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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. It rolls out first to the Google Pixel and Nexus 5X and 6P devices. Android Oreo Confirmed.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

There is lots of motion in the markets, with Apple officially moving into the world of being a card issuer (with mixed reviews), Venmo making moves on the bank account and Google Pay breaking up with Visa Checkout as a payments button. Apple’s Expensive Card. More than 64 percent of U.S. More than 64 percent of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Plus, the State Administration for Market Regulation in China has fined Luckin Coffee and other firms. The idea of a digital token has been touted by a number of nations and firms lately. India's Paytm Takes On Google Over Android Power. PayPal, Mastercard Add 5 EU Countries To Debit Card Offering.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Speaking of competing with Apple, the two are now in a price war over ultra HD video streaming, while Amazon’s free hand battles Google over the search engine giant’s surprise (or not) decision to stop supporting YouTube videos on the Echo Show. Google And Amazon Put On A Show. Google isn’t the only one giving Amazon some pushback.

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JUNE 8, 2020

News came over the past few days that Amazon may look to buy (not build) a presence in India’s mobile industry, through a reported $2 billion stake in Bharti Airtel, which is the third largest operator there. In terms of mechanics of the deal, if Amazon were to pony up those billions, it would garner a 5 percent stake in Bharti Airtel.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

According to one recent estimate , consumers globally in the third quarter of 2018 downloaded 29 million apps from Apple and Google app stores, up 10 percent year over year. Another estimate put app spending via Apple and Google at $18.2 For its part, Google Play earned $6.2 billion in the quarter on Google apps, a 21.5

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Brain activity is always *ON* in the same way that your computer is always running background software for its operating system. tribes, nations, companies, societies, NFT Discords?—?have We are being unfair in categorizing both, there is much deeper nuance about market failure and apriori distribution.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, Google has reportedly prohibited high-interest consumer loan services from its Google Play store. Google Play Store Boots Payday Loan Apps. Google Play Store Boots Payday Loan Apps. High-interest consumer loan services are now prohibited from having apps on the Google Play store.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

For Google — and specifically for Google Pay — India’s continued push into digital payments offers a tremendous greenfield opportunity, and perhaps a roadmap to help shape (digital) go-to-market efforts in other parts of the globe. The offering covers service plans from companies such as Jio, Vodafone and Airtel, among others.

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JULY 1, 2016

Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. Startups are estimated to employ nearly 300,000 on the island nation. Singapore is poised to become the world’s first country to make the notion of a “Smart Nation” an actual reality.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

Starting with some of the most recent changes — and a sign of what’s to come — earlier in the month, the European Commission offered up its initial draft of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. The watchdog would be known as the Digital Markets Unit. In recommendations issued earlier in the month by the U.K.’s

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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). However, the banking industry doesn’t like that one bit. “We

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Let’s start off with an understanding of what quantum computing is, how it’s going to reshape the world, and what the current market trends look like. If you want to model the world, we can encode the very rules of physics into its operations on qubits just like we would use logic gate circuits on classical bits. Alphabet Inc.

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JUNE 24, 2016

India led the competition with the most funding rounds, as investors supported the nation’s efforts to develop the digitization and sophistication of more traditional business operations: eProcurement, eInvoicing, logistics and supply chain management. market struggles with investor doubt and regulatory scrutiny.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Czech tax is aimed at firms like Facebook, Google and others that have more than $750 million in global revenues, and derive at least 3.9 The business services must also reach at least 200,000 accounts in the Czech market. Health Records and Google. As reported , Google is in a partnership with Ascension Health.

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JULY 28, 2016

million in Series A funding that the company plans to use to expand into new markets and further compete with well-heeled online food delivery giants, like Amazon, Google and Instacart. Under CEO Bill Smith’s leadership, Shipt has quickly become a nationally recognized company in the home grocery delivery space.

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JULY 7, 2020

Starting next month, it will cost Amazon, Netflix, Spotify and Google more to do business in Indonesia. With a population of nearly 270 million, Indonesia is in the midst of a boom in its digital economy, which is expected to reach $130 billion by 2025, according to a study by Google, Temasek Holdings and Bain & Co.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Two government officials from European nations have advocated to have watchdogs engage in preventative measures against Big Tech to reduce their strength and handle on the market, according to reports. It is probable that size and market share will be determining factors in who lands on the “Big Tech hit list.”. Regulation.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

is accelerating market convergence for the Santiago Exchange. and Europe the ability to send secure funds to 12 nations in Africa for a reduced charge. Volante Technologies Accelerates Market Convergence For Santiago Exchange. In today’s top payments news around the world, Xoom is now offering clients in the U.S., Canada, U.K.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Digital Services Act is forecast to revamp content management on platforms such as Facebook and Google. The European Commission has rolled out high-profile probes into firms such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon over worries that their market supremacy is negatively impacting competition.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio , the largest in the country, is entering the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) space to compete alongside rivals, reports said on Monday (Jan. 20), including big names like Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm and more. The company was in talks to work with WhatsApp on rolling out the feature.

