Still, X-Charge kept forwarding him emails between MasterCard and a payment processor called Global Payments Inc.

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This spring, as reported here, a big credit card processor, Global Payments (NYSE: GPN), said about 1.5 million credit card numbers may have been stolen from its network.

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Stunning outside appearances aside, HTC's newest features an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor for the Global edition and a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core for the LTE iteration.

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Though ExactTarget is likely to be the headliner this week, there are two other deals that also could draw interest: payment processor Vantiv Inc. and electronic exchange BATS Global Markets.

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Durang flings all kinds of references into his word processor: Angelina Jolie, Snow White, Maggie Smith, global warming, Norma Desmond, William Penn, "Peter Pan, " the HBO show "Entourage, " Lindsay Lohan, ancient Greek drama, voodoo and, as the title suggests, a big dollop of Anton Chekhov.

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The payment processor will benefit from the continued secular shift to electronic payments, strong global growth and traction in emerging payments.

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As a leading global payments company, MasterCard (NYSE: MA) serves as a franchisor, processor and advisor to the payments industry, and makes commerce happen by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, governments, businesses, merchants and cardholders worldwide in more than 210 countries and territories.

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