For over three decades, the high-pitched zip of a plastic card hitting a turnstile served as the unofficial heartbeat of the ...

The MetroCard, New York City’s finicky transit fare payment system, died on Thursday after years on life support. It was 34.

Something like a flimsy yellow credit card, the MetroCard has bound together nearly everyone in the city—real-estate moguls ...

There were few tears at a funeral for the MetroCard, which included chants of “swipe, swipe” and an urn. To anyone who ...

You will not see the final swipe this weekend. The MetroCard will continue to work for months to come, till the last batch of ...

When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity ...

For more than three decades, lifelong New Yorkers and tourists visiting the Big Apple have shared the experience of a MetroCard swipe gone wrong. Swiping the transit card too fast or too slow, with ...

Most buildings on Brown's campus have traditionally been open and have not required swipe card during daytime hours, but the university plans to do "large-scale systematic security review of the ...

Visa and Mastercard have reached a proposed settlement in a long-running legal fight with merchants and retailers that could determine which credit cards stores accept and whether shoppers face ...

Visa and Mastercard announced Monday that they reached a proposed settlement that would lower charges that merchants pay to the credit card networks. While those fees are paid by the store every time ...

Visa and Mastercard are offering to lower the fees they charge merchants to accept their credit cards to settle 20 years of litigation, but some merchant groups say it's all "smoke and mirrors" and ...