The End of Discount Based Merchant Residuals
And so it begins. Merchant Warehouse today began offering free processing for the month of January. In part, as a means of recovering some lost business to Paypal and Google Checkout, but in part to test the waters of what the EU ruling really will mean to the merchant service provider industry.
If you have deep [...]
Hollywood Dotcom–The Cast
Hollywood Dotcom: The Cast–in no particular order
(comparing companies and dotcoms to Hollywood counterparts)
apple, Google, iphone, lindsay lohan, madonna, microsoft, paris hilton, perez hilton,
30Dec2007 | James Blunts | 7 comments | ContinuedVirtual “Stolen” Credit Cards??
For more than a year now, a shocking underground scheme has been building steam and no one seems to be paying attention. eBay, Paypal, Google, and many online providers utilize credit cards as a means of verifying identity. Makes sense right? Charge a few smaller transactions, typically less than $1.00 and if the user can [...]
29Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 9 comments | ContinuedMerchants maybe risking millions in fines while using Google Checkout
From time to time, major companies miss their PCI certification deadlines. It’s not uncommon and in fact it has been a problem that many major companies have faced. The certification process is daunting, expensive and time consuming and must be completed annually but with that said, what’s going on with Google?
Visa USA Inc. maintains a [...]
Eight Predictions for 2008.
This will be my first predictions list, let’s see how many I get right. Sorry, this list isn’t for the weak at heart, you’ve been warned.
1) Google will suffer a major security breach.
Nearly 750,000 advertisers use their credit cards on Google accounting for nearly 3,000,000 unique credit card numbers. Millions more consumers use Google Checkout, [...]
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