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Finextra weekly news review podcast

Oracle offers to buy Sun Microsystems; Comscore statistics show that online banking usage is still growing in Europe and the US; new launches and suppliers for European dark pools; and Bank of America, MasterCard, Visa, Obopay, Google and Walmart all get embroiled in an e-payments patent dispute. It's all in this week's news review podcast.

24 April 2009

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Google search reveals stolen credit card details

The credit card details of 19,000 Brits have been found on a cached Google page, where they had been accidentally published by fraudsters.

31 March 2009

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ING betas Android ATM locater

Dutch bank ING has launched a new application for T-Mobile's G1 Google phone that combines the built-in GPS technology with the handset's compass and camera to 'point' users in the direction of the nearest bank ATM.

02 February 2009

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Bank of America offers m-banking apps for Google Android

Bank of America has become the first bank to offer a mobile phone application on Google's Android Market, which opened for business Wednesday with 50 apps available for download.

23 October 2008

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Visa plans m-payments apps for Android

Card network Visa is developing mobile payments software for handsets that run on Google's new phone operating system, Android.

26 September 2008

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Amazon launches online payments services for merchants

Internet retailer Amazon is taking on PayPal and Google in the e-payments market by launching two new services that enable online merchants to use its payments functionality on their e-commerce sites in the US.

30 July 2008

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Citi m-banking technology compatible with Android

Mobile Money Ventures (MMV) - the joint venture set up by Citi and South Korea's SK Telecom - is developing a banking application that will be compatible with Google's new mobile phone operating system, Android.

24 June 2008

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Tech giants team on Internet ID cards

Google, Microsoft and PayPal are among a group of technology firms that are joining forces to promote the use of virtual online identity cards - rather than user names and passwords - for conducting transactions via the Web.

24 June 2008

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Nyse to sell market data to Internet sites

The New York Stock Exchange (Nyse) is gearing up to launch a low-cost real-time market data service for delivery over personal finance Web sites. The move follows earlier deals by Nasdaq OMX and Bats Trading to distribute market data to new media giants such as Google and Yahoo!.

12 June 2008

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Nasdaq OMX launches free real-time market data service

Market operator Nasdaq OMX has launched a free-of-charge real-time market data service that will be delivered by Google, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and Xignite.

02 June 2008

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Jump in adoption of alternative payment methods

Around 30% of US online retailers now offer customers the option to use alternative payment methods (APM) - such as Google Checkout, PayPal and Bill me Later - which is a 25% increase since February 2007, according to a poll conducted by interactive marketing firm Brulant.

16 January 2008

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Google patents SMS payments system

The publication of a patent filing has fuelled specualtion that Internet search engine Google is gearing up to launch a payments service, dubbed GPay, that would enable users to pay for purchases using SMS text messages.

03 September 2007

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