PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

Google CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against talk of regulating tech companies, saying that the move could have unintended consequences, according to a report by CNBC. “I The government “can’t take for granted” the success that companies like Google have, Pichai said. isn’t the only one looking to regulate Google.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

To help shoppers use gift cards, coupons and loyalty rewards when paying with their mobile phones, Ingenico Group has made Google Pay Smart Tap available on its point of sale (POS) systems in the U.K. We are excited to start integrating Google Pay Smart Tap in the U.K., integration is the first step in its international deployment. “We

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

More banks are therefore moving away from legacy core systems to embrace cloud-native architectures to power automation and meet the speed expected by consumers, securely. The bank is working with technology giants Google and Microsoft to create new cloud-based tools that will use their cloud computing software.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

Every business walks the same tightrope when it comes to processing payments: Convenience versus security. It doesn’t matter if the business is consumer-facing or serving other businesses (B2B); security is top of mind for all of them, yet adding more layers can introduce more friction, and that can scare customers away.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2017

While America was busy watching the solar eclipse (hopefully with the appropriate protective eyewear), Google rolled out its new Android OS and created the world’s first crowdsourced “Eclipse Megamovie” using footage from across the U.S. Oreo also touts new security features, app install controls, and emojis. Android Oreo Confirmed.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

While the competition part of the story is usually where the action is in payments and commerce – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s innovating, who’s imitating – sometimes the news isn’t about who is getting ahead, but who is working harder to get there. eBay Drafts Google Pay.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

Paul Taylor is a former Google engineer who developed the speech recognition software used in the smartphones. Reports on Wednesday (July 13) said Taylor has founded a company to provide financial institutions with a blockchain-based operating system. “What the blockchain does is provide a very secure way of storing transactions.”

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Perficient

JANUARY 28, 2021

As we mostly are working remotely these days, securing your space when you’re not in the safeguards of the office walls are critical. Perficient places a high value on data security and has several processes and tools in place to protect colleague and client information, but what about the everyday person?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2017

As much as Google would like users to believe there’s no device like Home, the smart speaker is not exactly delivering an over-the-rainbow experience for some. The idea was that users would be able to listen to Play Music tracks even if they hadn’t invested in Google’s streaming service subscription.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

Google’s Australia and New Zealand managing director, Maile Carnegie, was poached by ANZ Banking Group to act in its newly created group executive digital banking role starting in July, Reuters reported Tuesday (March 1). Data from KPMG estimates that nearly A$27 billion ($19.21

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

Mobvoi, a China-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has almost secured funding to value the company at upwards of $1 billion before an initial public offering, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company, which was started by former Google employees and is backed by the company, wants to raise $100 million.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

He also offers advice for how to innovate in the field. Here is an excerpt of the conversation: PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done? JB: Innovation often means taking a risk.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Vast numbers of consumers are happy to ask Alexa, Siri or the Google Assistant to play a song, find a recipe or dim the lights in their smart homes. Specifically, many hotels are turning to tech solutions like voice controls to bring customers back in by making them feel more secure.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) — chiefly for a new watchdog group — the proposed regulatory regime is intended “harness the full potential of digital markets, driving greater competition and innovation,” according to a CMA statement. In recommendations issued earlier in the month by the U.K.’s Beyond The Companies .

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

To maximize call centers’ capabilities and efficiency, operators are turning to a host of tools and technologies, including voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI). Voice recognition is fast gaining popularity in the call center space as providers work to up their security defenses. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

House committee this week began reviewing the idea of allowing the likes of Amazon or Facebook to receive charters to operate as banks — an idea that’s already gotten plenty of pushback from traditional financial institutions (FIs). This means getting regulation right is critical.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Creating innovation that’s both meaningful and lasting requires more than just coming up with a great idea. PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? TC: Traditionally, we’ve relied on our partners and client advisory committees to help direct our innovation, which in a way made us a fast follower.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2019

Founder and CEO Douglas Merrill, a former Google CIO, told Bank Innovation that ZAML Fair, an add-on to the company's existing ZAML (Zest Automated Machine Learning) platform, is a new algorithm that lenders can use to tune […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

