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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
- H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about
- H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutDICK DURBINYou link to his page right in that top paragraph... yet you still can't get his name right?RE: H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutThere are thousands of highly skilled Americans that are unemployed that are willing to take...
- Tags: Obama, H-1B, H-1B legislation, worker
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- PCI Security Compliance: The Facts - What PCI Security Means for Your Business
- The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS was jointly developed by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, Master Card Worldwide and Visa Inc. The PCI DSS is now actively maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council, and represents a multifaceted standard that includes requirements for security management,...
- Tags: Payment, Comodo, PCI, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-04-27
- Russian, Euro cybermafia own your data
- This report from Verion Business PDF, as reported in the Washington Post, offers some interesting numbers amid the obvious conclusion that cybercrime is conducted by organized crime. 100 data breaches involving 285 million consumer records (think you weren't touched)? 93 percent of...
- Tags: Card, Attack, Verizon Business, Financial Services, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Risk, Readiness and Redundancy: PCI Compliance Automation With Symantec Control Compliance Suite
- For most of this decade, the major credit card companies have been aggressively developing standards to establish a common approach to protect the privacy and security of sensitive credit card data. In June 2001, Visa mandated the Cardholder Information Security Program CISP for merchants and financial institutions handling its card...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Symantec Corp., Credit Card, Compliance, PCI, Automation, MasterCard International, Sales Channel, Security, Financial Services, Sales
- White papers 2009-03-27
- PPoPP 2009 Day 1: Parallel Thinking
- The 14th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) and the 15th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-15) opened Monday in Raleigh, NC. Reflecting the growing interdependence of software and hardware the two conferences are being held at the same time in the same...
- Tags: Server, Programming, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- PCI DSS Compliance: Overview and Common Issues
- The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing account data security, developed by the founding payment brands of the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI-SSC), including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa inc. International. The PCI-DSS was created...
- Tags: Payment, Compliance, Consulting, Data Security, PCI, Outsourcing, Storage, Hardware, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2009-01-30
- Lifecycle Process for Changes to PCI DSS
- The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS secures cardholder data that is stored, processed or transmitted by merchants and other organizations. The standard is managed by the PCI Security Standards Council PCI SSC and its founders - American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa...
- Tags: PCI Security Standards Council, PCI, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-01-01
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