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Unhappy With Your Bank? Blame Silicon Valley

Patrice Peyret | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Mastercard, Credit Cards, Financial Services, Visa, Debit Cards, Venture Capitalists, Venture Capital, Business News

Given the misdeeds of the banking industry, the financial services sector could make huge improvements simply by focusing on serving the ill-served with better, faster and cheaper products.

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Beyond Baseball

Laura Ziskin | Posted 11.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Terrence Howard, Minka Kelly, Beyond Baseball, Stand Up to Cancer, Mastercard, World Series, Katie Couric, Entertainment News

Stand Up To Cancer's call-to-action at Saturday's World Series game tapped into the best of baseball, and the best in corporate sponsorship on an issue that affects us all.

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Giving Credit Where Credit Will Do: How the Banks Have Changed the Rules Halfway Through the Game

Nelson Montana | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Cards, Consumer Debt, Bankruptcy, Bailout, Visa, Finance, Economy, Mastercard, Banks, Interest Rates, Money, Congress, Business News

The way it stands with credit card companies these days, you might be better off dealing with loan sharks. At least they'll warn you before breaking your legs. The banks sneak up behind you and do it.

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Prepaid Debit Cards Hide Enormous Fees

nytimes.com | ANDREW MARTIN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Prepaid Debit Cards, Mastercard, Micash, Visa, Consumer Federation of America, Green Dot, Business News

For many people who do not have bank accounts, or cannot get a credit card, the appeal is irresistible, making the reloadable cards among the consumer...

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Games That Give - Sudoku Never Felt So Good

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Mastercard, Feeding America, Ronald Mcdonald House Charities, dosomething.org, Charity, Pepsi, Domino's Pizza, Games That Give, Impact News

Games That Give has a simple motto: "You Play. We Donate. No Catch." That really is how it works. They sell advertising on their site, you play games...

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ATM Skimming Identity Theft Reaches $1 Billion in Losses

Robert Siciliano | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Cybersecurity, Mastercard, Visa, Identity Theft, Atm, Atm Scams, Business News

Skimming can occur in a few different ways. The most common is when a store clerk takes your card and runs it through a device that copies the information from the magnetic strip.

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7 Ways Credit Cards Can Rob You Blind

minyanville.com | Scott Reeves | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Card Reform, Credit Card Rates, Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Bank of America, Credit Card, Credit Card Debt, Business News

It's difficult to rent a car or buy a plane ticket without a major credit card like Visa (V), MasterCard (MA), or American Express (AXP)....

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Plastic Surgery

Ina Pinkney | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: American Express, Diners Club, Visa, Interchange Rates, Debit Cards, INA's, Banks, Discover, Mastercard, Credit Card Industry, Credit Card Fees, Chicago News

I propose a new way of thinking about transactions that is based on paying cash as a bridge to connect human beings in relationships of service.

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Free Visa -- and MasterCard, Too

Jim Jaffe | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Mastercard, Banking Crisis, Banks, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Business News

There's a word that describes people who spend money -- whether they use cash or cards. That word is customer.

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Your Credit Card Company is Spying on You

Carine Fabius | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Mastercard, Banks, Obama, Credit Cards, Credit Card Debt, American Express, Visa, Credit Card Industry, Financial Crisis, Business News

Let's start using debit cards and cash as much as we can to help f*#@! the credit card companies.

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Credit Card Summit: "Charge!"

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business

Read More: American Express, Obama and Credit Cards, Bank of America, Credit Cards, Visa, Barney Frank, Bank and Credit Cards, Citibank, House of Representatives and Credit Cards, Bank Bailout, Mastercard, Barack Obama, House Financial Services Committee, Obama Administration, Business News

Wasn't the government shoveling billions of dollars at these very same banks to help them? And to pick this moment to stick it to the people with higher interest rates, and lower credit limits, and hidden fees?

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Credit Card Breach: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover Customers Vulnerable

New York Times | ERIC DASH and BRAD STONE | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business

Read More: American Express, Credit Cards, Heartland Payment Systems, Visa, Discover Financial, Credit Card Breach, Discover, Mastercard, Business News

Heartland Payment Systems, a major payment processing company, disclosed a data breach on Monday that potentially exposed tens of millions of cred...

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MasterCard To Issue Diamond-Studded Cards

Financial Times | Jeremy Grant | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Mastercard Diamond, Mastercard, Credit Cards, Credit Card Diamonds, Business News

Markets are plunging, banks are collapsing and talk of recession is all about, but the global gloom is not stopping the launch of a MasterCard credit ...

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Mr. Bill Returns (In One Piece) To Pitch A Debit Card

New York Times | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Mr. Bill Mastercard Ad, Mr. Bill MasterCard, Saturday Night Live, Mr. Bill, Mastercard, Business News

MasterCard executives have found a new poster boy for the angst-ridden economy: Mr. Bill. The small clay figure that appeared in "Saturday Night Live...

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Security Breach Exposes 4.2M Credit, Debit Cards

AP | David Sharp | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Hannaford, Hannaford Bros, Security Breach, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Supermarket Chains, Mastercard, Business News

A security breach at an East Coast supermarket chain exposed more than 4 million card numbers and led to 1,800 cases of fraud, the Hannaford Bros. gro...

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How The Press Failed Readers On The Changing Credit Card Industry

Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Credit Card, Credit Card War, Credit Card Companies, Chase, Dean Starkman, Dean Starkman Credit Cards, Changing Credit, CJR Credit Cards, Changing Credit Card Industry, Hsbc, The Wall Street Journal, Discover, The Financial Times, American Express, Visa, Press Ignores Changing Credit Card Industry, Dean Starkman CJR, Dean Starkman Credit, CJR Credit, Business Week, Credit Card Company, Deam Starkman Columbia Journalism Review, Bank of America, Credit Cards, Fortune, Columbia Journalism Review, Citi, Mastercard, Credit War, Press Ignores Economy, Wachovia, Forbes, Credit, Cjr, Media News

One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...

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Visa's IPO: The Next Big Thing

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: MasterCard IPO, Biggest IPO, Kraft Food, AT&T, Sec, Largest IPO, Visa, Securities and Exchange Commission, Mastercard, Visa IPO, Initial Public Offering, Business News

On Monday, Visa announced that it was looking to raise $19 billion from its initial public offering (IPO), which would make it the largest in U.S. his...

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