April Fools 2019

Corporates Turn To 365-Day Payment Terms To Manage Cash Flow
Corporates Turn To 365-Day Payment Terms To Manage Cash Flow
April 01, 2019  |  April Fools 2019

Inspired by Amazon’s new Prime offer, Amazon Day, CFOs and corporate cash managers are transforming their payables operations so that they pay suppliers on the...

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Fed’s Faster Payments Council Embraces ‘Speed Of Light’ Payments
Fed’s Faster Payments Council Embraces ‘Speed Of Light’ Payments
April 01, 2019  |  April Fools 2019

Payments has moved beyond batches to … photons.  The Fed’s faster payments council now seeks to enable the fastest payments in the universe, approaching and...

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EU’s ‘Turning It All Back’ Initiative To Embrace New, Old Tech
EU’s ‘Turning It All Back’ Initiative To Embrace New, Old Tech
April 01, 2019  |  April Fools 2019

Get ready for a commodore — the old Commodore 64, that is, a mainstay of the home computing boom of the 1980s. News from the...

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Thousand-Year-Old Japanese Firm Eyes IPO
Thousand-Year-Old Japanese Firm Eyes IPO
April 01, 2019  |  April Fools 2019

Amid the excitement for Levi Strauss’ initial public offering (IPO), Kongō Gumi is eyeing a listing on the New York Stock Exchange more than 1,000...

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Trulioo Finds New AML Market In The Ozarks
Trulioo Finds New AML Market In The Ozarks
April 01, 2019  |  April Fools 2019

To help curb money laundering, identity verification provider Trulioo announced on Monday (April 1) that it had opened an office in the Ozarks. The Vancouver-based company,...

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Google’s Attempted Re-Org By Alpha Algorithm Crashes Google’s Tech
Google’s Attempted Re-Org By Alpha Algorithm Crashes Google’s Tech
April 01, 2019  |  April Fools 2019

Around the world, billions awoke in terror this morning, April Fool’s Day 2019, when they realized that Google search wasn’t working — or, at least, wasn’t working the way...

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Microsoft Bans April Fools’ Day, Cat Videos
Microsoft Bans April Fools’ Day, Cat Videos
April 01, 2019  |  April Fools 2019

Bucking the trend of the tech industry for the last decade, Microsoft has formally decided to ban April Fools’ pranks this year. In a company-wide...

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New Search Engine Promises Total Privacy — And More Clicks
New Search Engine Promises Total Privacy — And More Clicks
April 01, 2019  |  April Fools 2019

The last couple of years have brought a consumer, political and regulatory backlash against the privacy and data-sharing practices of big tech and social media...

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