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World of Warcraft Removes 30-Day Sign-Up Option!
I’ll freely admit that it’s been more than a few years now since I managed to successfully escape the clutches of World of Warcraft. That being said though, I do occasionally like to dip my toe back in every now and then just to see what I’ve been missing. Just,…
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Gamers Abandon Purchases Due To Slow Check-Out Processes
Gamers Abandon Purchases Buying a PC game online, you are often a bit spoilt for choice. You do, of course, have Steam and a number of other sources where game codes can be purchased. It seems, however, that the payment process is putting a lot of people off. In a…
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Card Payments Finally Beat Cash Transactions In UK
Card Transactions Finally Top Cash Payments It’s no surprise that in recent years we all look to pay and buy things more with our cards rather than carry cash. In truth, I can not honestly remember the last cash purchase I made. With the implementation of the contactless debit and…
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Visa Payment Problems Resolved After Europe Wide Failure
Visa Payment Problems Are Now Resolved The last 24 hours have given many customers some big headaches. With Visa being the most popular format for debit card payments in the UK and Europe a service failure found many in the awkward position of attempting to pay for goods only to…
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PayPal Buys iZettle In a Deal Worth $2.2bn
PayPal Announce Purchase of Swedish Start-Up Company iZettle for $2.2bn When it comes to online payments, PayPal is without a doubt one of the best-known companies. While iZettle was perhaps not as well known, they were doing a pretty effective job at finding a strong niche in the market. Particularly…
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Major Card Payment Error Sees Tesco Billing Customers Months After Visit
Tesco, Every Little Helps? For the weekly shop, for years, Tesco has been one of the major retailers. A big development for the company was the expansion of their smaller ‘express’ stores. Customers who regularly use them, however, might want to check their bank accounts. A major processing error of…
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eBay Set to Drop PayPal As Main Payment Processor
eBay Set To Drop Paypal Despite alternative websites appearing in recent years, eBay is, pretty much, still the go-to website for buying or selling your unwanted stuff. For years now, the main payment source eBay accepted was via PayPal. A new deal, however, will see the relationship as the primary…
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Amazon May be Preparing to Accept Bitcoin as Payment
Amazon preparing to accept Bitcoin payment The way in which Bitcoin and crypto-currencies, in general, have grown in the last year is frankly astonishing. Time and time again we find ourselves astonished that Bitcoin reaches a new peak. Mostly, however, we find ourselves deeply annoyed that we didn’t get involved…
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New Digital Cards To Help Banks Combat Online Fraud
Banks in the UK could soon be rolling out a new type of card, which would majorly reduce cases of online fraud. This new type of card would see the 3 digit security number on the reverse of the card replaced by a randomly generated number which changes every 20…
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Acer Exposes Bank Details During Breach
It is never nice when you find out something that affects you second hand, but that’s just what has happened for thousands of Acer buyers when the company revealed that they had been hacked in a recent revelation to California’s Attorney General that it had been subject to an in-depth security breach.…
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Visa’s Payment Ring Will Debut at the Rio Olympics
How we pay for things changes almost as quickly as the technology it uses, with us doing away with metal coins and paper notes for plastic notes and cards. These days you don’t even need to use your card directly, instead being able to tap your card against the payment…
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Walmart Suing Visa to Ensure Customers Use Pin
Remember when you got that new bank card through the post and the first thing you forgot to do was sign the back of the card? This signature is used to protect your card and help you prove who you are, even sometimes authorising payments. The latter of these uses…
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iTunes Allowance to Shutdown Next Month
iTunes allowance is a service that allowed parents to place money into their child’s iTunes account on a monthly basis. No need to allow them to borrow your card or even for you to type into or access their account, preventing you from hundreds of pounds of charges to your…
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You Could Pay For Things With Your Facebook Messenger App Soon
Facebook let you send money to friends through the Facebook Messenger app at the moment, but you could end up being able to spend money in the messenger app as well with some news that the messenger could soon have in-store purchases. The new feature would be included in a…
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Amazon Patents Selfie-Pose Authentication Technology
Amazon is known for their increased use of technology. Keen to use drones in their delivery process and even leasing out a new set of jets in order to speed up their delivery processes, the company seems to be stopping at nothing to control the delivery market. The next step…
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