PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

In today’s top news, Wells Fargo began taking loan applications, saying it will disperse $10 billion to nonprofits and small businesses, and Apple bought voice assistant startup Voysis. Apple Buys AI Voice Assistant Startup To Make Siri Smarter. Wells Fargo To Cap SMB Bailout Loans at $10 Billion. Siri is getting an assistant, sort of.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

The Apple event, heavy on subscription commerce offerings, took place at time when the company is trying to find more revenue from services given recent stumbles with iPhone sales — a move that seems to be pleasing at least some investors lately. Magazine Subscriptions. One selling point of this service?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

AndroidAuthority.com reported last month that Spotify might still be the biggest music streaming platform in the world, but Apple Music is nipping at its heels. Since 2015, Apple has grown to more than 70 million subscribers , the website reported. Apple Music offers more than 50 million songs available on the cloud.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The FTC is investigating Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet and Microsoft over antitrust implications, and it recently asked the companies to turn over information regarding takeovers of smaller companies between the years of 2010 and 2019. It also wants to examine how the smaller companies operated post-acquisition.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) ruled that the social media network operator was engaged in “serious breaches of data protection.”. Rometty isn’t the first executive to come down on the social media giant. The company was also hit last month with a $644,600 fine in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. The move, however, was publicized in the fall.

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Bussman Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

customers Microsoft’s first major operating system in 6 years, Windows 11, launches Oct. customers Microsoft’s first major operating system in 6 years, Windows 11, launches Oct. customers | Microsoft’s Windows 11 launches Oct. 5 appeared first on Bussmann Advisory AG.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Here’s the latest news from companies in the technology industry, which are coming under increasing scrutiny from officials and criticism from competitors. He also noted that Amazon has invested in excess of $10 billion in “COVID-19 related operating costs” since the pandemic began. Facebook Calls Out New Apple App Privacy Policy.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

With the digital identity market expected to reach $15 billion by 2024, major ID providers such as Google and Apple are racing to improve the identity verification experience. Apple announced its own digital ID program, Sign In with Apple, at its recent Worldwide Developers Conference.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of years, Facebook reportedly enabled some of the world’s biggest tech companies to access the personal data of users — which amounted to the social media giant exempting some businesses from the privacy rules its customers thought they were protected under.

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 23, 2022

It would do that by using technology, design, and data science to provide a customer experience that would generate its publicity. In general, because each product is built on the same technology platform and there are no branches, general and administrative expenses are approximately 85% lower than incumbent banks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2017

When it comes to chatbots, the available outlets for them reside in the cloud, resulting in text-based bots and voice-activated bots like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google’s Home. Within the past year alone, Facebook has been a major player in slowly working its way to improve the way businesses think about chatbots.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Presto Eats operates on a direct-to-consumer (D2C) model, and its products are sent on a weekly delivery schedule. To pay for their meals, shoppers can use PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Apple Pay. The Service. All of our meal kits freeze really well,” Chong said. The Market. .”

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Edelman Trust Barometer shows that public confidence in search engines and social media platforms fell 11 percentage points from 2017 and 2018. Apple — like Google — faces mounting criticism over how it’s handled government censorship in China. Apple: Director of privacy compliance.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

But, he noted, these consumers also have been raised on a more refined version of the retail experience by way of players like Apple, Tesla and other forward thinkers — and it is that hands-on experience they’ve come to enjoy and appreciate as an extension of their digital commerce journeys. “As

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

With this addition, each of the Frightful Five will have its own voice-controlled speaker: Amazon with its Echo family of devices; Google with the Home speaker; Apple with its new HomePod; Microsoft with the Cortana-powered Invoke speaker; and now, Alibaba, with its as-yet unnamed voice assistant and device. It is unlikely to reach the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

Businesses of a certain size — and in industries as varied as construction and restaurants — know the pain of wondering if they will have enough capital to fund operations, inventory, expansion and other mission-critical business activities. Citi Said ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’ To The Apple Card. PayPal Hits $10B SMB Lending Milestone.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

The financial services company recently debuted a new partnership with Russian phone operator and telecom provider MegaFon. The two collaborated on a payments solution designed to enable MegaFon subscribers to make purchases or pay bills via their smartphone using Apple Pay or Samsung Pay and a linked virtual Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

She added that the advent of what is collectively known as the “pays”— that would be, of course, Apple Pay , Google Pay , Samsung Pay and a host of others — has led to an environment where it is easier than ever to connect with the world at large, and pay in-app, on the go and even through the use of social media profiles.

