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RETAIL FOCUS February 15 · 2008 - 26 Retail Focus in Brief Blackstone announced the renewal and expansion of their prepaid category supplier agreement with Navarro Discount Pharmacies. The expanded agreement enables Navarro to sell a wide variety of gift cards, prepaid handsets, bill payments and prepaid MasterCard cards in all Navarro Discount Pharmacies locations- in addition to the traditional phone cards and wireless recharge products already sold in Navarro stores. Source: Blackstone - www.blackstoneonline.com of Internet users have made at least one purchase online in the past month, according to Nielsen. Online shoppers tend to stick to the shopping sites they are familiar with, with 60 percent saying they buy mostly from the same site. Nielsen – www.nielsen.com merchant and cardholder profiling, data mining, and management information reporting. The system is designed to help detect fraud before the cardholder even realizes it has happened, minimizing the loss per fraud case. 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The Prepaid Press is published 12x annually. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted, in any form, by any means, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without permission from the publisher. Domestic subscriptions are free; $65 foreign. Rather than insert aTM or ® in each occurrence, please be advised we are using names for editorial purposes only. The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) announced that Jennifer Nichols has joined the association as its advertising manager. Nichols will be responsible for supporting advertising sales for the association’s award-winning monthly NACS Magazine, as well as other NACS products. Prior to joining NACS, Nichols served as publications manager for the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) where she managed the association’s advertising for its multiple in-house publications. She joined SAME in 1999 as the association’s marketing manager. NACS - www.nacsonline.com Speedway SuperAmerica LLC has selected RBS Lynk, the U.S. payment-processing arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, to provide credit card processing to the approximately 1,600 gasoline and convenience stores. Under terms of the agreement, RBS Lynk will initially provide in-store and pay-at-the-pump credit card processing for Speedway, a subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corp. This will be followed by implementation of debit card processing. Speedway SuperAmerica – www.speedwaysuperamerica.com RBS Lynk – www.rbslynk.com Prepaid Wireless Business Opportunity Houston Texas based Master Distributor for prepaid and postpaid Wireless Services is looking for subdistributors and retailers in the following states: Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Michigan, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, New York, New Jersey. Please call Optima Telecom at 866-414-4940. More than 85 percent of the world’s online population has used the Internet to make a purchase -- increasing the market for online shopping by 40 percent in the past two years -- according to the latest Nielsen Global Online Survey on Internet shopping habits. Globally, more than half Altair Financial Services International (Altair), a payments processor and prepaid card solutions provider, has introduced the complete MasterCard Expert Monitoring System (“EMS”) product suite, using Brighterion’s iPrevent fraud prevention engine, to enhance security and reduce risk of fraud for both card issuers and their cardholders. EMS is a browser-based, rules and artificial intelligencebased technologies platform that will provide Altair with complete control of fraud detection, for all full conference attendees We are con dent your event experience will be worthwhile. Not satis ed with the conference program? Receive a full refund! 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The Prepaid Press - February 2008 Beachfront Property for Sale Cardholder Facing Systems Contents The Retske Report: Getting the Word Out 5 Minutes With Mark Flanagan, CEO of PrepaidWireless.com Regulatory Rundown: Mid-Winter Update 2008 Prepaid Wireless Handsets Consumer’s Union Raps Wireless Industry Prepaid Reviews Launches Canadian Website Maginpins and TúYo Mobile Form Alliance Prepaid Wireless in Brief Boost Mobile Introduces New $1/Day Chat Plan Mobile Voice to Overtake Fixed in Europe Prepaid Wireless Roundup Another Kind of Prepaid Calling Spot Rates VSNL Wins ATLANTIC-ACM Award The Legal Line Calling Cards in Brief Sapotek Partners with DigiLinea Pactolus Goes Live at Cable MSO Low-Income Market Initiatives to Drive Mobile Banking Payments in Brief Monitise Americas Expands Payments Network Charge Anywhere Mobile POS Wins Award Hypercom Introduces System for Small Merchants TIO Networks Announces TIO Prepaid MasterCard NPBCA Makes Leadership Change A Walk Down the Aisle Branding Your Retail Store Retailers Welcome Senate Approval of Stimulus Bill NRF Forecasts 3.5 Percent Growth in Retail Sales Cyphermint Teams With DHL Retail Focus in Brief Our Advertisers Contact Us

The Prepaid Press - February 15, 2008

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