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‘Google Checking,’ T-Mobile Data Breach Top This Week’s News

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We have a deep dive on accounts payable (AP) automation, analysis on “Google Checking” and news on the T-Mobile data breach. The data did not reportedly include password information, Social Security numbers or financial information. Does ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes? Other investors include T.

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Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App Landscape

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Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Google Announces Android Instant Apps. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments.

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Pride Vendors Look To Triple Sales With mPOS

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Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services. The company recently launched a new reader that’s compatible with mobile wallets, such as Google Pay and Apple Pay. This is especially true in North America, where consumers are still heavily reliant on plastic cards and cash payments.

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Dr. Siri, M.D.

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Jim Harper, CEO of Sonde Health in Boston, which is working on voice tests to monitor for postpartum depression, Parkinson’s and dementia, was quoted as saying: “We’re trying to make this ubiquitous and universal by engineering a technology that allows our software to operate on mobile phones and a range of other voice-enabled devices.”.

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Inside Dunkin’s AI-Powered Mobile Ordering App

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but this growth was stymied because customers were required to preload credit cards into their apps to use the program. Many customers were hesitant to do so, fearing security breaches. All they had to do to earn points was scan a QR code on the Dunkin’ app or swipe a new physical membership card.

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What Payments Innovators Can Learn From Monkeys

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For 50 years, consumers have been trained to produce a plastic card of some kind at the point of sale to pay for something. They know they can do that anywhere they shop – the biggest of the big stores and the smallest of the mom-and-pop shops – and that their card will be accepted and will work. This Is the Human Brain on Habits.

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What Everyone Missed About Facebook

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And not because everyone who touches the consumer shouldn’t consider data privacy and security part of the deal they must have with their consumers if they want those consumers — their crown jewels — to keep coming back. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things.

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