Blog entries tagged 'Electronic Commerce'

Can IT help The City of Houston Become Green?

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I was reading an InfoWorld Blog on SOA (searchoriented architecture), and the effects technology is playing in the reduction of "global warming" and "carbon footprints". You may recall that in some of my earlier blogs, I mentioned how Texas based companies like Downstream Environmental have become a de facto standard of impassioned innovation in Biofuel services, that promotes a "Green" business structure.

In May, 2007, the City of Houston pas [...]

Pelosi hates America

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Politics aside, the title of this blog was an attention getter...

Isn't it interesting how innovative the opportunistic mind works ...on February 27th, both Democrats & Republicans under Pelosi leadership passed H.R. 5351, a bill that will raise the prices that you and I pay at the pump for gasoline through the imposition of $17 - $18 billion dollars in taxes.

Before I discuss the technical aspects of this blog post, let me give you a bit of hist [...]

Payday Lending Predatory Tactics

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I've just read two very damning articles sent to me by a reader of this blog about Payday Lenders. The 1st article from the Dallas Morning News, involving the local government of Mesquite, Texas's decision to minimize the number of Payday lenders within 1,000 feet of a similar business, and each must be in a freestanding building at least 200 feet from residential areas and 500 feet from freeways, a month after Richardson, Texas imposed similar restrictions due to some of the l [...]

Circle K - Bill Payment Boon in El Paso with TIO and El Paso Electric

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With the innovation of eCommerce in various local municipalities as a service to the unbanked or under banked, auto-payment services through merchants with their customers that have bank accounts, billing beinf either pre-paid, or billed to your cell phone each month, as well as banks trying to regain eCommerce market share with an under banked communities of interest, why are kiosk application not more readily available to the unbanked?

This April, 2008, El Paso Electric c [...]

Euronet ends MoneyGram pursuit

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E-payments processor and ATM operator Euronet Worldwide says it will not launch a new bid to acquire fund transfer outfit Moneygram due to the slowdown in the debt and equity markets.

Euronet made an unsolicited $1.65 billion bid to acquire MoneyGram in December 2007. The stock offer valued MoneyGram at $20 per share - some 40% higher than the stock's price at the time - but was rebuffed by MoneyGram.

Earlier this month MoneyGram agreed [...]

What about H.R. 3678???

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In my blog "3 Ways to Address Customer Service issues during the Christmas Rush" I reference Governor Spitzer 8% state wide and 8,375% in the City tax on internet purchases for large retailer sales, like Amazon.

Interesting enough, in all of the comments I received, no one pointed out the October 31, amendment to "Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendment Acts of 2007", which appears to be grounds for a challenge by some enterprising group of Tax Attorney's [...]

Incentives To Increase Electronic Bill Payment

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In an effort to increase the number of consumers who receive and pay their bill electronically, Qwest Communications offered to donate 1% of the consumer's bill to their school district if the consumer switched to electronic bill presentment and payment. Qwest offered this incentive to its consumers in an effort to cut down on the high cost of paper billing and payment. While Qwest did not specify exactly how much money they save for every person that switc [...]

Gift Cards � a Grandparents Dream or a Recipients Nightmare

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One study pegs the growth of Gift Card Promotions at 20% a month; this study did include Stored Value Cards, and rechargeable gift cards.

Incentive Gift Cards have community awareness, as indicated by an online research survey conducted by a First Data Consumer Incentives Study with 526 surveyrespondents.

"Two-thirds, 67 percent, of survey respondents state they were already extremely or very familiar with Gift Cards. During past purchase de [...]

CFSI�s Innovators Roundtable study of the underbanked market

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The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) announced a new study with a number of financial institutions, which have identified the underbanked or the unbanked as a boon into capturing a greater market share for their financial service offerings.

CHICAGO (BusinessWire)--The Center for Financial Services Innovation announced today the initiation of the first comprehensive, authoritative national segmentation study of the underbanked market. Citi, eFunds (now [...]