After financial startup Loot reportedly went into administration in May, Loot Founder Ollie Purdue is reportedly becoming a part of a digital bank being developed by RBS-owned Natwest called Bó. Purdue is said to lead product development for the brand and become chief product officer,...
With U.S. export blacklisting along with other actions against Huawei Technologies Co., Founder Ren Zhengfei expects revenue to be roughly $100 billion this year — down from last year’s approximately $107 billion. Zhengfei had previously targeted $125 billion for revenue this year, The Wall Street...
The smart technology field continues to be hampered by security issues even as solutions in the space are put to use in many cases. In pet technology news, Pawscout is helping owners find their wayward pets with a Bluetooth-enabled tag as pet retail becomes a...
The wonders of AI and learning algorithms are often touted at length in the payments and commerce industry. With the transformative power of smart machines, the pitch goes, commerce can be faster, safer, smoother, more individualized and easier for everyone involved. Get the Full Story...
In the farm-to-table space, chefs (and consumers) might find it challenging to source local produce as producers may typically only supply one type of product. There might be one producer that grows a certain type of vegetable, while another company might bake bread. One producer...
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To bring autonomous pizza delivery to Houston, Domino’s Pizza and robotics company Nuro are teaming up to use a custom unmanned vehicle dubbed R2 later in 2019. The fleet from Nuro will serve certain Domino’s customers in Houston who place their orders online, the company...
Sometimes there are two approaches to the same problem in FinTech: EMVCo’s recently released EMV Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) Specification version 1.0 promises to enable many more seamless retail transactions, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Payment Request application programming interface (API) aims to...
Walmart is making the latest entry into the grocery delivery wars — now an active battleground between Walmart, Amazon and Target for who can get the groceries to consumers door, fastest and for the least money. Walmart’s latest offering is “Delivery Unlimited” subscription, which will offer...
