September 08, 2015
Apple’s AI Hiring Surge
As the race to create smarter devices moves along, the Apple-Google rivalry is going to heat up, too. And to stay ahead of the curve, a report from Reuters indicates...
August 28, 2015
B2B Investment Tracker, Aug. 21-28
According to some market analysts, there is a venture capitalist drought. Reports from the Los Angeles Times on Thursday (Aug. 27) said that an unstable market is likely to hamper...
August 10, 2015
Plate iQ And Predicting With Paper
YC-backed Plate iQ thinks they have a way the smartphone can be leveraged against the ever-growing pile of supplier invoices restaurateurs face week in and week out. “[Restaurants] have this huge...
August 06, 2015
Snapdeal To Invest $100M In New Technologies
India’s eCommerce marketplace Snapdeal announced plans yesterday (Aug. 5) to make a significant investment of about $100 million in its Multimedia Research Lab in Bangalore over the next three years.
August 05, 2015
Digitally Empowering Today’s Business Traveler
Business travel just isn’t what it used to be, with employees eager to take on more control of their travel arrangements through self-service tools. But how can companies balance trusting...
August 03, 2015
Google Eyes The Enterprise For Google Glass
Google Glass is back, but this time no skydivers came down bearing it. A new curved rectangle version of the Glass with a “button-and-hinge system” that can be used with...
July 30, 2015
Rakuten’s Research Centers Focused On Mobile
Japanese eCommerce giant Rakuten has opened two new research branches of the Rakuten Institute of Technology (RIT) in Boston and Singapore to spearhead its efforts in mobile and social innovation as...
July 23, 2015
Darktrace’s VC Funding Pushes Value To $100M
Darktrace, the cybersecurity firm that counts as one of its key financial supporters the former head of Autonomy, Mike Lynch, has raised $22.5 million from Summit Partners, a venture capital...
July 16, 2015
ZestFinance To Power Near-Prime Consumer Loan Market
ZestFinance, the financial technology company with a focus on credit scoring, said Wednesday (July 15) that it is moving into the near-prime consumer loan market. According to a Wednesday release...
With more than two-thirds of CFOs citing payment delays as a problem for their firms in the last six months, nine in 10 companies wish to expand their investment in AR automation to accelerate order processing, reduce invoicing errors and expedite payments. In the “Working Capital Tracker®,” a collaboration with Billtrust, PYMNTS Intelligence explains why the demand for AR automation is growing and what’s at stake for companies that opt out of this trend.
Although authorized party fraud accounts for only 37% of FIs’ fraud losses in dollars, these types of attacks are the most likely to impact customer satisfaction and retention — something FIs cannot overlook. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 29-page report, “Leveraging AI and ML to Thwart Scammers,” a collaboration with Hawk, contains 8 charts of proprietary data examining the role of ML and AI to help keep fraudsters from getting the upper hand