A federal jury has awarded headphone maker Taction a record $5.7 billion in its patent lawsuit against Apple. As Reuters reported Friday (Sept. 25), jurors found that Apple’s Taptic Engine, used in iPhones and Apple Watches to create haptic feedback, infringed on two Taction patents....
Brazilian digital bank Nubank is reportedly interested in buying U.K. FinTech Monzo. Such a deal would value Mozno at up to £10 billion ($13.2 billion), the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (Sept. 26), citing two sources familiar with the matter. Sources told the FT there...
Walmart’s CEO says the retailer has no plans to use customer data to set personalized prices. John Furner issued a letter to customers Friday (Sept. 25) arguing that such a practice would violate the company’s Every Day Low Prices (EDLP) ethos. “Prices can change,” the...
Block has joined the x402 Foundation to help advance open, agentic commerce, Steve Reis, head of product, Block Financial Platform, said in a Thursday (Sept. 24) blog post. As a member of this open standard for agentic payments, Block will bring its experience across payments and consumer products to the Foundation’s working groups,...
University Hospital at Downstate is piloting an ambient artificial intelligence (AI) scribe with 50 physicians across family medicine, internal medicine, cardiology and the emergency department. The tool has drafted notes for more than 900 patient encounters since May, Altera Digital Health said on Tuesday (Sept....
A chief financial officer can only optimize the cash they can see. An invoice arriving outside an integrated B2B environment gives finance less time and potentially less information to decide how the resulting obligation should be managed. Until recently, the inconvenience of missing or incomplete...
A $10 purchase that can wait until tomorrow is one kind of retail transaction. A $10 item that keeps a customer from finishing a repair, taking medicine or charging a device is another. Ultrafast delivery is giving retailers a way to find out what the...
Walmart plans to continue adding ways to make health and wellness products and services affordable and convenient for customers, the retailer said in a Monday (Sept. 21) press release marking the 20th anniversary of its $4 generic prescription program. “Over the past 20 years, the...
OpenAI is preparing to release its latest cybersecurity-focused model, GPT-6 Cyber, as well as a new product that helps users deploy that model, Fortune reported Thursday (Sept. 24), citing unnamed sources. The new product will enable users to access the cybersecurity model via a gateway,...