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JULY 16, 2020

The top court of the 28-nation bloc ruled the transfer of personal data to platforms in the U.S. s Google and Apple Inc. will face a potential disruption of their operations. servers, The Wall Street Journal reported. puts Europeans at risk to American government surveillance without a right to challenge it. Alphabet Inc.’s

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Cashless payments firm USA Technologies (USAT) is expanding its partnership with amusement kiosk operator National Entertainment Network (NEN) to bring expanded cashless payment options to more vending machines and devices, the companies announced in a press release on Friday (Nov. and Puerto Rico.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The move comes as part of a larger targeting of Southeast Asian markets, according to TechCrunch , starting with beginning selected regional services in Singapore in the first quarter of 2017. Two of its nations (Indonesia and Thailand) are ranked in the top 20 economies by their GDP.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

The regulator will police companies like Facebook and Google , and will have the authority to enforce new rules meant to curb anti-competition issues and to protect consumer data from being used and sold without permission. s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which published a report on Wednesday (Dec.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Earlier this week, Japan ’s cabinet proposed a bill that seeks to, as reported by the country’s national daily, The Mainichi , “improve contract transparency” for deals struck by Big Tech firms — specifically, platform operators — and their smaller vendors. Perhaps not surprisingly, Big Tech might be poised to push back.

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APRIL 23, 2020

The bank is working with technology giants Google and Microsoft to create new cloud-based tools that will use their cloud computing software. Google and Microsoft are only two of the many technology providers FIs can work with to move their digital banking schemes forward. The bank has designated $3.7

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JUNE 10, 2019

Reuters noted that around the time Hu was tweeting, China’s state media Xinhua reported the National Development and Reform Commission announced it would create a study to develop a “national technological security management list system.”. Following the initial announcement, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

France, which had vowed to start taxing Google , Apple , Facebook , and Amazon in December if the European Union failed to agree on a digital tax, now says the tax will be implemented on January 1. If the European states do not take their responsibilities on taxing the GAFA, we will do it at a national level in 2019.”.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Manikumar said that doing so would violate a Supreme Court ruling in the country which says that IDs can only be used for government welfare operations. . In other India WhatsApp news , the National Payments Corp. India’s digital payments market is expected to hit $1 trillion by 2023, according to a report by Credit Suisse Group AG.

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MAY 31, 2018

It’s still early — hardly minute one — in the unfolding history of the General Data Protection Regulation , but a winner is emerging that is both familiar and big: Google. It kicked in last Friday, May 25, and promises to guide, influence and rule digital data practices, not only in the EU’s 28 member nations, but also the rest of world.

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JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile wallet app MobiKwik announced that it is partnering with Singapore-based DT One to expand into international markets. The partnership will enable the app to offer international mobile recharge, rewards and airtime credit services in more than 150 nations across some 550 mobile operators.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Within four years there will be 800 million smartphones in-market with facial recognition scanning capabilities. billion phones with fingerprint scanning that will go to market at the same time, and you’ve got the makings of a serious online security upgrade. Add those to the 4.6 Passports aside, the U.S. Making Social Safe Again.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

In today’s top news, Uber sells its India food delivery service to Zomato for a stake in the business, and JPMorgan created a $100 billion funding arm to expand investments in emerging markets. Also, Amazon leads the pack in Europe’s expanding smart home market. Amazon Unseats Google in Fast-Growing EU Smart Home Market.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This past week, Britain’s federal government said its media regulator, known as Ofcom, would be given new oversight to monitor and regulate material posted on the web by companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. The company aims to scale up its share of the payments market after the full rollout is complete.

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JUNE 21, 2019

PayPal, Google Give OCC’s Bank Charter the Cold Shoulder. MoneyGram has tapped into foreign exchange markets for settlements in the past. By changing to the XRP digital currency, however, it forecasts lower operating costs along with the value of working capital it needs. Target Says Weekend Outage Due To NCR Glitch.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Michigan, the legacy home of the nation’s auto industry, now leads the nation in autonomous vehicle policy, says Recode — ahead of Florida, California and a few others with some current legislation. As of now, only motor vehicle manufacturers can operate self-driving car networks in Michigan. On Friday of last week (Dec.

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