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The prestigious New Jersey Skin and Laser Clinic has a unique, instant gift certificate system that allows customers to personalize their cards and vouchers for any occasion.
Summit, New Jersey (PRWEB) May 22, 2013
Integrated Printing Solutions has formed an exclusive partnership with Aurora Financial Systems, Inc. to offer an innovative marketing tool to companies that offer Medicare Advantage Health and Wellness Plans. The incentive health card rewards members for completing 3 out of 12 preferred health screenings and is designed to encourage health and wellness for members.
Denver CO and Purchase, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2013
The international banking community in London came together recently, at the Stationers Hall, for the Association of Foreign Banks’ two-day conference. A host of leading industry voices spoke on a range of topical issues and challenges including payments, treasury management, financial transaction tax (FTT), Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and operational risk.
"With the virtual store, we are taking online shopping to the next level by touching base with our customers and allowing them to shop from anywhere, anytime," says the online fashion and lifestyle portal's Nikhil Rungta.
"With the virtual store, we are taking online shopping to the next level by touching base with our customers and allowing them to shop from anywhere, anytime," says the online fashion and lifestyle portal's Nikhil Rungta.
Boost Mobile, the pre-paid subsidiary of US telco Sprint, is to move into the mobile financial services market with the launch of a full-service virtual wallet account linked to a physical Visa pre-paid card.
The Boost Mobile Wallet, developed by Wipit, comes complete with a reloadable Visa cash card that can be used at all Visa-affiliated stores and ATMs.
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The Wallet app can also be used to pay bills and transfer cash to friends in 135 countries through RIA Financial's international remittance network. Boost says it also plans to add a smart deposit facility so users can scan cheques on their Android smartphones and load them into their account.
Contactless specialist On Track Innovations has received an order for 30,000 NFC and contactless payment readers from a US-based supplier of technology solutions to the retail petroleum industry. The readers include support for Isis's SmartTap payments and offers technology and a custom designed antenna, allowing them to be installed as a kit in the unnamed customer's range of products. All the readers will be shipped this year.
Contactless specialist On Track Innovations has received an order for 30,000 NFC and contactless payment readers from a US-based supplier of technology solutions to the retail petroleum industry. The readers include support for Isis's SmartTap payments and offers technology and a custom designed antenna, allowing them to be installed as a kit in the unnamed customer's range of products. All the readers will be shipped this year.
Audio electronics maker SuperTooth has unveiled new Bluetooth headphones that can pair with other devices via NFC. The over-the-ear Freedom headphones, shown at CTIA this week, have a battery life of up to 15 hours and include controls to play, pause, change volume and change track. The headphones will be available this summer for US$149 in white, black or blue.
Audio electronics maker SuperTooth has unveiled new Bluetooth headphones that can pair with other devices via NFC. The over-the-ear Freedom headphones, shown at CTIA this week, have a battery life of up to 15 hours and include controls to play, pause, change volume and change track. The headphones will be available this summer for US$149 in white, black or blue.
Think&Go has announced that Orange and mobile phone retailer Avenir Telecom are to trial its Dynamic NFC-Screens, which allow information to be transferred from a video screen to NFC phones. Orange will showcase the screens at a major sports event while Avenir will pilot the screens in Marseille. The screens will be commercially available from June 2013 with prices starting at €3,000.
Think&Go has announced that Orange and mobile phone retailer Avenir Telecom are to trial its Dynamic NFC-Screens, which allow information to be transferred from a video screen to NFC phones. Orange will showcase the screens at a major sports event while Avenir will pilot the screens in Marseille. The screens will be commercially available from June 2013 with prices starting at €3,000.
The National Retail Federation announced today that it will formally oppose a proposed settlement of a federal antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees charged by Visa and MasterCard, and urged retailers to carefully consider their own decisions before next week's deadline set by the court.
"The proposed settlement does nothing to bring swipe fees under control and would give Visa and MasterCard a legal blessing to continue their abuse of merchants and consumers indefinitely," NRF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Mallory Duncan said. "No settlement at all would be better than this one-sided 'agreement' written by the card companies for the card companies that would tie retailers' hands for decades to come."
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While many retailers have already filed paperwork with the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., opposing the settlement, many small retailers have yet to act because they lack the legal expertise and resources to fully assess the complicated proposal. Retailers who oppose the plan have until May 28 to say whether they will opt out of the money offered and accompanying restrictions on future legal action, object to proposed injunctive relief that comes with additional restrictions, or - as NRF plans - do both. Under the class action terms of the proposed agreement, retailers who do not opt out by the deadline will automatically be considered to have accepted the settlement and will give up the right to file future lawsuits over the fees and other restrictive rules.