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Abrigo

MAY 5, 2022

million podcasts in the world, you might find it daunting to weed through the lists on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or other platforms to find the best banking podcasts. Some recent episode titles include: “Should Bankers Fear Apple’s Future Growth Strategy?” Regular, Timely Episodes. Weeding through banking podcasts to find gems.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

According to a report , the Fire TV platform from the eCommerce operator “now has over 40 million users. For instance, Amazon, Google, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance unveiled a new working group to promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to make smart home products more compatible with security as a design tenet.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are doubling down on data security. We take a look at leading data security startups and the emerging technologies that are giving data security systems a much needed upgrade. Facebook, Apple, and Google are prioritizing security to share data with advertisers.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Amazon and Apple have both launched their own virtual assistants. Looking ahead.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As Mahoney noted, the pandemic has transformed the way businesses operate and reach their consumer. The digital wallets, through Google and Apple, he said, offer a way for merchants to let consumers translate and convert whatever points they’re managing directly onto a POS and gain control over their rewards.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The total combined value of the Frightful Five — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — is indeed a frightful amount, most recently tallied at $3.3 The daughter posted the video online where it quickly spread to YouTube, tech websites covering Apple goods and other outlets. That amounts to one-third of the population.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. Mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Android Pay are also accepted. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for figuring out digital ordering. The Whole Pie.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This happened despite sophisticated technology capabilities that successfully flagged many other types of inappropriate postings, like pornography, and kept them off the platform for years. Only 38 percent of hate speech content was identified by their technology in Q1 2018, they reported, resulting in the removal of 2.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Technology that enables consumers to control their data as they shop, pay and perform other tasks online. Users of the technology could use apps that are based on the Solid technology, which are reportedly a work in progress. This is how people, Berners-Lee says, will take back the power of the web from corporations.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2018

billion in five quarters, not counting acquisitions — just good, old-fashioned operational costs. They are also likely the best possible investor in Snap — as the owner-operator of WeChat and WeChatPay, Tencent is the world’s leading experts at monetizing a chat platform. And one way technology can help wring costs out of the system?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

As mobile devices continue to be a pervasive force in the technology arena, so does the need for forward thinkers in the field. I saw this emerging need that our technology could address in a way that no one else was doing. JB: Generally, people underestimate how long widespread consumer adoption of new technology can take.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

has evolved over the years from operations oversight to overseeing operations and innovation. But now his current role is to focus entirely on developing forward-looking financial retail offerings, including mobile and online banking, card technologies and other emerging channels and devices. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2019

It was bulky, the screen interactivity was buggy and – most critics noted – the Windows XP operating system worked wonderfully for desktop computers, but was a bad fit on a tablet, and mostly served to make it slow. That time lag also let Apple build up a veritable army of developers chomping at the bit to build for the iPad at its release.

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Lex Sokolin

APRIL 28, 2021

Now, Mad Money and its angry charismatic host are part of a legacy media industry structure; one which has been melted down by technology. Old media requires intermediation by human curators. Steve Jobs was 20 for Apple. Meet the fin-fluencers: Raised on social media, fueled by boredom and flush with stimulus checks? —?scores

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Stripe rolled out chargeback protection, Apple rolled out its take on sign-in authentication , Mastercard launched an open banking platform and Visa and Western Union paired on a global push to card payments – and those are just the top headlines. The shuttering comes as JPMorgan has spent heavily on technology, with $11.5

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. With a combination of creativity, using this generation’s technology and some of the old-fashioned, yet time-tested customer service and marketing techniques their parents knew well. Conservative bankers might dismiss social media.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

The fact remains that FinTech upstarts are making strides, and any number of tech juggernauts — from Apple to Amazon — are nibbling around the edges of financial services. The banks are partnering or acquiring at a heady pace and deploying technologies, like AI and cognitive, to bring those services to a brand that feels seamless.

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