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Most people think tipping with a credit card is the same as tipping with cash. After all, 20% is 20%, right? But if you chat with anyone in the service industry who primarily gets paid in tips, you'll ...

President Trump holds the Trump Gold Card while in flight on board Air Force One, en route to Florida in April. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images ...

The long-awaited rollout of the new generation of the Clipper card payment system begins Wednesday, when Bay Area travelers will be able to pay for public transit trips more efficiently and ...

Under a new system rolled out Wednesday, Dec. 10, almost every transit system in the Bay Area will allow riders to pay by tapping a credit or debit card. Related Articles New California driving laws ...

Self-Help Credit Union recently filed a lawsuit against Fiserv alleging the tech giant knowingly provided insecure account processing systems and demanded "ransom" in the form of exorbitant ...

Restaurant spending, both when going out and ordering in, can be a significant portion of people’s budgets. Credit cards can help turn that spending into rewards, but with so many cards on the market, ...

Following a delay of more than a year, public-transit riders will soon be able to pay their fares by tapping their credit or debit cards. Two dozen Bay Area transit-system operators on Wednesday will ...

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign dubbed JS#SMUGGLER that has been observed leveraging compromised websites as a distribution vector for a remote access trojan named ...