2005 results about this entity
Period: 26 Feb 2008 - 23 Apr 2025
News
With the hype building ahead of Apple's widely expected step into contactless payments through the upcoming iPhone 5, IDC Financial Insights analyst Aaron McPherson has moved to dampen over-excited expectations.
28 January 2011
UK police have arrested five people in connection with the recent spate of DDoS attacks on Web sites belonging to Mastercard, Visa and PayPal, among others, in support of the WikiLeaks cause.
27 January 2011
Barclaycard and network operator Everything Everywhere are set to launch the UK's first commercial contactless mobile phone payments system this summer.
MasterCard has formed a joint venture with telco giant Telefónica to bring mobile phone-based financial services to 12 Latin American countries.
25 January 2011
MasterCard has nabbed Orange payments chief Mung Ki Woo to head up its mobile payments and commerce initiatives, according to NFC Times.
18 January 2011
Shares in Visa and MasterCard tumbled yesterday after the Federal Reserve Board proposed a 12 cent per transaction cap on debit card interchange fees.
17 December 2010
Canada's Competition Bureau has taken aim at Visa and MasterCard, accusing the firms of "anti-competitive" credit card rules that hurt merchants and customers.
16 December 2010
Online payments company Moneybookers has become the latest firm to feel the wrath of Anonymous, the loose collective of hackers supporting the WikiLeaks cause, after its Web site was downed briefly by a denial of service attack Friday morning.
10 December 2010
MasterCard has acquired the pre-paid Card Program Management operations of Travelex for £290 million in cash.
09 December 2010
Visa.com has become the latest victim of a group of activists calling themselves Anonymous who have taken down the site as retaliation for the card company's decision to cut off payments to whistle-blowing outfit WikiLeaks.
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Michelle Geraghty of MasterCard talks on rewards and the card network's new service with Poste Italiane.
US officials lobbied Russia this year on behalf of MasterCard and Visa over concerns that planned legislation for a national payment card system would "disadvantage" American businesses, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks.
08 December 2010
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