(source: business.gov.au)
Safety is becoming a profitable point of engagement for connected cars. With the National Automobile Dealers Association show coming up this weekend, companies are working on some of the nuances involved in driving and servicing autonomous or manually driven vehicles as they integrate more digital...
Biometric VeinID platform Fingopay announced that it is launching an Open Banking retail pilot with Reflow, a payments firm. The partnership has allowed the companies to create a bank-to-bank, face-to-face VeinID payment, according to Fingopay, enabling customers to make payments with just the swipe of...
Think Super Bowl for cars. This weekend marks the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) show in Las Vegas. While the product focus will be on sustainability, the retail focus will be on a slew of innovations around connected cars and connecting the people who drive...
The New Zealand government has cleared the way for Wisk — a joint air company between Boeing and Kitty Hawk — to begin a trial run of its air taxi fleet, reports said. New Zealand’s aviation authority, however, still needs to approve Wisk’s Cora aircraft. Once the...
Uber may soon be able to put its self-driving vehicles back on California roads after several years, with the issuance of a new permit, according to reports. The company had to scale back its autonomous vehicle program following an incident in Arizona where a pedestrian...
FinTechs are keeping an eye on emerging technologies at the beginning of the year — and predicting how they will impact business-to-business (B2B) payments in 2020. AvidXchange CEO and Co-Founder Michael Praeger, in one case, told PYMNTS that “AI [artificial intelligence] and machine learning have already made...
Remember that old term “banker’s hours?” That term, which fairly or unfairly suggested that banks were centers of slow-moving progress and relatively easy professional work, is long gone. Indeed, banks represent a significant and necessarily vital part of the massive changes taking place all around...
For at least the last five years — futurists and smart technology boosters have been touting the inevitable rise of the smart city. The smart city’s biggest fans predict that living in a fully integrated connected environment will change how we commute, how we shop, how we pay our...
For certain consumers, say “Atari” and some fond — or at least semi-fond — memories will start sparking. Warm remembrances will flow of the then-relatively advanced Atari 2600 video game console under the Christmas tree during the early years of the Reagan administration. Campy laughter might...