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Today Cisco has published results of a survey that the company conducted to see customers’ attitude towards different shopping and payment trends - both online and offline. Cisco surveyed more than 1,500 people to see their opinions on various factors in the changing commerce landscape and the results are definitely worth noting - both for real-life financial institutions like banks and for e-commerce companies.
The main result of the survey is that people in all age groups tend to increasingly trust [...]

Today there’s a very interesting story on The New Your Times blog that grabbed my attention because of its title - “Rumor Control: Why I Can’t Put “Tibet” in My Hotmail Address”. In the article David Gallagher references a reader who attempted to register an email address containing the word “Tibet” in it (it has something to do with his book about Tibet) on Hotmail but failed because the ID chosen contained “a word or phrase that is not allowed”.
The [...]

You may be wondering what Zopa is. Well, it is the acronym for Zone of Possible Agreement and is the marketplace where people meet to lend and borrow money. It is a beneficial system for both parties where lenders get great returns while borrowers get low-cost loans. And with no banks in the middle everyone gets better rates. This system ensures that everything is safe, secure and legal.
Zopa was started in the UK by a group of experienced finance heads [...]