How Amazon Hopes To Make Alexa King Of The Road
How Amazon Hopes To Make Alexa King Of The Road
September 04, 2019  |  Voice Activation

When it comes to the household, Amazon’s Alexa rules the roost as America’s favored artificial intelligence (AI)- based voice assistant. It controls between 60 percent...

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Top News In Payments: Mastercard Added To Marco Polo Network; Apple Gains Watch Patents
Top News In Payments: Mastercard Added To Marco Polo Network; Apple Gains Watch Patents
September 04, 2019  |  News

Today in the payments news roundup, Mastercard announced it has joined the Marco Polo Network. Also, Apple has gained three separate patents related to the Apple Watch. And...

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Fiverr Launches Services Store For Gig Businesses
Fiverr Launches Services Store For Gig Businesses
September 04, 2019  |  eCommerce

Fiverr, the company that matches freelancers to jobs, has announced a new eCommerce-based store with the intention of helping online businesses with services that support...

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Digital Bank Chime Offers Overdraft Protection To Its 5M Customers
Digital Bank Chime Offers Overdraft Protection To Its 5M Customers
September 04, 2019  |  Digital Banking

Chime, a digital banking startup based in San Francisco, said it has reached a threshold of five million customers and plans to introduce a new...

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Israeli PayTech Firms Team With Visa’s Tel Aviv Innovation Center
Israeli PayTech Firms Team With Visa’s Tel Aviv Innovation Center
September 04, 2019  |  Innovation

Tel Aviv’s new Visa Innovation Center is teaming up with three Israeli payment technology startups to offer more payment solutions, Reuters reported on Wednesday (Sept....

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Alibaba Said To Be To Nearing $2B Deal For NetEase Kaola
Alibaba Said To Be To Nearing $2B Deal For NetEase Kaola
September 04, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Chinese eCommerce marketplace Alibaba is reportedly close to wrapping up its $2 billion acquisition of NetEase’s cross-border retail platform Kaola, according to a report in TechCrunch on Wednesday...

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Southwest Passengers Can Use Apple Pay For Flights
Southwest Passengers Can Use Apple Pay For Flights
September 04, 2019  |  Digital Payments

Travel commerce and payments firm CellPoint Digital and the airline-owned payment network UATP are in a deal with Southwest to let customers buy tickets and...

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Digital Banking Veterans Join i2c Leadership Team
Digital Banking Veterans Join i2c Leadership Team
September 04, 2019  |  Personnel

Global digital banking firm i2c Inc. is rounding out its leadership team to include four payments industry veterans, the company said in a press release...

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Rival Claims Google Funnels User Info To Advertisers
Rival Claims Google Funnels User Info To Advertisers
September 04, 2019  |  Google

Google is being accused of stealthily handing personal data to advertisers by using hidden web pages, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday (Sept. 4).  Get the...

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