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This credit card has a display and number pad

Posted November 8, 2012 - 14:28 by Shane McGlaun

There are various methods of making online financial transactions more secure for those who remain uncomfortable with using a standard credit or debit card.

Barnes & Noble credit card data was stolen

Posted October 24, 2012 - 12:17 by Mark Raby

Barnes & Noble is playing damage control after a large amount of credit card data appears to have been stolen from dozens of storms.

Isis mobile payment platform delayed

Posted September 14, 2012 - 14:11 by Raven Lovecraft

The introduction of Isis's sweeping mobile payment platform continues to move at a crawl.

Mastercard launches 'Paypass Wallet' platform

Posted May 8, 2012 - 09:49 by Mark Raby

Mastercard is hoping to define what it means to be a payment solutions provider in the 21st century.

Isis mobile payments venture signs major credit card deal

Posted July 20, 2011 - 05:04 by Emma Woollacott

Isis - the mobile payments joint venture from AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile - has signed up four credit card companies, potentially pushing it ahead in the race with Google Wallet.

WikiLeaks accepting credit card funds again

Posted July 8, 2011 - 09:14 by David Gomez

You can’t keep a good whistleblowing website down for long. WikiLeaks is able to accept credit card donations again.

MasterCard website briefly downed by hacktivists

Posted June 28, 2011 - 11:19 by Trent Nouveau

A hacktivist and an unknown number of accomplices managed to briefly knock MasterCard's website offline in a DDoS attack earlier this morning.

MasterCard survey claims users ready for NFC payments

Posted May 20, 2011 - 10:40 by Lydia Leavitt

A recent MasterCard survey indicates the majority of smartphone users between the ages of 18-34 are ready to embrace NFC or mobile payments.

Waving to pay: Google, Apple and NFC

Posted March 28, 2011 - 18:30 by Tirsina Radu

Users of Android powered smartphones and tablets may no longer need their conventional wallets for shopping purposes.

Anonymous brings down Mastercard in defence of Wikileaks

Posted December 8, 2010 - 09:44 by Emma Woollacott

The Mastercard website is down, following an attempt by the Anonymous group at 4Chan to punish the company for its treatment of Wikileaks.

Paypal wants to replace credit cards in stores

Posted August 17, 2010 - 10:33 by Mark Raby

For the first time, well, pretty much ever, the credit card oligopoly faces mounting competition from budding alternative payment options at retail stores, the latest of which comes from Paypal.