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4.7KArtificial IntelligenceOracle Rolls Out AI For Customer Experience Cloud Suite
Oracle, the software company, is getting into the artificial intelligence market, announcing a bunch of AI-focused capabilities for its Customer Experience Cloud...
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4.5KPayment MethodsDave, AI App, Aims To Fight Costly Overdraft Fees In The US
A new artificial intelligence–based app Dave, launched Tuesday (April 25) aiming to save consumers for costly overdraft fees. According to a report...
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7.1KSecurity & FraudIs AI The Ultimate Fraud Fighting Machine?
Machine learning may be hip and cool, but can it hip check fraudster trolls back to Middle Earth? April’s Digital Identity Tracker™...
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2.4KInternationalTechnology, Tourism Is Making Icelandic Language Obsolete
The Icelandic language, which many in the country hold as a source of identity and pride, is being undermined by the widespread...
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9.9KSecurity & FraudNew Report: Deconstructing Fraud With Machine Learning
Using machine learning to fight fraud may just be starting to see its day in the sun, but if industry trends are...
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4.5KRetailLiveWorld Enables Human + Chatbot Cooperation
If the recent news from Facebook’s F8 developer conference is any indication, the future of online communication between businesses and consumers will...
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4.2KAmazonAmazon Sets Lex (The Tech Behind Alexa) Loose
Alexa’s been in the spotlight for awhile now as Amazon’s darling voice-activated AI assistant. But the deep learning technologies behind the voice...
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4.5KRetailRue21, mode.ai Launch Virtual Stylists Via Facebook Messenger
Facebook’s annual developer conference F8 is seeing its fair share of chatbot integration announcements. Now the fashion world is taking center stage as...
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4.0KArtificial IntelligenceWeb Financial Group Brings AI To Digital Wealth Platforms
Web Financial Group, a data-driven managed service solutions provider, and Selerity, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered contextual search and automation company, announced Wednesday...
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2.8KAmazon TechnologyAmazon Helps The World Build Better Bots
The race to voice-activated software is on. This week, Amazon announced it’s rolling out the technology behind its voice assistant Alexa. With this...
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2.8KChatbotsPegasystem Aims To Evolve Chatbots With Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant
Pegasystems, the software company, announced Tuesday (April 18) the launch of Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant, an artificial intelligence-powered (AI) bot that turns...
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6.7KChatbotsWells Fargo Announces Messenger Chatbot Plans
Wells Fargo recently announced plans to test a chatbot for Facebook Messenger — the latest in a recent string of payments providers...
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8.1KDigital BankingHollywood’s Newest Special Effect, Digital Banking?
Who knew King Kong and digital banking had anything in common? The Hollywood magic behind some big-name blockbusters is now powering a...
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8.0KDigital BankingNEW REPORT: How A Hollywood Special Effect Became An AI Banking Assistant
From selfie authentication to finance tools that respond to emojis to computer-generated avatars that look and act like real people, new technological...
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4.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsBaidu Buys xPerception For Bigger AI Push
Baidu, the Chinese Internet company, has inked a deal to acquire xPerception, a U.S. computer vision firm, for an undisclosed sum. According...
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26.5KB2B PaymentsTranscepta Ramps Up AI In eProcurement
Transcepta, a procure-to-pay platform, is ramping up its use of artificial intelligence (AI), the company said late last week. In an announcement,...
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4.1KFacebookFacebook Uses AI To Tell Users What To Buy, How To Pay
As the IoT arena moves forward, companies will be using more of that collected data to provide a more tailored experience. Facebook’s...
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3.5KRetailVoice-Activated Tracker: Playing Catch-Up
The battle of the voice-activated giants will soon expand to the international stage. Google just recently announced that its smart speaker hardware...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsTradeshift Debuts Ada, Its B2B Virtual Assistant
B2B eCommerce platform Tradeshift has debuted Ada, an artificial intelligence solution to help businesses collaborate with each other. Reports Wednesday (March 29) said...
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4.0KPayment MethodsSquare Now In UK, To Use UK As A Launch Pad For European Expansion
Square, Jack Dorsey’s payment company, is now available in the U.K. as of Tuesday (March 28), reported CNBC. According to a report...
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3.7KFraud AttackHow Signifyd Wants To Keep The Right Thing On Retailers’ Plates
While retailers of late have worked hard to broaden the range of experiences they offer, there are some things that no reasonable...
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4.3KArtificial IntelligenceElon Musk’s Neuralink Aims To Augment The Brain To Keep Pace With AI
Elon Musk has launched another new company, Neuralink, which focuses on developing the capabilities of the brain through technological augmentation so that...
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3.7KArtificial IntelligenceSynechron Launches 14 AI Accelerators For Financial Services Mkt
Synechron, the global financial services consulting and technology company, announced Thursday (March 23) the launch of “Neo,” a set of artificial intelligence...
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7.2KB2B PaymentsSAP Ariba Pulls Bot Hype Into Procurement
B2B FinTech is taking advantage of bot technology across use-cases, from SME banking to accounting. SAP Ariba has just become the latest...
