Perhaps most surprising among the data was the assumption of audio or visual feedback among all three groups. McDiarmid said that the use of contact-less credit cards is impersonal; often there is no confirmation of a transaction, such as you had when a clerk handed your card back at the end of the purchase. “Customers [...]

One immediate hurdle is the absence of enthusiasm among most regular people to try their hand at coding. Even if this is as simple as Flypaper claims-and nothing’s ever as simple as they say in a press briefing–there’s a lot of missionary work remaining. Flypaper will need to convince businesses its product is worth [...]

Yahoo’s price target was snipped to $21 a share from $24 on Monday by a Wall Street analyst, following the Internet search pioneer’s confirmation that it is delaying its controversial search-advertising deal with Google.

Yahoo’s stock on Friday closed at $16 a share, slightly up from $15.58 a share the day before.
Regulators might not allow the [...]

Yahoo, however, on Friday announced it would provide users with an opt-out capability from its customized advertising feature on Yahoo.com. That decision was in response to a congressional inquiry and a letter sent by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to 34 companies about privacy protections made available to users in targeted advertising and whether [...]