Adobe Systems Inc. is reporting one of its servers has been hacked, with attackers getting a look at the customer IDs and encrypted passwords of as many as 2.9 million users. In a
Published on: October 4th, 2013
Candice So
@candice_so
Mobile payments may have solidified themselves as an industry buzzword, but they won’t catch on with consumers until more retailers bring them into their brick-and-mortar stores, according to payment solutions provider Ingenico Corp.
Published on: September 30th, 2013
Candice So
@candice_so
Merchants using Shopify Inc. to power their storefronts are now getting two big changes to how they run transactions – they can now directly charge online customers through Shopify instead of using a
Published on: August 28th, 2013
Candice So
@candice_so
Everyone’s been talking about mobile payments, but for something that’s supposed to be such a hot topic, not a lot of people are using them. But if you’re running a small business, and
Published on: August 27th, 2013
Candice So
@candice_so
Flush with VC cash, U.S. startup Stripe has brought its online payments platform to the Canadian market. What Stripe has to offer is an easy sell to Canada's busy, resourcestarved SMBs who want
Published on: September 19th, 2012
Christine Wong
@thatchriswong
Until the corner variety store in your neighbourhood installs a near field communication (NFC)-enabled payment terminal and your aunt feels comfortable paying for milk with her smartphone, it will take some time for
Published on: June 6th, 2012
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
by Stuart Crawford Keeping customer information secure has always been a necessity. Not long ago, customer information got locked away in a file cabinet somewhere to which only a select few had a
Published on: April 23rd, 2012
Stuart Crawford
@itbusinessca
A Vancouver-based start-up company is competing against some big players in the financial services industry by offering small businesses a way to accept credit card payments with a smartphone or tablet.Payfirma Corp. was
Criminals are embracing methods to trap debit and credit cards in automated teller machines (ATMs) for retrieval later, a move believed to be motivated by better security measures designed to ensure card details
Published on: October 20th, 2011
Jeremy Kirk
@itbusinessca
With many small businesses just trying to stay afloat following a deep economic recession, waiting around to get paid just shouldn't be an option, according to one financial software company.Intuit Canada, makers of
Published on: May 11th, 2011
Harmeet Singh
@itbusinessca
Credit card providers need to hop on the mobile payment bandwagon or experience a further deterioration in their already grim situation, experts warn. In the span of two years, the card payment industry
Published on: April 23rd, 2010
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
While participating in a Greater Toronto Area (GTA) electronic fare pilot, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) seems to be eyeing a different payment system from the rest of the region.In a statement, chair
Published on: April 19th, 2010
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
Having $2 billion a year in transactions doesn’t help matters if you want to avoid a cyber-criminal’s attention.But that’s the amount that PayPal Inc. processes in Canadian purchases alone each year, and it’s
I'm Joaquim Menezes, senior online editor at IT Business. Our guest today is Jas Anand, product and risk strategy manager at Actimize. We've had Jas on this program before. Today he's going to
Published on: September 3rd, 2009
Joaquim P. Menezes
@itbusinessca
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