“Visa ‘outage’ brings chaos for millions”

Jun 4, 2018 | In the news

There was a harrowing interview on the BBC yesterday with a man whose Visa card was declined in B&Q. ‘It was so embarrassing’, he said. Another poor lady, an MP, no less, was unable to pay for her meal and had to return to the restaurant the next day. Incredible that one small computer glitch can cause so much misery. I’m sure, however, that they’ll be able to claim compensation for their hell of  unfinished grouting and extra driving more quickly and easily than if they were victims of a botched operation or wrongful arrest. Every cloud…

“Apple versus the world”

Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo, and that is quite big news. What they do put out there is usually a big seller and makes still more big bucks.