Industry News

Facebook to launch into ecommerce

Facebook plans to launch an ecommerce platform, hoping to rival online shopping sites Amazon and eBay.

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Ecommerce turning brick-and-mortar stores in showrooms

Consumers’ adoption of mobile devices has created an era in which shoppers are highly informed before committing to a purchase and brick-and-mortar retail stores are becoming showrooms in some cases.

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Using contactless payments at the pump

Consumers can fuel up faster with new mobile apps that allow them to pay remotely using a smartphone.

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Visa outage stalls credit card processing

The outage began Sunday at 11:40 a.m. when Visa reported trouble processing some transactions nationwide

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EMV-chip cards still not issued in the U.S.

EMV-chip enabled payments might be coming soon as the result of mandates established by Visa, MasterCard and Discover, but probably not before the April 2013 deadline.

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New Jersey mass transit riders can make contactless payments

New Jersey’s PATCO high speed transit system is entering the second wave of its new payments system in which riders will be able to make contactless payments.

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Massive credit card breach could have been avoided with tokenization

The company recently stated the breach was contained and would affect just 1.5 million U.S. accounts.

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Online shoppers plan to shop in multiple channels this year

A recent report by eMarketer revealed that online shoppers are embracing multichannel retailing and plan to incorporate more channels into their purchasing plans next year.

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Large organizations more lucrative target for hackers, require more security

Retailers have become more savvy about fraud management, writes Kate Fitzgerald for ISO & Agent.

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New security solutions for ecommerce merchants

Fraud from card-not-present transactions continues to be a problem for ecommerce retailers.

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