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Intelligence of ThingsABB On How Smart Cities Can Emerge Stronger Out Of The Pandemic
Experts think that far from a bad economy slowing down smart-city investments, the need to prepare for the next crisis will promote...
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Intelligence of ThingsSmart Cities Can Emerge Stronger From The Pandemic
There is scarcely an aspect of life that has not been thoroughly disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis has also dramatically...
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Internet of ThingsWhy Securing The IoT Is The Next Frontier For ISPs
Indispensable but interchangeable. Such is the problem of modern ISPs – the telcos, cable companies and satellite providers. They provide the fundamental infrastructure that...
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InvestmentsSentinelOne Picks Up $200M In Funding To Expand AI Cyber Platform
SentinelOne, which provides monitoring and security services for laptops and any kind of device connected to a network, has picked up a...
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Intelligence of ThingsHow Cisco Is Building The Smart Cities Of The Future
The global smart city market is set to reach $252 billion by 2025. To keep smart city initiatives secure, there’s a growing...
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Intelligence of ThingsCisco On The Future Of Safe And Smart Cities
With some analysts projecting a trillion IoT-enabled devices to be in use around the world by 2035, defending the IoT ecosystem is becoming...
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Internet of ThingsMastercard: Why A Truly Connected Economy Needs A New Security Paradigm
Flash back a few years and everyone had one or maybe two connected devices. There were the smartphones we all had, with...
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VISAVisa: Road-Tripping Into Connected Commerce’s Future
It wasn’t long ago that the measure of a car or truck revolved around such things as the punch and pull of...
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Intelligence of ThingsWhy An API May Be The Ticket To Solving Public Transit’s Cash Flow Jam
There will be approximately 25 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-enabled devices in use by the end of 2021, and many of these...
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Merchant InnovationP&G Enters The Connected Device Market
Product giant Procter & Gamble made its first appearance in 2019 at the annual Consumer Electronic Services showcase in Las Vegas. It...
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InnovationFour Payments Ideas That Had A Breakout 2019
Ignition of a new technology or idea in payments and commerce is always something of a tricky balancing act because consumers need...
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Payment Methods12 Ways Consumers Will Pay (And Be Paid) In 2020
Past is prologue. For the annual holiday exercise at PYMNTS (describing the 12 main or most exciting ways to pay in 2019),...
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Payments InnovationWhy Voice And Smart Homes Will Be Even Bigger In The 2020s
We are not exactly Nostradamus here at PYMNTS, but we do have a good view into the future as it will play...
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Today In DataMonetizing An Increasingly Connected World
The universe of smart devices and connected things is undeniably growing by the day – name a common household item and there...
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Intelligence of ThingsBlackBerry On 5G And The IoT Security Problems That Must Be Fixed
The promises of 5G include faster connectivity and more opportunity for Intelligence of Things (IoT) providers, but security threats from unregistered IoT...
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Intelligence of ThingsNEW REPORT: With 5G Anticipation Building, Security Threats Loom
The 5G network is rapidly being deployed in markets around the world, and the advance of the network could mean profound changes...
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NewsREPORT: How Consumers Want To Connect To Pay
Consumers have a bad case of app fatigue. There was a time when consumers were eager to download and experiment with apps...
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Payment MethodsA Day In The Life Of The Bridge Millennial
After three years of intensive research into the connected shopping habits of more than 5,000 U.S. consumers, PYMNTS published its third annual...
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InvestmentsParticle Lands $40M To Become ‘All-In-One’ Solution For IoT Devices
Internet of Things (IoT) platform Particle announced that it has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures and...
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Today In DataHow Connected Devices Are Changing Retail And Commerce
The share of consumers who own voice-activated devices has doubled as of 2017, with more of them using those devices to make purchases, listen...
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Voice ActivationWhy Voice Is Connected Commerce’s Killer App
Consumers have experienced the convenience of shopping with their voices, and they cannot get enough. The share of consumers who own voice-activated...
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InvestmentsCybersecurity Firm Firedome Lands $10M To Expand Into Business Protection
Firedome, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round with investment from...
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Today In DataConnected Devices And Everyday Purchasing Experiences
The physical and digital worlds are converging, as consumers own and use connected devices more than ever before. These technologies provide consumers...
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RetailHow Consumers Are Upping Their Connected Device Usage
Increasingly, the physical and digital worlds are converging. Consumers own and use connected devices more than ever before, while brick-and-mortar retail is...
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Internet of ThingsSmart Rosary Beads And Other Ways Churches Are Building Their Digital Flock
According to data released by Pew this week, America’s churches have an attendance problem. In a telephone survey conducted between this year and...
