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FitPay Founder & COO Michael Orlando Joins Bank Innovation 2018

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EXCLUSIVE- Michael Orlando, founder of FitPay, a provider of payment technology for wearables, has joined the speaker faculty for Bank Innovation 2018, which takes place March 5-6 in San Francisco. Orlando founded FitPay in 2014. The company went on to be acquired by security technology company Next-ID Inc.,

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Powering Retail Innovation With Digital Technology

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Data: 2014: The year Lumen was founded. In investments, retail dispute management firm Chargeback closed a funding round to speed up growth and to help retailers reduce credit card disputes. And in tech, the future of retail may include mobile scanning. All this, Today in Data.

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Innovation Still Centers on Cards as Mobile Payments Languish

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Cards may be fumbling at the innovation game, but they’re still the center of the payments world, while mobile payments remain a geeky sideshow.

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Transformations In Social Media Commerce And Restaurant Technology 

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And in restaurant innovation, Domino ’s has become a leader in mobile and digital technology as it blazes its own path in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) world. 2014: The year Domino’s launched its AI-enabled chatbot as a voice-activated app. All this, Today in Data.

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Why Collaboration Is Credit Unions’ Payments Innovation Advantage

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It’s a model based on the concept of collaboration and cooperation, two ideals that have become instrumental in the financial services arena’s payments innovation efforts. ” That global reach also had the CU prioritizing global payments innovation from the get-go. As the U.S.

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Providing Wine Consumers With eCommerce Innovations

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Wine Insiders , in one case, has combined edgy technology and innovations, and supplemented traditional marketing channels with digital advertising. 2014: The year that DRINKS , which was Wine Insiders’ chief competitor, acquired the company. All this, Today in Data.

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2016 Innovators to Watch: 1 to 5

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Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.