Category - News

If you log in to your Chase account online and don’t see much info there, don’t panic. You weren’t shut down or anything. Via flyertalk (here and here) we all seem to be having the same issue. The login works fine, but... Read More →

Operator was just officially launched. The company, inspiration of Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, wants to be our personal shoppers. For things that need a personal touch to purchase, an Operator rep familiar with that particular type of... Read More →

Yahoo Finance reports that Google Wallet is now keeping your Wallet balance in FDIC-insured bank accounts, insuring the money in the case of the company goes bankrupt. Typical bank accounts come with FDIC insurance on balances of up to... Read More →

We thought phone payments are the wave of the future. But how about paying with your NFC-enabled fitness device? Fitbit and Jawbone are two of the more popular health-tracking devices, keeping tabs on the wearer’s physical... Read More →

The grocery chain Safeway consists of Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, and Carrs. Like so many supermarket chains, Safeway has a gas rewards program which offers points for purchases made at the supermarket. Those points... Read More →

Target announced an extended return policy for all Target-brand products for up to a year. They also extended the one-year return policy for all items purchased through the Gift Registry. Press Release link Target Return Policy link... Read More →

Re/code are reporting about new project from Google titled ‘Pony Express’. Here is how the service will work, a Gmail user provides their personal information (name, address, partial and full social security number) and then... Read More →

Recode.com reports that Google is working on a system which will allow users to pay bills straight from Gmail. Slated to go live later this year, the service would allow Gmail users to pay bills such as insurance, utilities and more... Read More →

GameStop & CardPool have a deal that is similar to the previous Walmart & CardPool deal (which is now dead), where consumers can exchange their 3rd party gift cards for GameStop giftcards online. They’ve now announced that... Read More →

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service have announced that cards that use a magnetic stripe rather than EMV chip will no longer work for cash withdrawals at ATMs. You’ll still be able to use your magnetic stripe cards... Read More →

Costco announced today that they struck a new partnership with Visa and Citi. Costco will accept only Visa-branded cards starting April 1, 2016, and Citi will offer a Citi/Costco partner credit card, similar to the AmEx/Costco product... Read More →

Samsung announced today their own NFC payment system which will come pre-installed in phones called ‘Samsung Pay’. We reported on Samsung’s acquisition of LoopPay, a system that mimics the swiping of a credit card in... Read More →

Bloomberg reports that American Express will be raising interest rates for some of its users for the first time in 5 years. [This will only affect those who carry a balance on their AmEx card, something we don’t usually recommend... Read More →

JPMorgan Chase plans to close 300 branches, around 5% of all its branches, in a nod to the increasing  usage of the internet for processing ordinary banking transactions. The move was announced today at an investor’s conference... Read More →