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THESE DAYS when a shiny new banking office sprouts, someone inevitably wonders aloud how close we may be to a tipping point where online banking renders physical locations obsolete. Will this building will be the one too many that shouldn’t have been built? That might have seemed like a silly question in 1995 when, after […]
If you thought Apple’s recent confrontation with the FBI over phone hacking was fun, you’ll love the sequel taking place in China. The People’s Republic of China does not have, shall we say, the regard for freedom of access that we in the United States have. According to a recent article in The New York […]
The Internet has a history of taking services that once required a professional and making them accessible to the Do It Yourself (DYI) crowd. Not that you can expect to end up with the same level of quality you’d expect from a professional. Knowing your way around the likes of, say, desktop publishing, digital music, […]
PayPal has been showing up quite a bit in the news lately, and not just in the business press. Consumers are well aware that PayPal nixed its plans to build a facility in North Carolina following Governor Pat McCrory’s signing of the Public Facilities Privacy and Securities Act. PayPal is making news in the trade […]
But not to Google Wallet. Google Wallet is getting out of the loadable debit card business. A few days ago, an email from the Google Wallet Team told cardholders, “After careful consideration, we’ve decided that we’ll no longer support the Wallet Card as of June 30.” Nor does it appear that Google plans to replace […]