American Express, through its venture capital arm American Express Ventures, is looking to use its recent investment in bitcoin remittance startup Abra’s $12m Series A as a way to more closely observe the digital currency industry and the technology behind it. Link: How AmEx is ‘Testing the Waters’ of Bitcoin and the Blockchain
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McDonald’s has teamed up with Ant Financial — the financial services subsidiary of Alibaba, China’s largest ecommerce player — to start accepting mobile payments in more than 2,100 of its restaurants in China using Alipay. (Think of Apple Pay or Android Pay in the U.S.) Link: McDonald’s now accepts ‘two-second’ mobile payments in China amid big
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An unpatched vulnerability affecting PayPal’s mobile applications can be exploited to access restricted accounts and even bypass the two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism, a researcher claims. Link: PayPal Mobile Apps Plagued by Authentication Flaw: Researcher
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An unpatched vulnerability affecting PayPal’s mobile applications can be exploited to access restricted accounts and even bypass the two-factor authentication (2FA) mechanism, a researcher claims. Link: PayPal Mobile Apps Plagued by Authentication Flaw: Researcher
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Discover announced that it has reached an agreement with Apple Pay, allowing Discover cardholders to add cards to Apple Pay Passbook systems starting this fall. Link: Apple Pay Adds Support for Discover Cards
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