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4.4KRetailViSenze 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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5.4KInvestmentsSantander’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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8.0KBankingWells 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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1.7KInnovationSoundHound 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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7.0KArtificial 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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7.1KB2B 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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4.6KInvestmentsAI 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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2.8KArtificial 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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13.4KInvestmentsAI 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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4.9KB2B 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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6.5KB2B 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...
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5.3KChatbotsBank of America Launches Erica, Its Virtual Assistant
Bank of America is gearing up to launch a virtual assistant named Erica, which will rely on artificial intelligence to provide tips...
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9.8KRetailArtificial Intelligence In Retail Is Already Here
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more prevalent in almost every facet of people’s day-to-day lives, from its ability to defeat...
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3.2KSecurity & FraudSay Hello To Google’s AI-Powered Internet Justice League
Google is waging war on internet trolls. A small subsidiary of the tech giant, called Jigsaw, is looking to take an approach...
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3.0KInvestmentsViSenze Completes $10.5 Million Round Of Venture Funding
ViSenze, the artificial intelligence company that develops visual technology for eCommerce and digital businesses, announced on Friday (Sept. 16) it has completed a...
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4.3KArtificial IntelligenceBazillion Beings Fuels The Bot-Driven World
Bazillion Beings, a creator of bots driven by artificial technology, is out to prove that bots can actually replace simple applications. Through...
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7.1KB2B PaymentsXero Jumps In On Facebook Chatbot Trend
SME accounting company Xero continues on with its streak of announcements at its Xerocon South event. The latest is a bot that integrates...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsSaving eProcurement Complexity For The Back End
When procurement software startup Vroozi announced last month that it secured $4 million in venture capital, the company said it would use...
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4.6KMerchant InnovationMeet Revuze, The Startup Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Brand Management
Let’s face it, data analysis can be a costly and time-consuming affair and can sometimes take weeks or months of scouring through...
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3.3KInvestmentsAI Startup Mad Street Den Closes Series A Round Of Funding
Artificial intelligence may still seem futuristic to many, but a startup trying to bring artificial intelligence into our daily lives has piqued...
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Partnership Goes After AI For Workplace Automation
Enterprise services firm Hexaware and smart process automation company WorkFusion are linking up to bring automated service to corporations using artificial intelligence....
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3.7KAppleApple 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...
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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...
- Retail
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...
- Mobile Commerce
Ready To Shop By Emoji?
Shopping with the help of a bot is old news at this point. Everybody has a bot. But Facebook Messenger bot Kip...
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6.7KB2B PaymentsSage 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...
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4.7KB2B PaymentsSage’s SME Accounting Chatbot Lands On Facebook Messenger
Small business accounting firm Sage is taking a nuanced approach to its services. Reports on Wednesday (July 13) said the company is...
- Merchant Innovation
Can AI Take The Guesswork Out Of Beer Brewing?
Will the wonders of artificial intelligence ever cease? In the last decade or so, artificial intelligence has been increasing at a dramatic...
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7.9KB2B PaymentsCommercial Payments Gets Its Own Version Of Amazon Alexa
When Tradeshift wanted to enter the mid-market level, it needed to create a business payments and expense management solution with a few characteristics. It...
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7.1KSecurity & FraudBlackstone Backs Cybersecurity Startup’s $100M Round
Cylance, a cybersecurity startup that utilizes artificial intelligence algorithms to detect and mitigate malware threats, announced on Wednesday (June 8) that it...
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6.7KInnovationGoogle’s AI Wants To Be The Brain Behind iPhone
Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) software TensorFlow wants to do the thinking for an iPhone user. The neural network software, which was launched...
- Retail
Artificial Intelligence Seeks Real Shoppers
Why is everybody so secretive about AI (artificial intelligence)? Retail companies are making acquisitions in the space right and left, but most...
- Investments
Sony Invests In AI Venture
Sony is banking on artificial intelligence as a revenue stream for the company, and it’s just taken another step toward that goal....
- eCommerce
Google Chirp To Take On Amazon Echo
It appears that a big player in the eCommerce space is looking to talk back to Alexa with a voice-activated assistant of...
- B2B Payments
Joint Venture Pumps Robotics Into Financial Services
A joint venture from VirtusaPolaris and IT consulting firm WorkFusion is looking to give the banking and financial services sector a boost...
- Acquiring
Apple Buys AI Facial Recognition Startup
Last September, reports surfaced that Apple was making a push to make its smart devices smarter and to do so was planning on...
- News
Digital Toy Maker Latest Cyberbreach Victim
With all eyes on “smart toys” this holiday season and questions in the air around the potential risk to consumers who opt...
- Controversial
The Toys Are Listening (And Marketing)
Toys talking to kids? Not really a new thing. Toys taking information that kids speak to them, uploading it to a database...
- Merchant Innovation
Finovate Fall 2015 Recap: How FinTech Companies Pitch Innovation
In March 2015 at Innovation Project, MPD CEO Karen Webster shared — backed by myriad examples from payments leaders — that the payments,...
