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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

We have a deep dive on accounts payable (AP) automation, analysis on “Google Checking” and news on the T-Mobile data breach. Does ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes? T-Mobile Data Breach Puts Personal Data Of 1M+ Customers At Risk. Silicon Valley Braces As VCs Pump The Brakes.

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APRIL 28, 2020

TripAdvisor is also furloughing another undisclosed number of employees and closing offices in San Francisco and Boston. The employees from San Francisco will be able to work remotely, while Boston employees can work in the Needham, Massachusetts, office.

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AUGUST 29, 2020

And instead of Rosey, we have Alexa, Siri and Google – all of whom are getting better on the witty repartees, but whose skills at cooking, cleaning and general chores leave a lot to be desired. Although they look kind of dog-like, they’re actually quadruped robots designed by Boston Dynamics and leased by Ford.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

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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JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the filing , One Medical has nine locations — Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Google is also one of its biggest clients, providing 10 percent of One Medical’s revenue stream. . As of September, the company had 77 physical offices.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Reuters noted that migration to other areas of the country is playing a role, with Santa Clara County — home to Alphabet, the Google parent, and Apple — seeing the biggest decline. Reuters noted that other cities around the country including Boston, Austin, Texas and Raleigh, North Carolina may be attractive to millenials.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Google’s parent company has created a new and improved robot and showed off what it can do in a video. The WSJ story points out that the newest version of Atlas resembles one developed by Boston Dynamics — which was purchased by Google in 2013 and had, before moving into the commercial space, developed robots for the U.S.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Facebook’s move to beef up its AI staff comes at a time when Google and Microsoft are also adding AI employees to their rosters in an effort to beef up their AI offerings. The technology will be integrated into Facebook as a means of assisting users who are locked out of their accounts, at which time the Boston company will shut down.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

3D photo tech available from several smaller suppliers as well as Apple and Google gives consumers the opportunity to shoot a product before buying. Second, time on site: According to Google, the average eCommerce site visit last 1:50 seconds. The main expansion of 3D is being seen in its dual usage for consumers and retailers.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

” In particular, a Shorr Packaging analysis suggests that tech hubs such as Silicon Valley, Boston and Seattle are particularly susceptible to thieves, as these areas face a particularly common problem with stolen packages. In order to arrive at its findings, the company analyzed Google search trends within the 50 largest U.S.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

This issue has come into the spotlight before, even as recently as last year when Google came under fire after reports that they were using millions of people’s data to build a new search network. They denied it, saying all they had access to was patient information in order to organize things, nothing else.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Before there was Alexa , Bixby , Siri and Google Assistant , there was Emma Nutt. She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. Google’s recent announcement makes it clear that it isn’t about to let Alexa hog the road. population had a phone in their homes.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

We’ve all heard of smart speakers — Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod — but what about these other innovations, which are not dedicated devices but have connected capabilities baked right into the appliance? Innovations such as…. Miscellaneous. Probably not long at all.

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JUNE 5, 2019

The company recently launched a new reader that’s compatible with mobile wallets, such as Google Pay and Apple Pay. In this month’s feature story, PYMNTS caught up with vendors from Boston and San Diego to explore how mPOS is becoming increasingly critical to winning business at Pride events.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Give said scientist(s) a budget to lease a Tensor Flo server with Google and start parsing transaction data. Example: There was a recent TED talk in which Boston Consulting Group’s Sylvain Duranton took on the task of mixing human and AI decisioning to free companies from what he called the “algocracy” of AI dominance. This is easy.

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MAY 29, 2020

Next, Carder developed a plan to unleash the students, who have digital marketing and product management skills, to the retail community along with partnerships in their belts from Google, Facebook and Shopify. Fifty students were chosen, and Carder convinced the city to pay all 50 positions. And then there’s the attitude.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Google, for instance, has its Midwest headquarters in the former Fulton Market Cold Storage building. Building upon its Boston-area staff, Facebook plans to open a new office in neighboring Cambridge next year. Cambridge, Massachusetts. The new offices will be located on the top three floors at 100 Binney St.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

According to a Lowe’s blog post on the subject, the Smart Home shops will include thermostats, cameras, lighting, speakers and more from brands like Google, Sonos, GE, Nest, Iris, Samsung and Ring. Consumers will get to work with 60 smart home products in a “fully immersive format.”.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

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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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Google brought a payments app to the country in September. Digital payments in India are still in their early days, but the jockeying will be intense for a digital payments market that could grow to $500 billion by 2020, as estimated by Google and Boston Consulting Group, as connectivity gels with commerce.

