Ecommerce Journal

Heartland will pay $5 million to Discover: last settlement in a data breach case

Petrony — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:19:40 +0000

The last settlement related to the data breach has been achieved by Heartland Payment Systems. The payment processor has agreed to pay up to $5 million to Discover Financial Services in relation to a massive data compromise that hit the company in 2008.

Last January the payment processing firm revealed that malicious software in its processing system had been found, potentially compromising the card data of millions of people.

Sweet Earning VS Precious Fund: battle of investment projects

fairyjadoo — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:31:46 +0000

Our battle of investment project analysis for today involves two websites where we do our analysis on them consists of the ins and outs of the investment programs and they are https://www.sweetearning.com/ and https://www.preciousfund.com/.

Microsoft to sell 3 licenses for Windows 7 Home Premium for just $149

Petrony — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:16:37 +0000

Microsoft has announced that is launches again Windows 7 Family Packs, which ship with three upgrade licenses for Windows 7 Home Premium for $150.

Forex trends: euro strengthens on ECB interest rate announcement waiting

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:04:30 +0000

The Euro zone single revealed firmness versus its key opponents in late European deals as traders are expecting the release of European Central Bank's interest rate announcement. The 16-nation single thus reached a fresh 3-week high against its UK counterpart. On the other hand, the euro that fell in early European session against the dollar, yen and the franc reversed its direction after 3:40 am ET.

Baidu will focus its mobile Internet investments on search business

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:42:46 +0000

As Baidu announced Thursday, it intends to focus its future mobile Internet investments on its core search business, targeting to dominate the next big Internet space.

According to Baidu representative, China’s leading search engine sees its broader future investment priorities to include mobile Internet and ecommerce initiatives in the B2C space.

Buck behaves variously ahead of US economic reports & ECB interest rate decision

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:55:48 +0000

During early European deals, the US major revealed mixed performance across the board as investors' remained wary ahead of the ECB interest rate announcement and various US economic reports.

Forex trends: pound slips as UK house prices dropped more than expected

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:41:29 +0000

Thursday, in early European trading, the British pound edged down against most majors as a report from the Nationwide Building Society showed that house prices in UK dropped more than expected in August. The UK currency was also diminished by decline in European stocks after an early surge.

Apple launches next generation operating systems: iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2

Petrony — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:29:12 +0000

At the company’s “special event” in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, the CEO of Apple Inc Steve Jobs unveiled the next two generations of iOS, updates that will bring multiplayer gaming and high-definition photography to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches next week and wireless printing and media streaming in November.

PayPal is collaborating with Green Dot on special promotion

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:21:07 +0000

PayPal is delighted to announce, it’s working with Green Dot, MoneyPak provider, on a special promotion that is set to kick off today.

The certain promotion runs this year from September 1st through November 14th and will give $10 to all PayPal customers who try MoneyPak for the first time, as well as the chance to win $1,000 every day in a daily drawing.

Facebook launches gift cards with loaded Credits

Petrony — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:05:43 +0000

Facebook will be offering gift cards preloaded with Credits at retail stores across the United States. The first to offer the cards will be the Target supermarket chain.

The Facebook gift cards will be sold in the values of $15, $25 and $50 at all of Target's 1750 retail stores and at Target.com. The gift cards on display at Target were created by GMG Entertainment which also produces Apple's iTunes cards.

Will Google manage to keep its workforce from evasion to Facebook?

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:12:14 +0000

Targeting to cease employees leak to Facebook, Google has started offering money to keep its best workers.

It’s well known that over the recent months, Facebook has been working hard to recruit talent from Google. Thus, Android Product Manager Erick Tseng left Google for Facebook.

eBay further bejewels its PayPal service by discarding Google Checkout

Petrony — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:51:27 +0000

According to the latest reports an online auction giant eBay will no longer support Google Checkout payment system starting next July. Users won’t be allowed to use any checkout service except eBay’s own payment processor PayPal.

Explaining the move the company says it wants “to give eBay buyers a consistent, speedy checkout experience and to ensure support for fast-growing sales via mobile platforms...,” Todd Lutwak, eBay’s vice president of the seller experience, wrote in a little-noticed blog post last week.

What browser is leading the market even so: Internet Explorer or Firefox?

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:43:35 +0000

According to the data from the Net Applications regarding to browser market share in August, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 holds its leadership, advancing all its rivals in growth.

However, elder Internet Explorer 6, an outdated and insecure browser, refuses to die down, though it’s losing ground violently.

First Data makes its card data tokenization solution public for all

Petrony — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:42:54 +0000

First Data Corp announced that now its First Data® TransArmorSM solution is publicly available. Now merchant of all sizes can avail of the service via First Data’s network of resale partners. First Data anticipates that more than 100,000 merchants will be securely processing transactions with the TransArmor solution by the end of the year.

Will Perfect Money allow loan operations? Obscure new options

Petrony — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:25:55 +0000

More and more users of the payment system perfect money are discussing the changes introduced by the company which are for some reason not made public by the management of the payment processor itself. Customers of Perfect Money noticed, in particular, that they have some new options inside their accounts which are:

- Credit status
- Trust score

The Credit status option can be seen soon after you log into your account on your main page. At the moment, as many users report, they see “Normal, no overdue loans” note in the Credit status field.

Forex trends:franc moves up after better-than-expected Swiss Q2 GDP data release

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:14:32 +0000

The alpine franc gained ground versus its main opponents in early European session today, following the release of a better-than-expected second quarter GDP report from Switzerland. The franc thus recovered from a 2-day low against the dollar and the yen.

PS3 hacking dongle is now available in the Web

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:59:26 +0000

PlayStation 3 hacking dongle that represents a build-your-own kit, PSGroove, has appeared in the Web.

PSGroove comprises software that can be downloaded and run on a specific type of USB Flash drive and used in much the same way the PSJailbreak dongle can.

Why Nokia plans to close down its Ovi Files service?

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:56:18 +0000

As it became known, Nokia decided to shut down its Ovi Files service.

The service lets users access their computer data remotely.

As the company representatives announced, Nokia is discontinuing the Ovi Files service, effective October 1, 2010.

Liberty Reserve reportedly follows e-gold’s fate with anti-money laundering

Petrony — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:47:18 +0000

liberty reserve has recently introduced an anti-money laundering policy which was accepted by some users as a potential threat to their funds and subsequent devaluation of the services offered by the payment processor and as a result liquidity diminution.

The new policy says:

LIBERTY RESERVE S.A. views Money Laundering as a serious criminal offence, and as such, complies with regulatory requirements intended to forestall and prevent money laundering.
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Microsoft finally puts its Windows Phone 7 into production

kara deniz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:44:10 +0000

Microsoft announced on Wednesday, code for Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing. The company thus meant original equipment manufacturers who made Microsoft's tight cut as phone suppliers can start installing version 1.0 of Microsoft's smartphone operating system on devices.

Windows Phone 7 has undergone tests on nearly 10,000 devices per day and subjected to nearly 10 million hours of tests.
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