American Express, Costco Partnership to End Next Year
American Express announced today that its partnership with Costco will end next year on March 31, 2016. This comes on…
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Google Reportedly Looking to Acquire Softcard
In an interesting development, Google is reportedly making offers to buy Softcard, formerly ISIS. Softcard and Google are competitors at…
IHG Purchases Kimpton Hotels For $430 Million In Cash
IHG has announced that they have purchased Kimpton Hotels for $430 million in cash. Kimpton was established in 1981 and…
President Obama’s New “BuySecure” Executive Order Summary
On October 17th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order called the BuySecure initiative. The aim of BuySecure is to…
Facebook To Possibly Allow Friend To Friend Payments
I was doing some light reading on TechCrunch over the weekend and found this interesting article "Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend…
Plink Closes Down Effective Immediately
For those not familiar with Plink, basically it was an app based loyalty program that allowed you to earn Plink…
New restrictions on Evolve Money Payments
Not all change is good, and it seems that Evolve Money is moving further and further away from being the…
UPS Data Breach Affects Over 100,000
In recent news, 51 UPS Stores across 24 states were affected by a data breach between January 2014 and August…
“Shift Debit Card” Will Aim To Allow You To Spend Cryptocurrency + Loyalty Points As Fiat
Shift is a debit card that allows users to pay in fiat currency (e.g United States Dollars or USD) using…
Chinese Man Earns 422 Million American Express Points
According to Bloomberg a Chinese man recently earned a total of 422 million American Express points after he purchased a HK$281…