Tag Archives: transactions

Angry Birds Go! Stretches Physical-Virtual Divide To Confusion Point

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In-app purchasing may be making headlines, but is only part of the issue. Families need cost transparency — particularly in the complex ecosystem of toy-video-game crossovers. Angry Birds Go! doesn’...
    






Apple agrees to refund $32.5M for kids’ purchases

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Apple to refund $32.5M to parents who say they unwittingly OK'd purchases during kids' games WASHINGTON (AP) — Plenty of parents have been there — handing over the iPhone or iPad to a...
    






Cloud Providers May Not Be Ready For Big Data Onslaught, Users Fear

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We know full well why many organizations are avoiding public cloud — they’re nervous about security. However, seasoned cloud adopters that have locked down their security have another concern on...
    






Bitcoin Breaks Out, You Can Now Pay The IRS In Cryptocurrency

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As bitcoin moves away from being known only to the tech cognoscenti and becomes a real viable currency that is adopted broadly, more organizations arise that look to leverage all this attention and...
    






Why Even North Korea Outpaces The U.S. In Credit Card Security

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The ever-worsening news from Target’s breach of credit card and customer data highlights the need to implement a more secure U.S. system to process our card payments. In recent articles, I have...
    






Charity Begins At 50? Codswallop!

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Before he died this past December, hedge fund manager and philanthropist Robert W. Wilson had done many notable things. In the ‘70s, he’d survived what Forbes called “the most catastrophic short play...
    






TapSense Releases Latest Mobile Marketing User Guide

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It was clearly a great year for mobile marketing. Consumers are spending more than half their time online on the mobile web and smartphone conversion rates prove how lucrative that habit is for...
    






Will Overstock Force IRS To Make Up Its Mind About Bitcoin?

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Overstock raised eyebrows earlier this month when the retailer announced it would accept Bitcoin as payment. While Bitcoin has slowly been making inroads into the U.S. economy, Overstock is by far...
    






Bitcoin Anonymity Upgrade Zerocoin To Become An Independent Cryptocurrency

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When a group of cryptographers launched Zerocoin last year, they hoped their cryptography project could upgrade Bitcoin to be as anonymous as its most privacy-focused users have always wanted it to...
    






A $100 Worth Of Litecoin A Year Ago Is Worth $30,000 Today

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Last month, we subjected readers to a hindsight lament: How you should have spent $100 at the beginning of 2013. Using the Forbes time travel machine, we went back to last January and dropped...