February 26, 2020Toyota has backed Chinese firm Pony.ai with a $400 million investment, according to the Financial Times.
The newest funding totals $462 million and puts a $3 billion value on the Chinese ...
February 26, 2020From a playing field that was nearly empty five years, the world of voice-activated personal assistants has filled up and rounded out rapidly on a global scale in the last ...
February 26, 2020 Restaurants are diving head first into digital innovations, such as mobile ordering and rewards programs.
These merchants have always been vulnerable to in-person fraud, including coupon or promotion scams, but digital ...
February 25, 2020Legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can both drain businesses’ time and resources and make accounts payable (AP) processes overly complicated. But, integrating ERP and AP systems can help expedite ...
February 24, 2020The mobile order-ahead market continues to expand its footprint, growing by 23 percent over the past four years and now accounting for more than 3.1 billion restaurant visits and $26.8 ...
February 20, 2020Fraud prevention and identity verification firm Kount is launching Email First Seen, a tool that serves as an indicator of email trust, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. 20).
The solution ...
February 20, 2020SentinelOne, which provides monitoring and security services for laptops and any kind of device connected to a network, has picked up a $200 million Series E funding round, the company ...
February 18, 2020In the battle against fraudsters, financial institutions (FIs) must start at the beginning – literally.
FIs are increasingly vulnerable as they race to become digital – and omnichannel – in a ...
February 17, 2020European Union industry commissioner Thierry Breton rebuked Facebook’s proposed new internet rules Monday (Feb.17), saying it was Facebook‘s responsibility to adapt to the EU and not the other way around, ...
February 17, 2020Bad actors are increasingly targeting transit companies’ loyalty programs and relying on stolen payment credentials, but tighter online authentication measures and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions can put the brakes on ...
February 14, 2020Venture capital funding focused on Software-as-a-Service tied to procurement and purchasing, as well as improving cash flow for companies as they streamline payments and supply chain visibility. Digital banking also ...
February 14, 2020 The fraud prevention race is the same as it has always been, with merchants and security companies sprinting to stay ahead of cybercriminals to keep data safe and secure. Participants ...
February 13, 2020Farming has been around for thousands of years – tens of thousands of years, perhaps, according to some estimates.
And it is a labor-intensive, resource-intensive and time-consuming endeavor. Consider the fact ...
February 12, 2020Social media has become an integral part of everyday life, with a recent study finding that there were approximately 2.77 billion social media users around the world as of 2019. ...
February 10, 2020This is easy. Hire a data scientist. Or reassign the ones you have. Give said scientist(s) a budget to lease a Tensor Flo server with Google and start parsing transaction ...
February 10, 2020Fraud prevention firm Kount is introducing the Identity Trust Global Network for the establishment of real-time identity trust using artificial intelligence (AI), Kount announced today (Feb. 10). The Boise, Idaho-based cybersecurity ...
February 10, 2020 The sharing economy has rapidly expanded in the U.S., but even the most popular innovations fall out of favor if they do not keep customers satisfied. The market’s players have ...
February 10, 2020 Biometric digital identity verification solutions are becoming more and more commonplace thanks to their implementation in everyday devices like smartphones and fitness wearables. Approximately 800 million facial recognition-equipped mobile devices ...
February 9, 2020Facebook has acquired London-based startup Scape Technologies, which is working on location-based technology that will expand GPS abilities, according to reports.
Regulatory filings show that Facebook now has control over more ...
February 3, 2020Citi Commercial Cards is introducing an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) capability at its U.S. call centers, Citi announced on Monday (Feb. 3).
Citi will harness technology from artificial intelligence (AI) firm ...
February 3, 2020 The sharing economy’s business model is straightforward: Individuals list goods and services on curated online platforms that foster pain-free connections to renters or buyers. Such transparency between buyers and sellers ...
January 30, 2020The sharing economy is undergoing a sea change due to Generation Z’s coming of age. Experts expect this generation, which heavily favors the sharing and gig economies, to account for ...
January 29, 2020Among the artificial intelligence (AI) projects Google is developing are real-time language translation, anemia detection and robotic kittens, CNBC reported Wednesday (Jan. 29).
The company hopes to launch those as well ...
January 27, 2020 Payments companies are stepping into increasingly important roles as the global payment processing solutions market is slated to hit $62.3 billion by 2024.
Such firms cannot grow safely without robust security ...
January 26, 2020The EU is looking to adopt new antitrust rules that will aim to give European companies more leeway in the market.
The new rules, described by Reuters as protectionist, will be ...
January 24, 2020Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee issued a resolution Thursday (Jan. 23) that will put rules into place to address the challenges of fast-developing artificial intelligence and automated decision-making ...
January 23, 2020Mastercard has launched a new center called the Intelligence and Cyber Centre in Vancouver, Canada, focused on speeding innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT), according ...
January 22, 2020Photographers and other creative professionals find aggregators to be extremely efficient at distributing their work, but extremely inefficient when it comes to paying them royalties when their works are used. ...
January 22, 2020 Three words are driving dramatic technological changes in the fast food space: quality, convenience and speed. QSR customers expect quality food and their preferred payment methods, and they want those ...
January 22, 2020Robotics and artificial intelligence company Berkshire Grey has raised $263 million in Series B financing to continue providing global Fortune 100 companies with retail, eCommerce and logistics fulfillment automation.
SoftBank, Khosla ...
January 22, 2020With the new IBM Policy Lab, IBM is looking to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) development in a way that is safe, but does not infringe upon the creation of new ...
January 22, 2020More than 8.2 billion chip-enabled consumer cards — credit and debit — are now in use across the world, according to EMVCo, the industry standard organization. Globally, more than 75 ...
January 21, 2020As more consumers place their food orders through digital channels, eateries are adapting to the tastes of diners who want to enjoy a restaurant meal at home. P.F. Chang’s, in one ...
January 20, 2020Microsoft President Brad Smith doesn’t agree with Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai’s backing of the EU’s call for a temporary ban on facial recognition technology, Reuters reported on Monday (Jan. ...
January 20, 2020Supplier discovery platform scoutbee has raised $60 million in a series B funding round led by Atomico, with Lakestar, Next47, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, 42CAP and Toba Capital all participating, according ...
January 20, 2020In today’s top payments news, U.K. regulators have levied $126 million in fines for data violations since mid-2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for international cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) ...
January 20, 2020 Fraud protection techniques have advanced rapidly over the past decade to keep pace with fraudsters preying on emerging weak points. Bad actors have taken full advantage of the online world’s ...
January 20, 2020In a Sunday opinion column in The Financial Times (FT), Google and Alphabet chief executive officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai wrote about the importance of having government oversight regarding artificial technology ...
January 17, 2020 The subscription eCommerce market is a favorite among consumers and businesses, growing more than 100 percent annually for the past five years. Subscription’s promises of recurring revenue streams for companies ...
January 17, 2020Not all of the nearly 15 million U.S. RV campers who rely on online vehicle marketplaces get what they pay for. Scammers can pose as RV owners and persuade legitimate ...