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American Express is to offer cardholders the ability to sync their plastic to Twitter so that when they tweet using special offer hashtags, couponless savings are loaded directly to their cards.
07 March 2012
Barclaycard US has unveiled a crowdsourced 'social credit card' that will have its features shaped by an online community of users.
06 March 2012
Google chairman Eirc Schmidt says the Internet search giant once considered creating its own peer-to-peer money system, dubbed Google Bucks, but binned the idea because of regulatory concerns.
01 March 2012
American Express has launched a Facebook app for its Serve digital wallet platform, enabling customers to send, receive and request money from directly within the social network.
Standard Bank's decision to tell the Twitterverse that it planned to take rival FNB to South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) appears to have backfired, drawing scorn on the social networking site.
28 February 2012
UK start-up Vidivici has launched a beta version of its community-powered investment search engine, which pools the views of users, examines them and then taps the data to offer tailored trading advice.
24 February 2012
UK bank first direct has overhauled its Web site after collecting ideas from customers through its crowdsourcing portal.
20 February 2012
American Express is partnering with Twitter to give away $1 million in free advertising to small businesses who sign up for a new promotional service on the microblogging Web site.
17 February 2012
Romance and humour may not be qualities typically associated with the Federal Reserve but economists have taken to Twitter to show their creative sides under the #FedValentines hashtag.
13 February 2012
Australia's ANZ is to cut 1000 middle management, back office and support jobs by the end of 2012 in response to higher costs, regulatory demands and weakened consumer buying.
UK-based mobile billing and analytics firm Bango says it has signed an agreement to "provide payment services to Facebook".
08 February 2012
Reuters has launched a new social media hub, providing a real-time sentiment guide to what news, companies and people are hot on the Web.
03 February 2012
Turkey's Garanti Bank is to start offering its Bonus cardholders free Facebook Credits when they use their cards to make online and offline purchases.
Facebook pulled in revenues of $557 million from its payments business in 2011 as its decision to force games developers to use its virtual currency bared fruit, according to the social network's IPO filings.
02 February 2012
Microblogging search outfit Topsy Labs is to release a Twitter sentiment analysis tool later this year to investors looking for guidance on stock-price moves after demonstrating impressive market-beating results on Netflix and Apple stock.
25 January 2012
India's ICICI has launched a Facebook app that lets customers carry out banking tasks without leaving the social network.
18 January 2012
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is celebrating its one year anniversary on Facebook with a new milestone of over 100,000 fans.
National Australia Bank has launched a high-tech concept branch in Melbourne, complete with its own NAB scent, pumped into the building to help relax customers.
05 January 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an investment adviser with trying to sell $500 billion-worth of fictitious securities on LinkedIn and other social networking sites.
US bank Citi has unveiled a Facebook application that lets customers pool their loyalty programme reward points.
03 January 2012
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