Of the top 2,000 public companies in the world, 41 pharmaceutical companies are part of the list and the United States alone has 13 companies. The biggest drug companies of 2014 are led by Pfizer, followed by Novartis, with a combined total net profit of 97.8 billion. Global 2000 Rank

Abenomics refers to economic policies advocated by Shinzō Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan. It involves: – fiscal stimulus through government spending on mega projects – monetary easing through unconventional central bank policies – structural reforms by reducing corporate taxes, increasing company profits and finally higher wages. Is Abenomics Working?

Both Visa and MasterCard are giant companies that process transactions between your purchase merchant and your bank. They constantly release new security updates to avoid fraud cases. From 2003 to 2013, Visa successfully reduced their fraud ratio by 0.024%, while MasterCard successfully released 2.5 million bio-metric debit EMV cards to

Recently, hundreds of celebrity nude photos went online after an iCloud hack. Some questioned Apple’s responsibility, but after thorough investigation, Apple released a statement that the leaks were due to brute force attacks on targeted user names, and not any security issue in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud or

NFC is a technology that lets you use your phone as your wallet, and pay for things wirelessly at the checkout counter. It swaps data wirelessly across short distances. By simply placing your smart phone near a NFC reader, a transaction is made. How NFC Works Compare NFC to other

Credit card fraud is rife across the world, with criminals operating many different scams and techniques to get hold of your details. 2014 Stat: a. 250 million+ number of compromised credit-card for online sales b. 60% proportion of credit card fraud that involves card not present. 3. Rise in “Card

What is SSL? Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) are internet standard protocols used to protect sensitive information that end users send to web servers, such as passwords, credit card numbers, email content and private messaging. How does Certificate Authority (CA) work? CA is a

PCI stands for Payment Card Industry, PCI security standards serve mainly to ensure cardholder information is maintained in a secure environment. Therefore, any merchant that accepts credit card payments, or any business or individual who handles cardholder data, must comply with PCI standards. Compromised data can badly affect customers, retailers,

When a business owner decides to take the business online, a payment gateway is needed to process online transactions. There are a few options to set this up: 1. Self-hosted Pros – The merchant has full flexibility to customize the look and feel of the payment page. – Full control

This week we’d like to share an insightful article we found on user checkout behavior. To succeed, online merchants should take notice of the following issues: 1. Site speed. Customers don’t like to wait, so if the site does not load within seconds, they will abandon the site (and possibly