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Despite a seemingly non-stop parade of headlines about data breaches last year, the number of credit and debit card records compromised actually fell, according to new figures from the Identity Theft Resource Center. The ITRC says it identified 111 data breaches that exposed 3.38 million records in 2011. n In …
January, 2012
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18 January
Protests Might Remove Acquirers From the Online Piracy Fray
The Internet revolt over bills in the U.S. House and Senate aimed at thwarting online piracy might have a welcome side effect for merchant acquirers in possibly getting them out of an unwanted role as deputies charged with enforcing public policy. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia captured international headlines Wednesday when …
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18 January
PayPal’s Home Depot POS Pilot Set to Expand to 51 Stores, eBay Chief Says
San Jose, Calif.-based PayPal Inc. later this week will expand its five-store point-of-sale payments pilot with Home Depot to 51 stores, chiefly in the San Francisco Bay area, according to John Donahoe, chief executive of eBay Inc., PayPal’s parent company, and interim president of PayPal. Speaking during a fourth-quarter conference …
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17 January
Marching to the Point of Sale, PayPal Strikes Its First Terminal Agreement
n Ingenico has been piloting PayPal acceptance for six months, Greg Burch, director of business development at the terminal vendor, tells Digital Transactions News. Burch refuses to name the merchant involved in the pilot, but news emerged last week that Home Depot, which uses Ingenico devices, is testing PayPal …
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12 January
PayPal Says It Did $4 Billion in Mobile Volume in 2011, Projects $7 Billion for This Year
PayPal Inc. on Wednesday projected its mobile-payments volume this year will reach $7 billion, nearly doubling the $4 billion it now says its mobile service processed in 2011. The final number for last year came in significantly higher than the $3.5 billion PayPal was estimating late in the year and …
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12 January
Virtual Currencies Not Yet Ready for Prime Time, Though Facebook Credits Could Be Close
The Internet, especially through online gaming and social networks, has spawned a number of new electronic currencies. Are any of these ready to make the leap into general usage, the way dollars and pounds and euros and yen are today? That was the fascinating question raised this week at a …
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11 January
An FTC Settlement Highlights Regulators’ Concerns with Third-Party Risk
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10 January
Intuit Plants GoPayment’s Flag in Canada and Upgrades Its Card Reader
Intuit Inc. plans to export its GoPayment service to Canada in the next few months, beating out rival Square Inc. as both companies prepare for international expansion of their smart-phone-based payment services aimed at the smallest of merchants. Intuit also is rolling out a new card reader for mobile devices, …
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9 January
Home Depot Is a Good Start for PayPal’s POS Ambitions, But Much Work Likely Remains
PayPal Inc.’s pilot in five Home Depot stores, which the payments processor announced on Friday, represents the start of a major push by PayPal to the point of sale at major merchants. But allowing for a completely new payment method in a physical store, in this case one that has …
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6 January
Global Payments Set To Buy CyberSource’s U.S. Merchant File From Visa
Confirming its earlier signals that it does not want to be a direct U.S. merchant acquirer, at least not yet, Visa Inc. plans to sell its portfolio of just over 9,000 U.S. e-commerce merchants to merchant processor Global Payments Inc. within the next two months. Atlanta-based Global divulged the …