Web inventor: Closing digital divide must be top priority

TANZANIA World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee said Thursday the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the gross inequality of a world where almost half the population is una...

Contactless payments jump 40% as shoppers fear germs on cash and credit cards, Mastercard says

Shoppers are increasingly paying in ways that don't involve touching cash, or handing over a credit card, because of fears of the coronavirus, according to Mastercard. Th...

Visa CEO: Unlike PayPal and Square, we won't block gun purchases

Visa will continue to facilitate gun purchases as long as it is legal for people to buy firearms, the chief executive of the credit card giant told CNBC on Wednesday. Pay...