Advocacy Groups Call for Facebook’s Break Up Nine advocacy groups have called the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the break up of Facebook in light of its consumer data breaches, especially with Cambridge Analytica. The recommendation includes spinning off Instagram and WhatsApp. The letter urged the FTC to regulate Facebook like a utility given its size, position and influence in...

Honda is the latest carmaker to launch an in-car platform at CES. This year Honda offered demos of Honda Dream Drive in the all-new 2019 Honda Passport at  CES from January 8-11, 2019. This latest iteration of Honda Dream Drive includes expanded in-vehicle payment collaboration with MasterCard and PayPal. CardLinx previously reported on MasterCard’s partnership with GM and their in-car payment...

The automotive industry is the latest to jump into the Internet of Commerce Things (IoCT) ecosystem. Both Volkswagen and Daimler AG recently announced acquisitions of payments companies with the intention to enable payments from cars: Volkswagen acquired Canadian company PayByPhone, which manages $300 million in payments per year for parking facilities in Paris, Boston, London, San Francisco and Seattle. Volkswagen...

MasterCard’s MasterPass is included in OnStar GO, a new car-based operating system for General Motors that is being developed by IBM Watson. According to the report, over 2 million 2017 model year GM vehicles will be equipped with OnStar GO to let consumers pay for gas and preorder and pay for coffee from their dashboard. The system will use a network of 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspots to...