PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Achieving those mission-critical seconds has never had more options, with the QSR industry in the midst of enjoying a boom in new technologies that promise to reduce wait times while boosting food quality and customer service. The restaurant, Spyce , is set to open this spring in central Boston.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2017

Voice health functionality could be coming soon to the big names in voice-activated technology. The MIT Technology Review wrote that Mayo also has plans to conduct a similar study in China to determine if these features translate into other languages. Controlling smart lighting, security products and shopping all saw 33 percent.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Smart home products simplify life — but the technology can sometimes be confusing or intimidating. 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.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Google, for instance, has its Midwest headquarters in the former Fulton Market Cold Storage building. Announcing the decision, McAuliffe said, “Working with companies like Facebook and many others, we are advancing Virginia’s position as a global leader in the technology economy.”. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Menlo Park, California.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

He was an essential part of a program that taught Main Street businesses about technology platforms and how to onboard them quickly and efficiently. In 2016, an organization called Digital Main Street was set up by the city of Toronto as a business improvement project for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

The company’s technology was in place at 700 of the company’s stores in the quarter that was most recent. 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.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

On the heels of demonetization, the Ministry of Information Technology said earlier this month that digital transactions will grow 80 percent year on year into 2018, and the monthly average volume stands at around RS 137 crore, compared to 87 in the month before demonetization last November.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The more technologically or health-minded among us might even note things like tablet-based POS systems or an HVAC system with disinfecting UV light built in to attack COVID-19. The company started off in voice technology, particularly in the context of making food ordering via voice assistants like Alexa or Google Assistant.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The app, which was released in May, is available in Apple’s App Store and on Google Play. The finding was reported by Boston Retail Partners in its 20th annual POS/Customer Engagement Benchmark Survey. And nearly three quarters — or 73 percent — of consumers want self-service technology, such as self-checkout. Roche Bros.

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PYMNTS

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.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

With a big focus on technology in Silicon Valley and Boston, New York City slowly made its way to becoming a powerhouse tech player. With New York City having tech company offices including the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, the city has a lot to offer in terms of tech job opportunity and growth.

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PYMNTS

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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NCR

APRIL 26, 2018

The growth of contactless technologies as a fast, convenient option for everyday payment has been illustrated by new figures from Transport for London (TfL), which have revealed half of all pay as you go journeys on the UK capital’s transport networks now use this technology.

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PYMNTS

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 . The Run Hub.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Of course, many also have privacy concerns related to voice-activated technology, even at home — let alone in a shared space, where others use the device before and after them, and where someone (the hotel) could potentially have access to data or moments that the guest would prefer to keep private.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

From the digitization of medical records to smart patient care platforms, technology is disrupting the healthcare industry. Get the 47-page google in healthcare report. See how Google is using AI to transform the $3 trillion US healthcare system. Alphabet (Google) — Verily. Cardinal Health — Fuse. Founded: 2014.

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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A decade ago, many financial institutions were bringing as much technology as possible in-house as a way of controlling their destinies and customizing their core platforms and data warehouses. In the cloud” is common technology vendor-speak for ASP, service bureau, outsourcing, pay-per-click, and a variety of other delivery models.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

It comes as no surprise, then, that big tech players like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are investing heavily in data security — especially as several have fallen victim to data breaches themselves. is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. Table of contents.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

We used CB Insights data gathered via our machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher ) and from thousands of submissions we received from VC partners and firms via The Editor. After 4 years with the company, Brian joined Google as a Software Engineer and inevitably rose to become an Engineering Manager. BILL GURLEY.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Customers, after downloading the new app, log in via Facebook, Google or email and register a card or to use Apple Pay. Android Pay is not yet an option.

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Recent figures have highlighted how efforts are being made to boost banking infrastructure in this part of the world and deliver the right technologies to consumers to help them embrace digital. India set for a digital boom. One market that’s particularly poised for growth is India.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

JUNE 21, 2014

I had the pleasure of speaking at NextBankUSA in Boston the other week on the Future of Payments, as I see them. I think that the deliverance of FNC will come not from Apple, or Google, or Isis, or Facebook, or Square. Dynamic Payments Mobile Amazon Apple EMV FaceBook Google ISIS NFC Square' What can I say? I crack myself up.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Boston-based Drizly , which raised more than $35 million, has a foothold in 70 cities and a stated ambition to be the “Amazon of Alcohol.” “FedEx, DHL and Google Express all struggle in this category. ” But, he notes, the upsides are paying out, and he expects they will continue to pay out in the long term.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. If Google has its way, passwords will be a thing of the past – and hip, hip, hooray for that. Google is said to begin testing an alternative to logging in with passwords in favor of one that mixes a bunch of things to authenticate the consumer. And will people want and use it?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

regulators have levied $126 million in fines for data violations since mid-2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for international cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) governance and U.K. France issued the largest single violation against one firm, fining Google €50 million. Google CEO Calls For AI Governance.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

July 2017 saw the two largest-ever restaurant tech deals: a $151M private equity investment by Vista Equity Partners to Providence-based Upserve , and a $101M Series C (with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Generation Investment Management, and Lead Edge Capital) to Boston-based Toast.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Maybe it is the umpteenth attempt by Google to insert itself into payments. Ask Google Video. Fizzle or Sizzle?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008. The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In London too, Apple Pay works on the Underground, buses and trains, and the company is keen to serve Boston, New York and other cities with tap-and-pay mobile services. payments networks were undermining public confidence in payments technologies, U.S. Operator East Japan Railway Company alone served 17.4

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