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Hearst Team Creating Amazon Skills For Alexa

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Media company Hearst has put together a team of 10 people that is tasked with staying on top of cutting-edge technology, including voice-activated devices from the likes of Amazon and Google, and creating products and services around them. Last week, the new group rolled out an Amazon Echo skill for its Good Housekeeping brand.

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Walmart-Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: A Slow Start To A New Year

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As has been the trend for the last few years, increasingly that buzz is about voice-activated artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Alexa and Google assistant. based rival Google will be making a hard press on the benefits of the voice-integrated life for CES attendees. Tech Upgrade of the Week: Hand Recognition Patent Filed .

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Congress Wants Digital Platforms To Release Their Algorithms – Why?

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It’s not clear how the Act’s co-authors define a large-scale internet platform, but the book that is its namesake highlights Google, Facebook and Apple as examples of quintessential “filter bubbles.”. Google competes with Facebook for ad dollars and eyeballs, but vies with Apple in an entirely different way.

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Mastercard Send: From P2P To B2B To SMB

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In those early days, Krikorian said, Google was using Mastercard Send for wallet cash-outs and P2P transfers, while Allstate embraced the ability to send insurance payouts to its customers faster than ever. That capability took off in a few Eastern European markets, as well as a handful in Asia Pacific. What’s Next.

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The Apple Pay Pivot?

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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 Exxon is not the first brand to embrace Apple Pay. “I live in Houston, Texas, so it’s blazing hot in the summertime,” Russell said.

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The Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: The Delivery Edition 

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Amazon is not alone in its New York City expansion plans: Facebook has also leased a massive space in Hudson Yard and Google has plans to add 7,000 employees to the city over the next 10 years. And New York City still retains that attraction.”. Alphabet also signed a lease earlier this year for 1.3

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Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News

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8, Levchin told Karen Webster, Affirm can give an entirely new answer to that question as it has rolled out a new app that will allow customers to use the service to pay almost anywhere online or (with an assist from Google Pay and Apple Pay) in the real world. As of Oct. Trackers and Reports. Levi Strauss & Co.

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