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Model Bank 2017: Some First Impressions

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Ongoing innovation in banking technology is clearly beginning to pay off, and we’ve been privileged to learn an immense amount from all of the financial institutions that took the time to tell us about their how they’ve been using technology and innovation to serve customers better, become more efficient, and mitigate risk.

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Tech Center: Startup Genome’s 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report

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In its seventh administering of this research, dubbed the “Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017,” Startup Genome was able to uncover the current state of the globalization of startups and their ecosystems. The technology industry currently sits at 4.5 While global growth is only at 2.6 Los Angeles.

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Google Gets Back Into Robotics

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As PYMNTS covered in 2017, SoftBank , the Japanese telecommunications company, announced that a subsidiary of SoftBank entered into a definitive agreement to acquire robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics from Alphabet , the parent company of Google. Before Boston Dynamics was acquired by Google, it was largely funded by the U.S.

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Celent Model Bank Awards 2017: Banking Products Innovation

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The Products entries for 2017 fall broadly into four sub-categories: Payments Product — for launching the best consumer or business payments product. Join us for the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston. This week’s article focuses on Model Bank entries in the Products category.

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Celent Model Bank Awards 2017: Banking Products Innovation

Celent Banking

The Products entries for 2017 fall broadly into four sub-categories: Payments Product — for launching the best consumer or business payments product. Join us for the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston. This week’s article focuses on Model Bank entries in the Products category.

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DOJ’s Delrahim: Antitrust Laws Apply To Big Tech

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And the question is, are these platforms…[are] these technology platforms [utilities] to convey information between you and me, or are they publishers with the same editorial standards as CBS…Wall Street Journal and NBC?” The official was confirmed to the position in September 2017 by the U.S. The Boston Globe reported in August 2017.

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Silicon Valley Investor Aims To Create Tech Hub In Maine

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The city can’t hope to compete in every way with heavy-hitters like Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, which captured nine out of 10 jobs between 2005 and 2017. So it will have to go its own way with the new institute to be called the Roux Institute after Silicon Valley investor David Roux, its patron.

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