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Facebook Faces Billions In Possible GDPR Fines

PYMNTS

As reported, the social media giant was hacked through a vulnerability in the Facebook source code, which gave the attackers the ability to steal access tokens, which they in turn used to keep Facebook subscribers logged in. As has been reported, the U.S.

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In Praise Of The Selfie And The Commerce It Drives

PYMNTS

Now let’s do a match cut to outer space — like that famous early shot of the bone being tossed in “ 2001: A Space Odyssey ” — where, during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966, U.S. based tech firm that recently won a Visa award for its cashless grocery store concept, is on the road toward bringing facial recognition technology to those merchants.

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Like, Love, Yum: Papa John’s ‘No Brainer’ Decision To Be A Facebook ‘Start Order’ First Mover

PYMNTS

By 2001, Papa John’s had incorporated digital ordering at all of its U.S. Previously, users of the social media platform were able to order food from certain individual restaurants, but they had to look up that restaurant’s page in order to do so. This builds on the pizza delivery company’s legacy of digital firsts.

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Unattended Retail Lessons From Caviar Dreams

PYMNTS

PYMNTS recently spoke with the company’s owner, Kelly Knight, about her efforts to develop the vending machine technology, her experience offering caviar through unattended retail solutions and issues around accepting payments for high-end transactions. Hatching a new idea to dispense fish eggs.

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Why The Sweet Smell Of Tech Success Can Be Rife With Failure

PYMNTS

In 2001, at the COMDEX Fall computer show, Microsoft ’s then-CEO Bill Gates introduced to the world to the Microsoft Tablet PC. Plus, wireless internet was still in its early days in 2001 and 3G was nonexistent in the U.S. For example…. The Tablet. The Miss . Microsoft’s Tablet PC. The Famicom Console.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1 percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1

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“Life” at Fiserv Spring Forum

Social Assurance

The theme was captured best through social media with the thoughts of my fellow attendees. From the opening sequence to the closing breakout sessions, bankers were energized to share how technology changes life and banking. Technology Interrupts Life. He began: 9/4/2001 pic.twitter.com/TFtRqEjFOr.