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The Inaugural CNP Expo ™ May 20-22

CardNotPresent.com is proud to present the 2012 CNP Expo. Based on feedback from our subscribers and sponsors this event will be a special and unique experience.

The 2012 CNP Expo is the first truly inclusive industry-wide event that combines education, buying and selling opportunities, and organized networking.

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CNP Expo Highlight: HobbyTown Enhances E-Commerce Strategy

HobbyTownUSAHow does a retailer that caters to a hyper-local set of niche enthusiasts, with a franchise structure that features local pricing and little centralized distribution, adapt its customer experience to the general, global nature of e-commerce? For HobbyTown USA®, a chain of more than 150 locally-owned stores in 44 states (and plans in the works for franchises in Australia), it required a solution that would bind the online experience as closely as possible with the in-store experience while taking advantage of the revenue-expanding opportunities presented by e-commerce, according to Tim Van Ert, the Nebraska-based company’s senior vice president.

HobbyTown USA® has been serving model builders, train collectors and radio-controlled car enthusiasts for more than 60 years and has operated under a franchise structure since 1985. After the company acknowledged the permanence of Internet commerce in the late 1990s, it struggled for a long time with how to represent inventory and pricing on its Website that differed among its independently-owned outlets and the distributor to which it had outsourced Website fulfillment.

Finally, in 2009, the company realized it needed to embrace the individual nature of its franchised locations and develop an e-commerce solution that reflected to Website visitors the exact inventory and pricing available in their local area.

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  • White Paper Helps Small Merchants Avoid Breaches - May 17, 2012
    ControlScan has published a free white paper for small businesses that details the most effective steps they can take to protect themselves from data thieves. The company says small merchants are complacent about the impact a data breach would have on their business yet are particularly vulnerable to attacks.
  • SafetyPay Launches Global Online Cash Payment Network - May 17, 2012
    SafetyPay, a Miami-based online payment provider, yesterday launched an alternative payment method that lets online shoppers pay with cash. The company says the cash payment solution will be available to consumers in the U.S., Brazil, Peru, the Caribbean, Russia and the CIS countries.
  • MasterCard Ranks Global Preparedness to Adopt Mobile Payments - May 14, 2012
    The Purchase, N.Y.-based card network has developed an algorithm that synthesizes six components—environment (economy and scale), infrastructure (telecommunications and technology), regulation, financial services, consumer readiness, and mobile commerce clusters (the degree of integration and partnering among banks, telcos, and the government)—into an index that enabled it to rank the markets in terms of which are most ready to adopt mobile payments right now.
  • FICO Charts European Fraud Shifts Since 2006 - May 14, 2012
    The U.K. went from nearly €650 million ($838 million) in fraudulent transactions in 2006 to around €420 million ($540 million) last year. Most of the fraud migrated to France and Germany, which both saw significant increases in payment card fraud in the past five years.
  • ControlScan Acquires CRE Secure - May 11, 2012
    ControlScan, an Atlanta-based provider of PCI compliance and information security services for merchants and their service providers, has acquired CRE Secure, another Atlanta company that specializes in secure cloud-based payment solutions for online merchants.
  • MasterCard to Launch Wallet for Online Payments - May 10, 2012
    The card network’s PayPass Wallet Services comprise components that enable online or contactless in-store purchases with a linked payment card and an API that allows partners to connect their own digital wallets into the PayPass Acceptance Network, leveraging MasterCard’s checkout, fraud-detection and authentication services.
  • VeriFone Sets SAIL for Mobile Acceptance - May 10, 2012
    VeriFone this week introduced SAIL, its mobile credit-card acceptance system that will compete with Square, PayPal Here and Intuit’s GoPayment. The company is offering smaller merchants the app and plug-in dongle that enables iOS and Android devices to accept card payments for free.
  • BOKU Signs Direct Billing Agreement with Deutsche Telekom - May 7, 2012
    Direct carrier billing technology provider BOKU,Inc. on Thursday signed a direct billing agreement with Deutsche Telekom, the largest mobile network operator in Germany. Under the agreement, Deutsche Telekom’s 34 million subscribers can purchase digital and virtual goods online and charge them to their existing wireless account.

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