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3.4KInvestmentsChinese Investment In Neurala, Others, Worries US
Boston-based artificial intelligence startup Neurala has created a deep learning neural networks platform and software. While Neurala has seen some funding success,...
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3.5KChatbotsChatbots Bringing On Business Operations Revolution?
Whether someone is buying a product, attending a concert or renting a truck to move furniture, there’s some level of customer service...
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7.4KB2B PaymentsArtificial Intelligence Takes On Risk Of Invoice Non-Payments
Fear is holding back small businesses from trading internationally, according to a report from HSBC late last year. Specifically, a lack of...
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2.5KChatbots And CommerceChatbot Tracker: Samsung Unveils AI Retail Chatbot At MWC
Today’s connected universe has seen its fair share of innovative technologies to help make consumers’ lives easier. From on-demand car rides with...
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3.0KArtificial IntelligenceKasisto Bumps Up Conversational AI
In the chatbot space, there are a myriad of companies developing new ways to seamlessly integrate bots or virtual assistants into customer...
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2.9KArtificial IntelligenceIBM, Salesforce To Share AI
IBM and Salesforce announced their global strategic partnership on Monday (March 6), allowing both companies to deliver joint solutions leveraging artificial intelligence (AI)....
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3.5KAmazonAmazon’s Alexa University Sandbox
Amazon is extending its push to have third-party developers work on Alexa skills in the classroom. The online retail giant recently told Reuters...
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5.8KNewsZoho CRM Unveils Its New Tool – Say Hello to Zia AI
This week, Zoho launched its new AI CRM sales tool, Zia. The Zoho CRM tool uses artificial intelligence to enhance the sales...
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2.3KAmazonAmazon Alexa Hits 10,000 Skills
Time sure does fly. Last June, consumers’ minds were blown when Alexa reached 1,000 unique skills. If they could see us now…...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsAlexa Authentication A Natural Fit For SME Banking
The way FinTech adoption goes, it’s usually the consumers who first jump onto a new technology, and corporate users typically follow later....
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4.5KRetailViSenze Sees Visual Search Growth In eCommerce
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important for eCommerce companies, according to new data from ViSenze. AI technology startup ViSenze creates digital...
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Zuckerberg Manifesto Looks At Facebook’s Future
The public letter released by Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg on his own Facebook account late last week to the company’s community at...
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5.5KInvestmentsSantander’s VC Arm InnoVentures Invests In Two AI Companies
Banco Santander, the Spanish lender, has thrown its money into two artificial intelligence companies in an effort on the part of the...
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8.1KBankingWells Fargo Overhauls Payments, Virtual Solutions And Innovation Unit To Enhance Payment Efforts
Wells Fargo announced Friday (Feb. 10) it has overhauled its Payments, Virtual Solutions and Innovation Group, with the new structure focused on...
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1.8KInnovationSoundHound Gets $75M To Build AI Voice Systems
SoundHound, the music recognition app, has raised $75 million, which it will use to build artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can help...
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7.1KArtificial IntelligenceHow Clarifai Envisions Commerce — Literally
Industries around the world have caught AI fever. Developers around the world have made more ways than ever for the technology to...
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7.2KB2B PaymentsSage Pegs Chatbots As The Future Of SME Accounting
The chatbot revolution is in full force, but Sage said it is the first to pull cloud-based SME accounting into the trend....
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4.8KInvestmentsAI Platform By Conversica Automates Business Conversations
Investment activity picked up for the first full week of the new year as measured against the last week of December, logging...
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2.9KArtificial IntelligenceNew $27M Fund Is Focused On Driving AI Market
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, are among a group of investors that have created a $27...
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Mighty AI Lands $14M Investment And Changes Name
If chatbots are slated to help people, how do they know what to ask or how to respond? And where does all...
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2.9KArtificial IntelligenceAI To Bring Economic Growth But Could Hurt Certain Jobs
AI brings a lot of promise and will become essential to the growth of the U.S. in the future, but without improvements in...
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4.5KArtificial IntelligenceWill AI Be Starbucks’ Secret Weapon To Driving Sales And Growth?
Starbucks is using AI to reach its customers in new ways and possibly increase its growth and boost sales in the process. Earlier...
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13.6KInvestmentsAI Innovator Conversica Raises $34 Million In Series B
Silicon Valley adjacent AI innovator Conversica recently announced it had raised $34 million in a Series B venture capital funding round led by Providence Strategic...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsXero’s Faith Lands In Artificial Intelligence
SME accounting platform Xero has big hopes for artificial intelligence. A new report by IT-Online featured Xero South Africa Head of Accounting Colin Timmis,...
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6.6KB2B PaymentsDisrupting The AR Department With Machine Learning
When a company doesn’t pay a supplier when it’s supposed to, it can be next to impossible to collect that money. Accounts...
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3.1KArtificial IntelligenceResolver To Use AI To Help Consumers Complain
Resolver, the U.K. startup that has created tools to help consumers complain and track the progress of their complaint, has raised £2.8...
