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• Verizon to activate 27 more LTE cities on Thursday

  Verizon Wireless will expand its faster 4G LTE network to 27 new cities on Thursday, bringing the total to 230 metro areas nationwide and within the reach of two-thirds of the U.S. population.

• Global Payments says fewer than 1.5M cards affected in data theft

  Payments processing services company, Global Payments said late Sunday that information on up to 1.5 million card numbers may have been "exported" as a result of an unauthorized access into its processing system.

• Possible massive data breach of Visa-MasterCard accounts under investigation

  A massive data breach of a payment-card processor's network could involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers, according to security news writer Brian Krebs in his online posting today.

• Governance at the speed of change

  In the time it takes you to read this sentence, millions of payment transactions will have occurred.

• SXSW panelists: Mobile payments poised to take off in US

  Mobile payments will become ubiquitous -- really, this time -- in the next few years, according to a panel discussion at the SXSW conference Saturday.

• Isis gets Chase, Capital One, BarclayCard for its mobile wallet

  BARCELONA -- Isis announced this week that Chase, Capital One and BarclayCard will enable their credit, debit and prepaid cards for the Isis Mobile Wallet that's expected to launch in mid-year.

• Intel, Visa partner on NFC payments

  Visa and Intel have announced a partnership that should make it easier for consumers to make mobile payments via phones and tablets powered by Intel chips.

• Visa certifies smartphones for NFC payments

  Visa has added smartphones from Samsung Electronics, Research In Motion and LG Electronics to the list of devices it has certified to work with the 185,000 NFC-based payWave payment terminals in Europe.

• Mobile payments to make slow progress in 2012

  Operator partnerships and small-scale mobile payment trials will start to bear fruit in 2012 and some analysts think Apple will make a play for our wallets. But mass-market acceptance will still allude the sector, according to analysts.

• Anonymous' Robin Hood credit card fraud campaign could hurt more than just banks

  Hacktivist groups Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN have joined together in a new campaign that involves compromising credit card details and using them to donate money to charities, homeless people and anti-government protesters around the world.

• Don't blame Anonymous for Facebook porn storm, says researcher

  The recent spam attack that planted pornographic images on Facebook was not the work of Anonymous, a security researcher said today.

• Visa introduces mobile payments for emerging markets

  Visa has introduced a payments product designed for emerging markets to serve the needs of "unbanked and under-banked consumers" who have mobile phones.

• Financial Woes Force WikiLeaks to Shut Down

  Whistleblower site WikiLeaks has temporarily suspended operations because of financial constraints.

• Wikileaks suspends operations, cites lack of funds

  Whistleblower Web site Wikileaks today announced that it has temporarily suspended operations due to financial constraints.

• Web 2.0 Summit to focus on value, pitfalls of online data

  This year's Web 2.0 Summit will focus on the critical role that online data plays in the Internet economy and on how its use and misuse can make the difference between success and failure in markets like online gaming, Web advertising, search, social media and mobile.