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Matt White

McDonald's trials mobile phone coupons

McDonald’s Japan has just launched Kazasu Coupon, a programme that sends digital vouchers to your mobile phone which are redeemed in store by tapping your handset against a contactless POS reader. To ...

23 May 2008
Matt White

BoA invites online criticism

The Boston Globe reports that Bank of America is embracing customer interaction via an online forum. Predictably, plenty of irate customers are taking advantage of the feature to air their frustrati...

08 May 2008
Matt White

Bloggers beware

According to the BBC, a blogger who took aim at the police over what he considered mistreatment has been fined £150 with £364 costs for posting a "grossly offensive and menacing message". H...

30 Apr 2008
Matt White

Pre-paid cards a real cash rival?

Following on from Navjeet’s post on the enduring popularity of cash, a serious digital rival looks to be emerging, at least if you believe the forum's panel discussing innovations in payments technol...

25 Apr 2008
Matt White

E Trade sells off jets

You have to feel for poor old E*Trade. In a seemingly desperate cost-cutting exercise, the beleaguered discount brokerage has had to sell off its corporate jets. Apparently the private planes enabled...

03 Apr 2008
Matt White

PayPass open to hack attacks?

A couple of weeks ago Finextra reported that security expert Adam Laurie has developed a script that lets fraudsters pull the names, account numbers and expiration dates from RFID enabled American E...

12 Mar 2008

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