Indian Credit Card Market Predicted To Reach 28 Million Cards By 2014
Financial institutions in India by 2014 will issue a combined 28 million credit cards, which would represent a 13% increase from the 24.7 million cards they issued as of March 30 this year, according to a new research report released Dec. 13. Read full article at PaymentsSource (paid subscription required). … Read entire article »
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Russian McDonald’s Restaurants Complete Card-Terminal Deployments
The 258 McDonald’s restaurants in Russia now accept bankcards, the fast-food provider’s acquirer Russian Standard Bank announced Dec. 13. Read full article at PaymentsSource (paid subscription required). … Read entire article »
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Top OpenSim grids doubled in size in 2010
OpenSim grids hit yet another new peak this month, with 15,094 regions on the top 40 grids, an 11 percent [...] … Read entire article »
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MasterCard, Russian Standard Bank Strike MoneySend Deal
Russian Standard Bank has become the first European bank to offer person-to-person funds transfers through MasterCard Worldwide’s MoneySend platform, the companies announced Dec. 6. Read full article at PaymentsSource (paid subscription required). … Read entire article »
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SpotOn3D stress-tests OpenSim in the cloud
SpotOn3D will hold a benchmark test on Wednesday, December 15 to determine the difference in performance of OpenSim version 0.7.1 [...] … Read entire article »
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IBM’s principles of virtual design
Here at Hypergrid Business we spend a lot of time touring virtual environments, and we often find them difficult to [...] … Read entire article »
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The Great Risk Race
As Asia’s dynamic markets demand risk management attention and expertise, financial firms rush to fill a talent gap, with particular urgency in China. Three years ago, when Yang Haitao, an experienced financial risk manager, moved to Shanghai to join Nanyang Commercial Bank (China), he knew it was going to be more than a routine job change. As senior risk manager for the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Nanyang, Yang was to take … Read entire article »
Canvas: New Web viewer a breakthrough
San Francisco-based Tipodean Technologies will open its Canvas Web-based viewer next week to a select group of beta testers, but [...] … Read entire article »
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ReactionGrid adds groups, plans upgrade
ReactionGrid released a groups module for OpenSim this week and announced plans to upgrade to the next version of OpenSim [...] … Read entire article »
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Katalabs releases HTML 5 virtual worlds browser
California-based Katalabs has just released a free iPad and iPhone-friendly Web-based virtual world viewer, KataSpace, which works in conjunction with [...] … Read entire article »
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