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Are Mobile Payments Finally Ready To Ignite In Japan?

PYMNTS

They are eager participants in modern eCommerce, and Japanese firms were literally on the ground floor of the development of mobile payments since Japanese firms invented the two key cashless payments technologies that power the vast majority of mobile payments done today. percent) and paying for orders with cash in convenience stores (17.5

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Facebook And Dating: It’s (Not) Complicated

PYMNTS

Before online matchmaking intermediaries like Match.com and Tinder tried their hand at increasing those odds, there was Frigyes Karinthy , SixDegrees, Friendster, not to mention village matchmakers. The basic idea occurred about seven decades before the first online social networks. That does make it seem kinda hard.

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Retail’s Adapt-Or-Die Moment: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Commerce

CB Insights

Below, we analyze how AI, machine learning, and computer vision-based technologies — including robots used for heavy lifting, navigation, and assembly tasks — are impacting all parts of the retail chain, from the manufacturing of goods all the way to their distribution. Consumer channels: online vs in-store. Table of contents.

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Finovate Debuts: ICAR Builds a Digital Identify Profile for Client ID Verification

Fintech Labs Insights

Based in Barcelona, Spain, ICAR launched in 2002 as a spin-off of the Computer Vision Center at the University of Barcelona. At FinovateEurope last month, the company showed off its mobile onboarding solution, ID_Mobile , that leverages biometric technology combined with the social network and geolocation of the user.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

What Cerent’s technology did was help connect long-haul communications lines and the local telephone and data network. And as the number of internet hosts increased, according to a study by the Internet Systems Consortium, the need for efficient optical network technology did, too. To do that fully, UCWeb needed investment.

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