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Gift Card Season Off to the Races: Square Places New Bet, Starbucks Goes All-In, Banks Stuck at Starting Gate

Fintech Labs Insights

This week, digital poster child Square jumped into the plastic gift card market. Unlike many of its new endeavors, old-school cards were met with a decided lack of enthusiasm in the tech press (and my Twitter feed). Many recalled the company''s failed efforts with virtual gift cards (which I liked then, and still do).

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Game-Changing Tech Or Dystopian Nightmare? How 16 Industries Could Be Transformed By Facial Recognition

CB Insights

Facial recognition, along with AR, is also making brands data rich — especially beauty brands. The tech isn’t limited to protecting online data: CaixaBank in Spain is using facial recognition at its ATMs to provide bank customers with an extra layer of security.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

CB Insights

Meanwhile, brands that were already virtual-first have seen dramatic increases in adoption during the crisis. Sales of the interactive at-home fitness brand Mirror doubled in the weeks following Covid-19’s arrival in the US. The average number of daily sign-ups for workout streaming platform NEOU grew 600% in one week.

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