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Amazon to let you pay via selfie?
March 17th, 2016
Amazon could soon let customers purchase products without a password, using a photo of their face instead. The ecommerce giant has filed a patent to use photos or videos of a user’s face as a way to approve their ...
Russian court rejects Google’s anti-monopoly appeal
March 15th, 2016
The Moscow Arbitration Court has dismissed an appeal by Google against a decision by Russia’s competition watchdog that the US company broke anti-monopoly laws. The court upheld the ruling of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) that Google abused its ...
U.S. punishes Chinese tech giant over alleged plan to dodge Iran sanctions
March 8th, 2016
The U.S. government is cracking down on a major Chinese telecom equipment maker over an alleged scheme to dodge sanctions on Iran. The plan by ZTE (ZTCOF) involved setting up several shell companies “to illicitly re-export controlled items to Iran in violation ...
Microsoft, Google Join Rivals to Back Apple in FBI Fight
March 4th, 2016
Tech competitors argue privacy, security threatened in case San Bernardino shooting victim among those supporting Apple Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google set aside often fierce rivalries to back Apple Inc. in its fight against a judge’s order ...
MWC 2016: Mastercard rolls out selfie ID checks
February 25th, 2016
Credit card firm Mastercard has confirmed it will accept selfie photos and fingerprints as an alternative to passwords when verifying IDs for online payments. It follows a trial of the software carried out in the US and Netherlands last ...
EU and Brazil to work together on 5G mobile technology
February 25th, 2016
The EU and Brazil today signed an agreement to develop 5G, the next generation of communication networks. The Commission also started work on an action plan to deploy the technology in the EU by 2020. In the future, everybody ...
PayPal Eyes Growth in New Alliances With Vodafone, America Movil
February 22nd, 2016
Mobile carriers are gateway to 740 million potential customers Payments business looks beyond e-commerce for revenue PayPal Holdings Inc. forged new mobile-wallet partnerships with telecommunications giants Vodafone Group Plc in Europe and America Movil SAB in Latin America, ...
Visa Europe expands tokenisation service
February 16th, 2016
Visa Europe is opening up its tokenisation service, letting banks, retailers and tech firms use the technology for a host of new payment options. Tokenisation replaces the traditional 16-digit Visa account number with a unique series of numbers, helping ...
FIS and PayPal Set Pace for Cardless Cash in the United States
February 12th, 2016
Key facts FIS and PayPal collaborate on technology that gives consumers access to their bank accounts with one touch from their smartphones at more than 2,000 ATMs today nationwide. FIS Cardless Cash makes getting cash more secure for consumers ...
India blocks Facebook’s plan for free Internet
February 8th, 2016
Facebook’s campaign to offer free Internet access to hundreds of millions of people in India has been blocked. India’s telecoms regulator ruled Monday that service providers must charge the same price for all content, dealing a crushing blow to ...