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MAY 29, 2017

Some were already investors in the startup, which is headquartered in New York City and will use the funding to expand into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Other participants in the round of fundraising included CoVenture, Y Combinator, TIA Ventures, Bionic Fund, Cocoon Ignite Ventures and FJ Labs.

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JUNE 13, 2016

A user who lives in Boston will deal with an Alexa who knows that fact when he asks about how the Red Sox are doing. Alexa’s marketplace is getting increasingly common, and Google’s Echo competitor is already generating a lot of buzz for being that much smarter and better with human being’s voice commands.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Kaspersky noticed in June a Google calendar scheme that aimed to trick users into giving away personal information. Among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB), which offers food services to 190 cities and towns in the eastern Massachusetts region.

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MARCH 4, 2016

It’s worth noting that Schmidt won’t be consulting the DOD as a representative from Google. Is Schmidt’s appointment a sign that Google is now in the back pocket of federal authorities? Rather, WSJ noted, the Pentagon-sanctioned group is just that — a Pentagon initiative through and through.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Eat Your Coffee CEO and Co-founder Johnny Fayad was in college in Boston when he helped come up with the idea to make energy bars. Eat Your Coffee accepts credit cards as well as express checkout options, including PayPal , Amazon Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay. The Differentiators.

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APRIL 27, 2018

The restaurant, Spyce , is set to open this spring in central Boston. Italian QSR Fazoli used Amazon’s Alexa to enable voice ordering at its locations and planned to add Google Assistant and Google Home in the future. An earlier version was opened at an MIT cafeteria. The technology was also being used in its mobile apps.

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JULY 30, 2019

Just look to Google. It recently introduced the ability to order food for pickup or delivery via services like DoorDash, Postmates and ChowNow through Google Maps. And there are plans to expand the service to additional markets in the coming months, including Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

The following year, Google went on an acquisition spree, buying 7 robotics startups, including Boston Dynamics and Redwood Robotics. In 2012, Amazon bought industrial robotics startup Kiva Systems for $775M. But last year was the busiest year for robotics M&A … Continued.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

If a guest orders a Boston cream donut every Monday for an extended period of time, for example, then skips a week, Dunkin’s AI can send a coupon for the donut to encourage a return visit. We’re still early in that journey,” she said. We’re still early in that journey,” she said. Dunkin’s priority remains its in-house mobile app, however.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

That’s a figure Webster said she found hard to believe, but Xiao said that’s because she does most of her dining Boston — where phones’ prominence is a lot lower and digital channels are far more strongly developed. Xiao said the majority of U.S. He said Bensen AI’s experience in the sector is instructive.

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APRIL 29, 2017

So in some sense, it is not surprising that the team at Boston Dynamics chose a dog to be their robotic delivery beast. Spot is Boston Dynamics’ attempt to branch out some — since before being bought by Google, its robots were largely funded by military contracts. D. Something they’d never want to see at their front door.

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APRIL 16, 2018

It’s why I said then that Google Search and Amazon and platforms like them — not Facebook — are among the new power brokers in our world. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. That’s not the case with Google Search. billion searches a day or some 1.2

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JUNE 21, 2016

Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is currently trying to develop self-driving cars and has been historically interested in robotics. However, that interest has been waning in recent months, as Boston Dynamics in now up for sale. Toyota is not alone in this race.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

It’s what Google is hoping Google Home and “Ask Google” will do for them. In 2016, consumers “asked Google” to perform at least two trillion searches every year. This year, Google reported that 15 percent of those searches were for brand-new search terms, but down from the 20 to 25 percent they claimed in 2007.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Google couldn’t make smart glasses work, and Snapchat’s Spectacles haven’t exactly done a booming business either, but Amazon is optimistic that it has the missing piece to push this futuristic technology to success, and her name is Alexa. Rose-Colored Glasses. Kohl’s Partnership. Setting Trends. One year ago, that percentage was only 16.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. It’s a multi-pronged attack that is leveraging both gadgets and a big reboot of the in-store experience that the Boston-based firm is betting big on. The Step Into Tech: The RunIQ .

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MARCH 11, 2016

Of that 44 percent, 67 percent requested Apple Pay specifically, 18 percent requested Google Wallet and Android Pay, 8 percent requested PayPal and 7 percent requested Samsung Pay. “It According to the recently released figures, 44 percent of those vendors’ customers are using, or have asked about using, mobile digital payment systems.

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