Plus, the testimony of tech giants on Capitol Hill revealed chief executive officer views on competition and innovation. Report: India’s National Payments Corp Vulnerable To Security Breaches. of India (NPCI) discovered over three dozen security risks in 2019. Enova To Buy OnDeck In $90M Stock And Cash Deal.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Staying abreast of these various compliance shifts can be costly and challenging for banks, but doing so is necessary to ensure that financial institutions’ (FIs) operations can run smoothly and ward off cyberattacks. The pandemic may not have created the challenges banks face in keeping their cloud strategies and innovations compliant.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are doubling down on data security. Effective data security features are critical to securing this information. However, Facebook and Amazon are not the only Big Tech companies with a need to innovate in data security. The Future of Data Security.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted. The list goes on.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Customer loyalty and FinTech Paytronix has secured $10 million in new funding led by Great Hill Partners and the company’s Co-founders Matt d’Arbeloff and Andrew Robbins. Paytronix has introduced updates and innovations to help the industry stay on track, such as a tool to help restaurants quickly launch online ordering and delivery.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

As car manufacturers, software providers, payments and commerce players and others build the connected vehicle ecosystem, there is increasing experimentation and competition in regards to the best operating systems to install. Car brands are also developing their own in-car systems, including those operated by voices. percent in 2016.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

This time, it’s a move from Google , but it’s unclear how far these efforts will really go, and whether they will have a major impact anytime soon on consumer perceptions of online trust — one of the biggest ongoing issues in payments and commerce. The push to offer more online privacy to increasingly concerned consumers continues.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

Regulators want to have a greater stake in the way sharing platforms operate. As data security and transparency become greater concerns across a number of markets, some services are already working to confront the challenges. Around the Payments and the Platform Economy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Bakkt’s approach to secure technology, privacy and innovation means that we are an advocate for consumers who have yet to enter the digital asset space, and for merchants who want to accept new, efficient forms of payments without increasing risks,” said Mike Blandina, chief product officer at Bakkt.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

More companies are looking to expand the number of payment options they offer, such as internet giant Google. The company has expanded its longstanding partnership with payment provider PayPal, allowing customers to access PayPal through additional Google Apps. Why TickPick Is Betting On Instant Payments, Fee Transparency.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

In the July Subscription Commerce Tracker , PYMNTS explores how subscription-based businesses are adapting to an ever-changing market, and how they keep their payments experience secure. The latest entry is Google Stadia, a cloud gaming service announced prior to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last month.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Better malware defenses from Google Play? Last week, along with its launch of the new operating system iOS 11 , Apple rolled out a whole new design for the iOS App Store. Google Play Malware Defense. percent risk of picking up potentially harmful apps (Google’s euphemism for malicious apps containing malware).

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Europe’s Monese , which touts itself as a mobile-first, multi-lingual, transnational provider of consumer and business banking services that operates in 31 countries using 14 languages, is adopting Thought Machine ’s cloud banking platform, the companies announced on Monday (Oct. The platform is called Vault. “At

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Last year brought the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline, Europe’s attempt to boost online privacy and security for consumers — a law that just resulted in a $57 million fine against Google , which was accused of not doing enough to gain the consent of users when collecting data meant for targeted advertising.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

As of early 2019, Amazon and Google are the two main competitors for that crown, and they are not quite equally matched insofar as Amazon’s market share is greater. And, of course, Alexa and Google weren’t the only players to take the stage. Alexa also made a strong showing among several smart home security products.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Google today relaunched its Google Ideas think tank as Jigsaw, a technology incubator, and the new venture has several projects aimed squarely at some of banking’s thorniest issues. Officially, Jigsaw’s “mission is to use technology to tackle the toughest geopolitical challenges.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

However, marketing and fulfillment, which usually make up most of the company’s operating expenses, grew at less than 30 percent over the same period. If there is no scale, there is saving,” Chen Zhang told a group of reporters in Beijing on Tuesday (November 6). The company is also looking to expand overseas.

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