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223 results about this entity

Period: 25 May 2007 - 08 Feb 2024

PayPal unveils micropayments system; Facebook on board

PayPal has signed up a slew of big names, including Facebook and FT.com, to a new micropayments system for digital goods and services.

ASB Bank launches 'virtual branch' on facebook

New Zealand's ASB Bank is trialling a "virtual branch" on facebook where people can "talk" to staff about their finances.

Facebook to sell virtual currency gift cards at US retail stores

Social media giant facebook is to offer gift cards loaded with Credits at retail stores across the US, beginning with the Target supermarket chain.

HSBC taps facebook for student bursary competition

HSBC is bidding to bag young customers with a competition on facebook giving students the chance to win £15,000 bursaries.

Regulators turn up the heat on social media-linked scammers

The US Financial Inustry Regulatory Authority (Finra) has warned investors to be on their guard against social media-linked ponzi schemes, in which scam artists use YouTube, Twitter and facebook to promote high-yield investment programmes (Hyips) with the promise of unrealistically high returns.

Facebook moves virtual currency offline

Social network facebook is taking its virtual currency to the streets of South East Asia through a partnership with Internet payment group MOL Global.

ANZ staffers used fake facebook profile to spy on customers

ANZ is investigating allegations that members of its debt collection department set up a fake facebook profile in order to befriend customers with bad credit and track down their current contact details.

FaceTime beefs up social networking policing app

FaceTime Communications has upgraded its Web gateway for firms looking to monitor and control employee content posted to blogs, wikis and social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

'Hackers' take over bank's IT network with info found online

Tapping information found online at sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, an anti-hacking specialist has successfully taken over the entire IT infrastructure of a client bank.

From facebook friends to Al'Qaeda: lessons from the banking crisis

From facebook friends to Al'Qaeda terrorist cells, the Bank of England's cerebral executive director for financial stability Andrew Haldane draws on a rich variety of source material to argue that banks with assets over $100 billion may be just too complex to manage.

Could Facebook wipe out the banking industry?

Social networking site Facebook has the potential to wipe out the traditional banking industry by moving agressively into peer-to-peer lending, says Thomas Power, CEO of online business network ecademy.

Social media users warned of insurance hikes

People who use social media tools that can reveal their location, such as Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Buzz, could face hikes in home insurance premiums, according to price comparison site Confused.com.