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2 Drug Chains Disable Apple Pay, as a Rival Makes Plans
October 27th, 2014
A consortium of merchants plans to introduce a payment system next year that will supplant the use of credit and debit cards. Apple Pay, the Silicon Valley giant’s highly anticipated mobile wallet, has been available for only one week ...
PwC and MarketInvoice help small firms in investment
October 27th, 2014
An agreement between PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and online debt market MarketInvoice, announced today, plans to give businesses extra borrowing options. PwC will inform its clients about MarketInvoice’s financing services and the online firm will refer its clients to the PwC ...
CoinCorner Now Accepts Debit and Credit Cards for Bitcoin Purchases
October 24th, 2014
British bitcoin exchange CoinCorner now allows clients to purchase bitcoin and some altcoins with debit and credit cards. The feature went live yesterday, making CoinCorner one of very few places in the British Isles to accept direct card payments ...
Copyright claims against YouTube ‘unfair’, says co-founder
October 24th, 2014
The co-founder of YouTube, Chad Hurley, has said legal cases launched against the video-sharing website have been “unfair” and blamed traditional television broadcasters who are scared of losing their influence in the distribution of content. Multiple copyright cases have ...
Investing: Can you retire on $1 million?
October 24th, 2014
Probably. But you have to be smart about your investments and your withdrawals. some tips. If you read any financial advertising, you know that your savings are inadequate, and you’re likely to freeze to death in the dark a ...
12th Shanghai International Money Fair will be held on October 31st
October 23rd, 2014
As a concurrent event of the 12th Shanghai International Money Fair, China’s largest finance information & exchange platform for investors, the first-ever China Online Trading Summit 2014 will take place on Friday, Oct 31, 2014 in Shanghai. Speakers, panelists, topics, and sponsors ...
Alpari Trading Volumes Reach $217 Billion in September
October 23rd, 2014
The Alpari group of companies have announced trading volumes in excess of $217 billion for 1-30 September 2014. Forex, precious metals and commodity trading proved particularly robust during September. Comprehensive analysis of the Scottish referendum – which included Bloomberg ...
Hong Kong Is Hot Spot for U.S. Lawyers as Probes Rise
October 22nd, 2014
When Cathy Palmer first came to Hong Kong as a U.S. prosecutor more than 20 years ago, she was chasing heroin-smuggling triads who later sent a booby-trapped package to her Brooklyn office. Since March, she has been in the ...
Gold Rebounds Boosted by India Holiday Sales
October 21st, 2014
Even after a two-week rally in bullion, domestic prices remain 7.4 percent lower than a year ago just as sales are set to climb for the festival and wedding season. India is the largest gold buyer after China. The ...
Private equity titans open cloistered world to smaller investors
October 21st, 2014
Seeing individual investors as untapped sources of capital, private equity firms are seeking to attract checks in the tens of thousands of dollars rather than in the hundreds of millions. For decades, David M. Rubenstein has persuaded big institutions ...