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How B8ta Gives Consumers A Technology Test-Drive

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B8ta’s goal is to give technology makers with big innovations (and small ones, of course) access to a physical channel when they are too still small for the biggest stores. B8ta doesn’t make its money selling products — instead, it rents out space in its stores to brands in something that very much resembles a monthly subscription plan.

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How financial services firms are using chatbot technology to transform their businesses

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The financial services industry is one of the fastest adopters of this technology. Experience a live demo of Digital Human, and see what’s driving their adoption and how it’s being applied in the real world at Think. The IBM Watson Assistant team has been busy in the past year helping clients implement state-of-the-art chatbots.

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Square Gets Patent For Crypto-Friendly Real-Time Payments System

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The patent application states that the technology will enable a person to pay in any currency, and allow the recipient to receive that payment in whatever currency they choose, with the network itself automatically changing the first payment into the desired currency. Square also announced on Tuesday (Jan.

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10 Big and Small Ideas From Gartner and Money 20/20 – Recap

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Gartner focused on technology infrastructure, while Money 20/20 was around fintech and payments. Small Idea – It’s Our Kid’s Technology. It was a sobering thought to realize that we are all really building most of this technology for our kids. Complicated technology sucks, but mortality sucks more. Big Idea – Trends.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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Benson Porter, Boeing Employees CreditUnion – Porter led BECU through an amazing streak of growth in the Pacific Northwest, all while building an innovative, stakeholder-driven brand respected nationally. Goes to Allison Netzer and Liz High for their provocative tome, Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank. The Smarter Bank Technology Award.

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Transforming Financial Institutions With Agile

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Once the Roadmap and team objectives are established, stakeholders should work with information technology partners to identify high-level solutions. Preferred technologies (UI/UX technologies, backend technologies like Java,Net, ETL Informatica, etc.) Sprint demos are to occur toward the end/last day of a sprint.

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Alexa Fund Selects Nine Cos For Alexa Accelerator

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The finale of Accelerator will be Demo Day in October 2018, where the selected companies will showcase their progress in front of investors, leaders from Amazon and the Seattle tech community.

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