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Intelligence of ThingsBringing Autonomous Smart Shuttles To the Masses
There will be 41.6 billion Internet of Things (IoT)-connected devices around the world by 2025. Consumers and businesses have increasingly employed the...
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RetailHow Voice Will Capture The Connected Commerce Frontier
A massive sea change has happened in the world of retail – albeit so subtly and swiftly that most consumers probably never...
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Today In DataConnected Consumers And The Future Of Commerce
Connected devices are contextualizing commerce for consumers as they go about their daily lives, and bridge millennials provide profound insights into the future of connected commerce. In subscriptions, it seems MoviePass has...
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Restaurant innovationDeep Dive: QSRs Find Their Voice
More than one-quarter of all U.S. consumers who own voice-activated devices have used them to order food. These consumers commonly rely on...
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Payments InnovationNew Report: How Consumers Use Connected Devices To Shop And Pay
Voice is connected commerce’s killer app. That is just one of five critical findings highlighted in How We Will Pay 2019, a PYMNTS, Visa collaboration...
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Restaurant innovationHow Domino’s Works To Deliver On Customer Loyalty
An unsatisfying restaurant ordering experience can turn long-term customers into last-time patrons. So how can restaurants know which tech and services will...
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Today In DataThe Future Of Fitness With Connected Devices And IoT
Peloton combines its own hardware, software and subscription model in a bid to win over fitness-minded consumers – an effort that could shed light...
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Intelligence of ThingsiRobot On Cleaning Up Smart Home Security
With more than 8.6 billion connected devices in use worldwide, the appetite for IoT is only growing, with the technology being put...
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InnovationCan Elon Musk Turn The Human Brain Into A Connected Device?
It can never be said that Elon Musk has a problem thinking big. That can be seen from his early days as one...
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Intelligence of ThingsHow The Z-Wave Alliance Is Balancing IoT Interoperability And Security
States like California and New York are now regulating connected device security to give consumers much-needed protections. But state-by-state piecemeal legislation can...
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Intelligence of ThingsThe Case For Federal IoT Regulations
Smart technology is unlocking supply chain efficiencies, providing emergency alerts and much more. But despite intelligence of things (IoT) solutions being put...
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InternationalChina Surpasses US In Smart Speaker Shipments
China has surpassed the United States to lead the smart speaker market. According to new data from Canalys, China’s smart speaker shipments...
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Mobile CommerceWallets Versus Stored Credentials: How Consumers Shop And Pay With Smartphones
Mobile commerce might just be the key to saving brick-and-mortar stores. Consumers use their smartphones to shop for everything, everywhere – including...
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Intelligence of ThingsHow Bonbouton’s Connected Insoles Track Health And Keep Data Secure
From fitness bands to heart rate monitors, consumers have a seemingly endless number of healthcare trackers from which to choose, but their...
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Intelligence of ThingsCan Regulating Wearables Protect Data Privacy?
The Intelligence of Things (IoT) has become a fixture of everyday life, with more than 14 billion connected devices expected to be...
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Intelligence of ThingsNew IoT Security Bill Exposes Rising Data Protection, Safety Concerns
Approximately 20 billion IoT-enabled devices will be connected by 2020. These items are fast, handle an increasingly large amount of personal and...
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Intelligence of ThingsThe Move To Regulate IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) has firmly taken hold, with new applications — focusing on the support of consumer, business and industrial...
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Today In DataThe Next Frontier In Connecting Across Channels
It might be a bit of a cliché to note that we live in an increasingly connected world – though given that...
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Intelligence of Things‘Alexa — Is My Data Secure On Connected Devices?’
By 2020, there will be an estimated 26 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-connected devices active around the world. As the IoT market...
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Intelligence of ThingsHow Autonomous Cars Will Upend The Grocery Industry
From connected cars to smart ovens, the Intelligence of Things (IoT) ecosystem is projected to grow into every area of consumer life...
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Security & FraudComcast Launches AI-Powered Cybersecurity Service
Comcast is releasing an artificial intelligence-powered service that will monitor, block and tell customers about online threats to devices connected to home...
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Today In DataToday In Data: The Transforming World Of 2019
The world of 2019 is quickly gearing up to become quite a different place than the year we just left behind. Rules...
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Security & FraudHackers Exploit Google Chromecast Bug
Despite being warned years ago about a bug in its Chromecast media streaming stick, Google has yet to fix it and hackers...
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RegulationDeep Dive: The Costs, Complexities Of Managing Consumer Data
These days, consumers are almost always walking around with at least one, if not more, connected device. Whether they’re smartphones, tablets, wearables...
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Payments InnovationDid Payments 2018 Predictions Come True?
In about two weeks, 2018 will be one for the history books. And from a payments and commerce perspective, it really has...
