What are you supposed to do when you pull out plastic to buy something at a store these days? You've probably noticed that plenty of stores have terminals that ...

EMV-chipped cards are more secure than magstripe cards, and businesses can limit liability by accepting them. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will not support U.S. contactless payments anytime soon. The nation's largest retailer plans eventually to begin accepting EMV chip-and-PIN cards in the U.S., but supporting ...

There's no doubt that money can be made by owning shares of unprofitable businesses. For example, biotech and mining exploration companies often lose money for years before finding success with a new ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She worked for almost two decades as ...

Even when a business is losing money, it's possible for shareholders to make money if they buy a good business at the right price. For example, although Amazon.com made losses for many years after ...

Nebo Djurdjevic figures recent developments affecting the cost of doing business in the U.S. payments industry have opened a door for his software company. That door could be fairly wide open, ...