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Card.com to Introduce Star Trek Prepaid Card
5/17/2013
While not boldly going where no man has gone before, Card.com announced that it plans to release a new prepaid card from CBS Consumer Products which feature many of the famous characters of the much beloved Star Trek television series...
Mobile Wallet Provider Gyft Starts Accepting Bitcoins
5/15/2013
Gyft, a company that provides mobile wallets for gift cards, announced that it has entered a partnership with BitPay Inc. to accept the virtual currency Bitcoin for the purchase of closed loop gift cards.  From Gyft's press release   Customers...
Governments Continue to Tighten Fence Around Bitcoin Transfers
5/15/2013
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a court order to Dwolla to cease wire transfers between it accounts and Mt. Gox, a Japanese Bitcoin exchange. This action keeps the downward pressure on Bitcoin exchanges and echo’s similar recent actions...
Virtual-Currency Flux: Microsoft Points Reportedly Gone While Amazon Launches Coins
5/15/2013
Technology blog The Verge this morning reported Microsoft will abandon the Points system for its Xbox 360 video game console in favor of a gift card system, and credit and debit cards. Microsoft reportedly will make the change in time...
Prepaid Card Provider Akimbo Raises Money to Make Prepaid Multi-Platform
5/14/2013
Prepaid card provider Akimbo wants to make prepaid cards work well across plastic, mobile, and Internet based platforms and encourage people to use prepaid as a way to send money. From TechCrunch Like LevelUp, Akimbo wants to stand out from...
Big ATM Hack Perpetuates Myths About Prepaid Cards
5/13/2013
Since a group of hackers broke into a processor and pulled $45 million out of ATMs using prepaid cards, the media has been atwitter about how prepaid cards are a tool for criminals and maniacs as they misunderstand what happened....
Google Reportedly Scraps Companion Credit Card for Google Wallet
5/10/2013
Google is planning to release updates to its mobile wallet at its developer conference next week, but a companion won’t be one of them according to tech bloggers following the company. AllThingsD reported the news about the card and that...
Post-Recession Consumers Redefined as Savers Redefines an Industry
5/10/2013
As we move away from the recession, more data is emerging that validates a permanent change took place in the way United States consumers view the value of spending versus saving. Gallup’s most recent poll underscores this with results that...
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