| Chase Paymentech Debuts Website for Small and Medium Businesses
DALLAS, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Chase Paymentech Solutions, LLC, has launched a new website designed to help small and medium sized businesses affordably accept credit card payments. The new site, http://merchantaccount.chasepaymentech.com, provides business owners with a simple, easy to use guide to access the latest Chase Paymentech payment processing tools. The site allows businesses to research payment products that fit their needs and offers quick access to experts who can customize a program to each business' requirements. These programs feature reliable terminals, low interchange rates to process credit card transactions and even custom gift card programs. Solutions can be designed for merchants who need secure payment solutions over the Internet, point-of- sale, telephone, or mail order.
Credit card industry tries to hook young people
All major banking institutions pay big money to colleges and universities for on-campus recruiting rights, offering students low initial interest rates and/or other sweetheart deals if they accept a credit card. The rest of us get solicitations through our phone or the mails.Seductive sales campaigns focus on high school graduates and for all kinds of items that TV, movies or society has told them they want, need, should have because they deserve it and others have, so why don't they? Car dealers offer "one-time sales events" to first-time wage earners, high-end electronic stores give 90-day-same-as-cash deals and guarantee that no one will be turned down, furniture showrooms offer newlyweds "no payments 'til next year," cell phones, Internet providers, cable companies, satellite dish outfits all make it sound as if you can't have a decent life without their help.All this has given birth to an additional parasite - the debt-consolidation, paycheck-cashing, payday-loan, instant-refinancing-of-your-car (and you get to keep your car - 'til they come to take it away) industry.Public schools teach kids how to drive, play sports, fit a condom, take birth control pills, find an abortionist or fill out a job application at McDonald's.
Ampco to Deploy Unified Threat Management Technology
CHICAGO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Ampco System Parking, a wholly owned subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE: ABM) will begin to deploy Trustwave's Unified Threat Management (UTM) information security appliance at Ampco parking locations throughout the United States. Trustwave is a leading provider of information security and compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations throughout the world. The deployment is part of Ampco's initiative to protect the security of consumer credit card information that is processed and/or transmitted from its managed locations. The Trustwave UTM appliances will help ensure Ampco's on-going compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which is a requirement for all credit card accepting merchants as mandated by Visa Inc., MasterCard Worldwide, American Express and Discover.
AIADA Establishes Partnership with Moneris Solutions for Dealership ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The American International Automobile Dealers Association today announced a new affinity partnership with Moneris Solutions, designed to provide dealer members with exclusive pricing on merchant card processing, check guarantee and conversion, gift cards and ACH/EFT processing. Moneris Solutions is one of North America's largest payments processors with a roster of clients that include numerous Acura, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and other leading car dealerships. "As more and more customers seek to pay by credit and debit card, and check services become a critical component to closing deals, the ability to accept any type of payment has become a fundamental element in maintaining dealership customer satisfaction," said AIADA President Cody Lusk.
Times Writers Group: Bachmann's mailer cost us
Mine sure has. In December every day brought catalogs (free shipping for last-minute shoppers!), credit card applications (gift now, pay later), cards and letters, and the usual bills. One thing I received that I wasn't expecting was a mailing from my congressional representative, 6th District Rep. Michele Bachmann. I'm sure if you live in her district you received one also. It was a full-color, glossy cardstock, trifold brochure on Internet safety and, of course, featured a picture of her carefully coifed visage. For the life of me I can't figure out why Bachmann felt it necessary to spend money on photography, production, printing and postage to send out information that is not needed by constituents who don't use the Internet and is easily found elsewhere by those who do.
Syracuse Professor Milton Mueller Named First XS4ALL Professor
But our dependence on the Internet also brings up issues of security, privacy, and trust in technology. The subject very much deserves more academic research, and we're happy that the internationally renowned professor Mueller will be doing the job."
The Professorship, which begins January 1, 2008, is part time; Mueller will continue to spend 60 percent of his time at the iSchool at Syracuse. At the close of the fall semester, Mueller stepped down as program chair of the M.S. in telecommunications and network management at the iSchool, and is working with Professor Martha Garcia-Murillo, who takes over the position in January, to ensure a smooth transition.
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David Cameron shops at the Co-op in search of a Tory dividend
A political scrap has broken out over the counter of the Co-op. Best known as a high street shop providing reliable, cheap food and distinctive "divi" stamps — eventually replaced by a plastic dividend card — the co-operative movement was for many a chance to save by pooling resources in trade, credit and housing. For still others it was a life-changing opportunity: the young Fred Perry, whose father was a senior official in the Co-operative Party, learnt to play tennis on an Edwardian co-operative housing estate and went on to win Wimbledon three times. The Co-op is also a powerful and long-standing political idea — which Gordon Brown and David Cameron are competing to claim as their own. The Co-op movement has long been associated with the Left: the Co-operative Party and the Labour Party have been in formal alliance since 1927.
Moyer to lawyers: Fight foreclosure for free
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, a Sandusky native, knows home foreclosures are a big problem back home in Erie County and across Ohio. Moyer is asking the courts and Ohio attorneys to reach out and help as many homeowners as they can. The chief justice has asked judges who handle foreclosure cases to use mediation to resolve as many cases as possible. And he's asked Ohio lawyers to volunteer in foreclosure cases to help families who can't otherwise afford a lawyer. A record number of foreclosure cases in 2007 have helped contribute to the growing workload in the Erie County courts, said the clerk of courts, Barbara Johnson. .
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