August 11, 2016
Square Capital Wades Into New Lending Waters
Hot on the heels of favorable Q2 results, Square, with Square Capital has made a move intended to keep the good news coming. It announced yesterday a partnership with Upserve,...
August 08, 2016
Apple Buys Turi To Beef Up Its AI, Machine-Learning Reach
Artificial intelligence is getting a lot more notice from the technology heavy hitters, with Apple reportedly acquiring Turi, the machine-learning and artificial intelligence startup. According to a report, Apple spent...
August 05, 2016
The Three-Step Plan To Optimizing Mobile Revenue
There’s no question that mobile has established itself as a default channel as far as the average consumer is concerned, and the growing cottage industry of turnkey software-as-a-service startups proves...
August 05, 2016
The Enterprise Goes High-Tech (And VCs Like It)
Oracle may have grabbed headlines with its $9.3 billion takeover of NetSuite earlier this week, but another technology giant is also making big moves in its investment game. Intel Corporation’s...
August 04, 2016
IBM Schools White House On AI
The White House put out a call for info on the practical applications of artificial intelligence, and IBM has more than answered the call. The White released a formal request...
August 04, 2016
Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App...
The latest news on mobile payments shows that the big banks are wanting in on the mobile wallet race, but are they already too far back in the pack? Meanwhile,...
August 03, 2016
Can AI Save eBay?
EBay was one of the fledgling internet companies at the center of the dot-com boom of the mid-to-late 1990s, and the online marketplace has outlasted more than its fair share...
July 28, 2016
Allset Facebook Chatbot Simplifies Takeout And Dining Out
Facebook Messenger is looking to do more than just help users communicate with friends. With the help of dining app Allset, a new Facebook Messenger chatbot will be able to...
July 27, 2016
Sage Debuts Bot To Kill The Spreadsheet
Manual data entry into spreadsheets is an outdated process for small business accounting and financial management, yet remains commonplace. SME accounting firm Sage looks to reduce the use of spreadsheets,...
Generative AI’s use in the telecommunications industry is increasing, with 87% of telecom executives seeing its potential to enhance customer relations and experience, but 68% of telecoms also admit they are insufficiently addressing the risks associated with the technology. The latest edition of the “Generative AI Tracker®,” a collaboration with AI-ID, examines why three-quarters of telecoms see a need to do more to combat AI fraudsters, underscoring the tension between innovation and robust security.
Forty-six percent of FIs say the fraud risks of providing open banking outweigh the benefits, but the share of skeptics rises to 57% among FIs that experienced increased fraud. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 200 FI execs, “How Fraud Fears Impact FIs’ Adoption of Faster Payment Solutions,” a collaboration with Hawk AI, details why FIs are cooling toward open banking but staying the course on real-time payments.