In fact, most households have more than one credit card, and the average household has about four active cards, according to 2000 U.S. Census data.

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During his 2012 WWDC keynote presentation, Tim Cook announced Apple has more than 400 million active credit cards on file.

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Each turn two event cards will be active, with one swapping out every turn.

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Spokeswoman Elvira Swanson notes that the company has more than 1.8 billion cards in circulation and is active in more than 200 countries around the world.

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As part of the deal, PayPal will issue payment cards to its more than 50 million active users in the United States over the next year.

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As part of the Discover deal, PayPal will issue payment cards to its more than 50 million active users in the United States over the next year.

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Meantime, the NFL replaced Bank of America by signing up Barclaycard US as an issuer of its co-branded credit cards (Bank of America is still active with some individual NFL teams, and remains the offical bank of Major League Baseball).

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For Citi, the deal brings 25m active accounts, many of which are Sears' own private-label store cards.

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The bank has about 1.5 million active accounts and offers a range of banking products to retail customers only, including credit cards, savings, personal loans, general insurance and travel money.

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They then placed all of these cards on the wall and realized that, between the ten of them, they had over 150 active projects, many of which were drawing upon the same resources or impacting the same groups.

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