After its sudden disappearance from online the website of an ecurrency service GlobalDigitalPay is now live again. It loads with no problems and users can log into their accounts. Interestingly, the comeback of the payment processor was not smooth and stable, as the website worked with some problems which were ascribed by the company to another DDoS attack.
It should also be noted that the website returned to its usual operation with several delays. The officials of GlobalDigitalPay promised on April 27: “We are pleased to announce that we are planning to go live on Wed night (28th April) / Thurs morning (29th April) GMT.” On that day the company rescheduled its return: “It looks as though we are going to overrun our latest deadline. Once again, we apologise for the continued delay…
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According to the website of Google’s investment arm Google Ventures, the company has invested an undisclosed amount of money into a startup company that claims to have abilities to predict the future. The company known as Recorded Future, Cambridge, Massachusetts, “offers customers new ways to analyze the past, present and the predicted future,” according to a new Google Ventures Web site that went live on Monday.
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Customers now can convert their unused gift card money into virtual currency units at thousands of top online games. Plastic Jungle and Offerpal Media have partnered to allow exchange gift cards for purchasing power within online games, virtual worlds and social networks, tapping the estimated $30 billion unredeemed gift card economy.Read more
WAUSAU Financial Systems has entered into a cashiering partnership with CORE Business Technologiesto enable its ReceivableWorks™ solution to accept additional forms of payment. ReceivableWorks™, built on WAUSAU’s market-leading retail and wholesale remittance platform, allows companies to aggregate, automate and accelerate receivables across all channels. Under its partnership with CORE which offers a cashiering solution that takes cash, check and debit or credit card payments through its iPayment Revenue Portal, WAUSAU can accept walk-up/walk-in cashiering payments.Read more
American Express launched a new product that helps parents prevent their offsprings from overspending on the plastic cards. The company announced the launch of PASS card that parents can give their teens and young adults as a safer alternative to cash, credit and debit cards. PASS will be sold and marketed exclusively to adults, and is currently available as a preview to American Express Cardmembers and will be available to the general public this summer.Read more
MasterCard Worldwide has introduced a number of enhancements to its Worldwide Network which are meant to allow partnering financial institutions and merchants to improve the shopping experience for cardholders; identify new business opportunities; and improve operational efficiencies.Read more
According to a new report by the Ponemon Institute titled “Economic Impact of Privacy on Online Behavioral Advertising,” the increasing number of advertisers are declining the use of online behavioral advertising (OBA) model which is caused mostly by the concerns over consumers’ privacy. While 70% o the companies in the report agree that behaviorally targeted advertising has significantly increased marketing and sales performance, still most of them have limited their online ad budgets over privacy concerns.Read more
As the day of the North American debut of “Iron Man 2″ nears the internet is being flooded with numerous pirated copies of the film. Especially, it was seen last weekend.
In the overseas debut the film with starring actor Robert Downey Jr. generated $100 million in ticket sales. It is much likely that among those moviegoers there were individuals with hidden cameras.
On Sunday evening the Pirate Bay was abundant with pirated copies of the Paramount Pictures’ film available for download. Comments by users said that the copies were recorded by people sitting in the theater who videotaped the movie off the screen using handheld cameras. Most of them were unsurprisingly with low viewing quality, but at least one copy of the movie at The Pirate Bay received kudos for being a “decent copy.”
“This sort of theft is intensely disrespectful and damaging to those who pour their creativity and capital into movies and television,” said a spokesman for Viacom, parent company of Paramount Pictures…Read More
