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The Great Online Innovation Pile On Of 2017

PYMNTS

The regulators in Europe piled a $2.7 I wrote a whole piece about this several weeks back, where I did a bit of my own piling onto the EU for the reality-challenged arguments behind the fine and its new regulations of Google. You don’t even need to be an antitrust expert to get that this is a baseless claim. Investors put $2.65

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Ripple Effects: Mobile Payments Are Just The Beginning

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The picture is so different to the traditional warehouse setting, where workers buzz about on forklifts stacking and picking and conforming to safety regulations and just-in-time processes. GlobalWorkplaceAnalystics.com reported that the number of non-self-employed people working from home has grown by 103 percent since 2005.

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US Poised For Some Growth in 2016 Says S&P

Tech and Finance

Contrary to popular reports that millennials are mostly taking public transportation or using Uber so they can keep texting without interruption, S&P found they aren’t much different from previous generations, although somewhat fewer are getting drivers licenses, causing concern among auto manufacturers. went to a millennial.

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AI Will Put 10 Million Jobs At High Risk — More Than Were Eliminated By The Great Recession

CB Insights

Our time frame was the next 5-10 years, and the relative risk of automation was based on factors including tasks involved, current commercial deployment of technology, patent activity, investment activity, technological challenges, and regulations. Robot-run warehouses are already in operation. workers). AI Startups. in funding.

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2019: What To Take Forward And What To Leave Behind

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And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. Leave Mobile Payments, Embrace Ambient Commerce. I’m glad I got your attention. Consider this.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

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The season takes place in the year 1985 – 10 years before eCommerce and Amazon, and seven years before today’s 27-year-old millennials were born. Between 1956 and 2005, 1,500 malls were built in the U.S. The setting for season three of the Netflix blockbuster Stranger Things is the Starcourt Mall.