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SMB Alt-Lending Gears Up For Another Industry Shakeup

PYMNTS

and other nations around the world as a result of the global pandemic continues to draw comparisons to the 2008 financial crisis — so it’s only natural that analysts may turn to the past in an effort to predict what could lie ahead. The level of market volatility hitting the U.S.

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Bye Bye Bougie: Curtsy Offers Closet Strategies For Gen Z

PYMNTS

Today, Curtsy has left its roots at Ole Miss and moved to California, where with the tailwind of $14 million in funding and the backing of Y Combinator , the company is refining its operations and looking to grow its target market. “So, So, Curtsy by comparison is, like, dummy-proof.”. Oates said. Dummy Proof.

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New Toshiba Commerce System Offers Retailers ‘Amazon Go At Scale’

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As COVID-19 has demonstrated, many retailers struggled to move fast enough to create sustainable operating models for curbside pick-up, contactless delivery and more.”. He said Elera allows other retailers to capture such data in a system that operates at scale, which Amazon has so far not done with its Amazon Go concept. Enter Elera.

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Milestones

PYMNTS

That night, the “name that tune”-style game was given the Alexa treatment, adding voice functionality to the user experience. While 10,000 seems like a major milestone — and it is in some ways — the statistic still pales in comparison to the number of apps that major smartphone operating systems boast.

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Can An ‘Agnostic’ Platform Help eCommerce Merchants Make It?

PYMNTS

To do that, Castro and the team at BigCommerce work with features like SEO tools, helping to direct customers searching for a specific product to a company’s site and listing products on shopping comparison sites like Google Shopping. BigCommerce’s big takeaway?

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J.P.Morgan’s Quorum becomes part of ConsenSys

Lex Sokolin

How does software operate? Where does it operate? You would not be able to design this user experience, nor this attention platform without a technology footprint that began with cloud computing and the Internet. As a comparison, we have always needed light, but the technology of light? Who secures it?

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Finovate Debuts: ICAR Builds a Digital Identify Profile for Client ID Verification

Fintech Labs Insights

” Codó continued, “We focus on three main market needs: user experience, fraud prevention and how to connect digital identity to physical identity.” Campmany: We offer a solution for customer onboarding validation that also helps build the digital identity profile of the user. ” Company facts.