Visa starts promotion of EMV chip technology

Payment system Visa announced the dates of the program to promote the use of chip technology standard EMV. The program provides for the modernization of the acquiring bank ATMs in the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S. to provide the service smart card payment standard EMV (Europay MasterCard Visa).

The key provision of the program is the implementation of the principle of the transfer of responsibility for unauthorized transactions on that party, whether acquiring bank or the issuing bank, which did not provide chipset technologies. Thus, in the case of the chip (EMV) card in the ATM was not equipped with the appropriate technology, the responsibility for losses due to unauthorized transactions, is acquiring bank. To date, this responsibility of bank-card issuers.

Visa Company has established the following dates for the implementation of the principle of the transfer of responsibility for transactions effected at ATMs using Visa cards and / or Plus:

- On October 1, 2015 shall come into force on the transfer of responsibility for transactions in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding China, India, Japan and Thailand;
- On April 1, 2015 processing companies involved in the processing of ATM transactions on Visa cards in the United States must support EMV-chip technology;
- On October 1, 2017 shall come into force on the transfer of responsibility for transactions in China, India, Japan, Thailand and the United States.

PayPal has launched in Europe payments platform Here

PayPal payment operator in Europe presented a new solution for making payments among small businesses. The so called Chip & Pin is a type of card reader.

The company said that the new payment system is designed for the European and UK small businesses, which previously relied on for payments or cash, or a check, avoiding the banking and credit card because of the need to work with the banking systems and the high cost of acquiring the latter.

In PayPal said that the new device will cost PayPal Here small business about a hundred euros. It is designed for small shops, taxis, mobile commerce newspapers, drinks and snacks, etc etc.

Recall that for the first time to develop a PayPal Here operator reported almost a year ago. Until now, it was limited to work in the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong and Australia. Now earned in Europe.

ESET NOD32 Business Edition

ESET NOD32 Business Edition solution for proactive protection Your Business and client workstations from all types of malware.

Blocks the denied applications and eliminates the possibility of leakage of confidential information.

Allows for rapid scanning and recognition of all types of threats through a combination of intelligent "cloud" technologies and patented method of heuristic analysis.

This approach allows you to instantly respond to any attempts of malicious programs into the corporate network of the company.

Enhanced scanning system that provides effective protection of personal data in the corporate network.

Low system requirements and smart scanning algorithms provide high performance.

The London Stock Exchange creates a Nasdaq-like platform

The London Stock Exchange is planning to create its own platform for fast growing and technology companies that will compete with the U.S. Nasdaq, but will also be focused on European technology companies.

As described in the London Stock Exchange, New Market High-Growth Segment (HGS) is a spin off from the main market, which will have its own rules of trade, adjusted for companies that are just entering the market and the shares that may be significant variations. In addition, HGS will allow companies entering the IPO, as well as their creators to place on the market only 10% of the company, retaining 90% of the market for themselves.

The idea of this placement is to allow investors to more actively work with fast growing companies and companies of high-tech sector of the economy. Earlier in Europe in general and Britain in particular complained that European IT is increasingly lagging behind the U.S. and in order to close this gap requires some external support measures.

Cooperation with Microsoft is not justified

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaking at the Goldman Sachs technology conference on the eve recognized that cooperation with Microsoft in Internet search, when Yahoo began using the search engine Bing, is not justified either commercially or from a strategic point of view.

According to her, the integration of Microsoft technology was quite expensive for Yahoo and until the money had not been worked out, besides switching to Bing has not had a positive impact on the market share of Yahoo.

Meyer says that the company is earning now have to rely on their own online services, which are not related to Bing. The current CEO Yahoo says that for her the situation is not a surprise, Meyer admitted that while working in Google she watched the agreement Microsoft and Yahoo, and even then for myself, she knew that Yahoo would be at best a zero result, and in the worst - bear market losses.

Rackspace Hosting reduces the rate of financial growth

Hosting company Rackspace Hosting today reported 25% rise in quarterly earnings, which is below the expectations of investors.

Analysts say that the company announced today results suggest slower growth of one of the world's largest hosting providers.

At the end of trading on Tuesday Rackspace paper dropped in price by more than 10% to 67.80 dollars. In just the last six months, the company increased the value of its shares by 38%.

According to the report of the company, in the fourth quarter, sales Rackspace increased 5% from the level of the third quarter. Investors say that for the fifth consecutive quarter, Rackspace shows slowdown in sales growth of hosting.

Investors say some slowdown can be attributed to an increase in data center power equipment and significant consolidation, which allows a single physical server, to lease, to place more data, websites, and other information. At the same time, growth has and general economic trends. In most Rackspace said that during the quarter the company enough to actively promote its cloud hosting, which allowed a lower cost for customers to place data on the Internet.

Online shopping will receive up to 50% of customers from social networks

According to the forecast analyst firm Gartner, by 2015, half of new customers online stores will come to shop from social networks. In turn, online shopping will identify a significant proportion of users of social networks.

Currently, only about 5% of the customers of online stores from social networks are identified last, since the store is set up in a number of software solutions to identify the users of social networks. In Gartner predicts that in the next few years this number will increase significantly, and social networks will be enough to actively use their own audience for marketing purposes.

Gartner advises online shopping now focus on creating systems of cross-authorization of users to social networks to maximize it easier for users to create and place an order to purchase a product. For users with a single authentication system is also quite convenient, as they do not have to register for different resources and use only one username / password for authentication.

LinkedIn in 2013 will focus on the content in a social network

Among LinkedIn said that a significant part of 2012 they were busy modifying their network to workers and employers from around the world are able to comfortably find each other and engage in the development of your own career or business strategy. However, in 2013, LinkedIn is going to change strategy and as its main resource areas chosen the direction of content.

As described in LinkedIn, in 2013, the company is the task of turning LinkedIn is not only a platform for search professionals and an information hub where these professionals will be able to find the data they need for work. In addition, LinkedIn plans to open in 2013, producing its own content and launch a number of marketing programs related to marketing.

General Director of LinkedIn Jeff Weiner said that in the future LinkedIn can share their own income from work about equally between revenue from content and services directly from the HR activities. It is expected that the first content-area for social networks will become a resource LinkedIn Today, as well as development programs LinkedIn Influencers, in which the identification of the most popular and influential participants LinkedIn.

Quarterly data LinkedIn exceeded expectations

Professional social network LinkedIn yesterday showed the quarterly results was higher than market expectations amid growing customer base and increase sales.

In the fourth quarter of 2012, revenues increased by 81% to 303.6 million dollars, exceeding market expectations at 279.7 million dollars. Operating profit was 35 cents a share, well above the forecast of 19 cents a share.

In the fourth quarter of LinkedIn user base grew by 8% to 202 million. The company said that LinkedIn continues to position itself as a resource for HR professionals as well as those looking for work. The company's revenue from paid services network that are directly related to the search and selection of new staff, was 161 million, up 90% from a year earlier. Now the company's revenue from advertising and from paid services is divided equally.

In the wake of publication of positive quarterly data, the paper company in New York rose in price by 12% to 124.09 dollars. Since its IPO in May of 2011 paper LinkedIn surged nearly tripled. For comparison, the paper has been placed Facebook fell 25%, Groupon and Zynga - more than 70%.