator fetch OS registry information, folders data content, mobile information include inbox/outbox read unread text messages, contact number with name and other relevant information. Mobile phone inspection tool capable to display phone book, contact numbers, text messages, mobile manufacturer name, mobile IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity number,...
- Tags: Software, Phone, Mobile, PC, Cell Phone, Data Recovery Software, Pocket PC, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- Video: Second Life competing with Cisco Telepresence?
- Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, explains how Second Life has become a competitor to Cisco's Telepresence in conducting international meetings, group projects, and even recruiting and job training. I don't quite buy Miller's take, but it's worth a quick a few...
- Tags: Second Life, Cisco TelePresence, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Job Training, Collaboration, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Business meetings in Second Life
- Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, explains how Second Life has become a competitor to Cisco's Telepresence in conducting international meetings, group projects, and even recruiting and job training. by Administrator
- Tags: Second Life, Job Training, Recruitment & Selection, Training And Certification, Collaboration, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- 8 million iPhones sold; 10m by end of September
- According to a piece at Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog Apple has sold 8 million iPhones to date. But that's not an official stat from Apple, it's an approximation based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity IMEI numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Corporate Governance, Engineering, Blogging, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- NASA confirms infection, 'not the first time'
- As I noted a few days ago, the International Space Station has a virus, which NASA now confirms. From eFlux, a spokesperson explained: "This is not the first time we have had a worm or a virus," said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries during a press...
- Tags: Infection, NASA, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
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