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...Number of people HSBC bank notified last week that their credit-card data may have been stolen after shopping with a MasterCard at Polo Ralph Lauren

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Apr. 25, 2005 | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...flood of credit-card offers into your mailbox is set to increase following a court decision last week that opened the door for American Express and Discover to pursue your business more aggressively. By opting not to hear the last-possible appeal of an antitrust ruling against MasterCard and Visa, the Supreme Court ended a six-year legal battle over how the two market leaders blocked rivals from partnering with card-issuing banks. American Express announced that it would roll out credit cards with MBNA, and Discover is pursuing new partners too. The change comes at a time when consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: BECAUSE ANOTHER CREDIT-CARD OFFER IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...Drastic Plastic Credit card users at IKEA's British stores will face a $1.25 surcharge. The retailer says passing on the fees it pays VISA and Mastercard helps keep prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 9/5/2004 | See Source »

...means having your blockmate/best friend steal your girlfriend of three years and then suddenly cancel a long planned ski vacation with you in order to spend more quality time with her, leaving you to venture off to Park City alone because the entire non-refundable trip was on your Mastercard and then forcing you to find an alternate way home from Logan because he “borrowed” your car from the airport parking lot using the spare set of keys you unwittingly left in your top dresser drawer and then alerting you to this fact with only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy | 3/4/2004 | See Source »

This is an understandable instinct. First, there are the manifold problems of having an ethernet connection in every dorm room to maximize the procrastinatory pleasures of having a world of shopping but a click away. And then there’s the thrill of the first MasterCard, opening up the world of deferred accountability that monthly bills allow (a world sadly populated by the all-too-adult specter of Debt). That there is actually very little that needs to be purchased during termtime, particularly given the required meal plan, is a fact conveniently overlooked by the serial spender...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, | Title: Hey, Big Spender | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

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