David Bowie: Where Are We Now?
David Bowie celebrates his 66th Birthday with the release of his first single in a decade.
Wal-Mart wants to become your new bank
Wal-Mart just rolled back the price of using a prepaid debit card. Starting last year, the new Bluebird card by American Express will be available at 4,000 Wal-Mart stores across the country and online.
Unlike most prepaid cards, which are loaded with fees, Bluebird can be used fee-free. There’s no activation fee, no monthly fee, no annual fee and no minimum balance. And there’s never an overdraft fee, because you can’t spend more than what’s loaded on the card. Bluebird can be used wherever American Express is accepted.... more
2013 will be the year mobile wallets finally arrive
I’m at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, which means I’ll hopefully have some nifty things to share soon. In the meantime, this seems like a good opportunity to get into some predictions for the upcoming year.
Mobile wallets are a good place to start. Sure, the promise of ditching physical wallets and using only our smartphones to pay for stuff has been around for years, but in 2013 the stars will finally align and it will become reality. I recently sat down with a lawyer friend who specializes in this stuff and he explained that the infrastructure is just about in place and, more importantly, some players in the field are taking bold initiatives, which is going to force the issue.... more
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