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Innovators: Avoid The Siren Song Of “What’s Hot”
July 05, 2017

How to innovate successfully in payments, where as a rule, complexity reigns? According to Applause CEO Doron Reuveni, among the best approaches is to focus less on “what’s hot” and more on the ever-evolving needs of the consumer.

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Blue Apron A (Possible) Tech IPO Fizzle
June 30, 2017

Yes, Thursday was a tough day in the stock market, but Blue Apron’s flat performance is no sizzle — might this be a fizzly line in the sand for tech IPOs? In the meantime, and elsewhere in the land of Sizzle/Fizzle, cash continues to shine, pouring...

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Developing A Healthy Online Business
June 29, 2017

When it comes to pumping up sales, strategically infused tech can be downright performance-enhancing. In the latest PYMNTS.com Developer Tracker™, powered by Vantiv, Ben Brown at technology-powered health company NutraClick discusses how technology is strengthening the company’s business and continuing to change the way consumers...

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Mitek’s CEO On Keeping The Right “Innovation Head Space”
June 27, 2017

Innovation in the tech industry moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it. In this week’s Commander in Chief series, we talk with Mitek Systems CEO James DeBello about how to keep the right...

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PayPal Sizzles, Prepaid Card Regs Fizzle and Etsy’s Workforce’s Fizzled Reduction
June 23, 2017

Another week, another collection of contenders hoping to sizzle. Some — like PayPal, Amazon and Lyft — managed to do so. Others — like grocery stores and the legalized cannabis industry — had a slightly more fizzly feel about them. But the most Fizzly feeling of all...

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How To Feed The Fraud Fighting Machine
June 22, 2017

How do machines learn to learn? In Episode Three of PYMNTS’ machine learning podcast, Socure CEO Sunil Madhu and PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster get technical as they explore the methods and processes that are making machines progressively smarter. In Episode Two, Madhu and Webster talked...

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The IoT Sizzle, Wells Fargo Fizzles (Again) And Bitcoin — Does Some Of Both
June 16, 2017

The IoT continued its 0-6000 march this week, while Wells Fargo found yet another way to draw a class action law suit. And bitcoin was up. Till it was down. Can anyone predict what's next?

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Meet The Identity Verification Robot
June 08, 2017

If the robot army is going to take over, identity verification might be one field humans should let them have. Socure’s artificial intelligence and machine learning tools can comb data for patterns faster and more accurately than humans to pick out synthetic or fake IDs...

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Online Fraud Detection Sizzles, iPhone Shares Fizzle — And Some Upbeat Economic News
June 02, 2017

Sizzle Online fraud falls — a LOT: Contrary to popular opinion — and perhaps contrary even to logic — the fraud fight has given a round to the good guys, even if the battle is far from over. Online fraud is down 34 percent, overall, at...