Apple will also find substantial competition from efforts of Visa (V), Master Card (MA) and Verizon (VZ).

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So offer up a Master Card and that is not there either.

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If outsourcing call centers cut costs for American Express (NYSE:AXP), it also does for its credit card competitors Visa (NYSE:V) and Master Card (NYSE:MA).

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Master- Card also had a recent management change.

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Shuffle Master, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, makes automated card shufflers for games such as blackjack and is trying hard to break into the videogame market.

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Players will be able to get a taste of the dragon invasion with the Kaijduo Dragon Master Collection Kit dropping on February 19, but if these previews are any indicator the 60-card Dragonstrike Infernus will be the set to watch for dragon enthusiasts and lovers of huge creatures.

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We learn how slow his beginnings were: admirers of the present-day master will be touched by the image of the unpublished 23-year-old toiling away on a card table in his in-laws' front room.

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