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Banking

Visa, Mastercard Agree to Massive Settlement That Limits Swipe Fees

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The agreement with US-based merchants is expected to reduce the credit card titans’ take by a combined $30 billion through 2030.

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Banking

Capital One Plans Purchase of Discover to Build Credit Card Colossus

The mega bank intends to buy the fourth-leading credit card network in the US.

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Finance

Berkshire Hathaway Has Built a Massive Mountain of Cash

Berkshire Hathaway’s third-quarter earnings report on Saturday revealed how Warren Buffett weathered the past three months.

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Patent Drop

Visa’s AI spending temptress

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Banking

Major US Banks Develop Digital Wallet to Compete with PayPal and Apple Pay

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Finance

Big Banks May Use Payment Service Zelle to Take on Mastercard and Visa

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Finance

Americans Paid Down Their Credit Cards, Lenders Are Starting to Freak

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Big Tech

Meta Looks Back to the Metaverse with Rose-Tinted Ray-Bans

By expanding its partnership with Ray-Ban, Meta is turning its attention back to building futuristic hardware.

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CIO Upside

How CIOs Can Prepare for the Not-So-Distant Quantum Security Threat

‘What’s more concerning is that people are just waiting and doing nothing’

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Artificial Intelligence

The Less You Know, the Better: Tech Moves Toward Data Minimization

‘At the end of the day, wherever that data is, it has to be protected’

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