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• Apparel retailer Eddie Bauer LLC said payment cards used at its more than 350 U.S. and Canadian stores from Jan. 2 to July 17 may have been compromised by malware placed on its point-of-sale systems, KrebsOnSecurity.com reported. The malware has been removed; Eddie Bauer said the “intrusion was part of a sophisticated attack directed at multiple restaurants, hotels, and retailers, including Eddie Bauer.”
• Nearly one-third of 1,185 consumers said in a survey they would be willing to buy a house or a car using a smart phone. Among men, the percentage was 41%; among women, 21%. The survey was conducted by Roadster, a vendor of e-commerce solutions for car buying and leasing, and research firm Survata.
• MoneyGram International Inc. said it will waive transaction fees on all donations up to $249.99 going to the American Red Cross to support disaster recovery following recent floods in Louisiana. The fee waiver is in effect through Sept. 30.
• ATM maker Cummins-Allison Corp. said it has completed EMV certification of its ATMs on Vantiv Inc.’s network.
• Diebold Inc.’s now-completed acquisition of German ATM maker Wincor Nixdorf AG faces new scrutiny from the United Kingdom’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, according to news reports.
• Infinite Peripherals Inc. hired Eric Nicolaisen for the newly created position of director for enterprise product management. Nicolaisen comes to the company after a 17-year career with Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry devices.
