Microsoft

Mastercard Track And The Streamlined B2B Onboarding Process

Getting suppliers onboarded takes a while – about 16 days, in fact, due in large part to manual processes. Other inefficiencies abound:...

Mastercard Track Fast-Tracks Supplier Vetting, Onboarding

It takes an average of 16 friction-filled, often paper-intensive days for a buyer to onboard a supplier. Mastercard and Microsoft have teamed...

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Fraud Attack

Google Weeds Out Tech Support Scam Artists

Google is trying to stop scammers who advertise fake technical support on its platform. According to a report in the Wall Street...

Microsoft Embeds AI Into New Payroll Solution

Microsoft is partnering with Ramco Systems to launch a payroll solution on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform, reports in Digit said on...

Data

Data Mining OK’ed By LinkedIn For Economics Research

Via LinkedIn, data is everywhere, at least for economists and academics. Bloomberg reported that LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) is allowing access to...

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Payments Innovation

Online Platforms: Why Consumers Rule And Regulators Don’t

A few weeks from now will mark the 72nd anniversary of a federal court decision that found grocery store chain The Great Atlantic...

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Voice Activation

Johnson Controls Rolls Out Cortana-Embedded Smart Thermostat

Following on the heels of several months of delays, Johnson Controls rolled out its GLAS smart thermostat for pre-orders last week. According...

Amazon

Amazon, Microsoft Announce Public Preview Of Alexa, Cortana Integration

Amazon and Microsoft on Wednesday (Aug. 15) announced a public preview of their plans to integrate Alexa with Microsoft Cortana, a plan announced...

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Five At Five: Even Financial Gets New Funding Round

Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes Even Financial...

Security & Fraud

Hyas Notches $6.2M In Series A Round Led By Microsoft’s M12

To help identify the hackers behind cyberattacks, Hyas has notched $6.2 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Microsoft’s...

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Blockchain

Blockchain Slowdown Coming Down The Block?

All things white hot … cool down. To put it another way, might the additions of links to the blockchain be slowed...

Investments

BlueVine Adds $12M From M12 To Round Of Funding

BlueVine, the FinTech startup that recently announced a $60 million round of financing, has added $12 million to its Series E round...

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Apple

Apple, Others Face Patent Claim From Firm Over Hands-Free, Voice Operated Devices

Apple, Microsoft and Samsung are facing litigation from California-based SpeakWare that accuses the technology firms of patent infringement. The company claims the...

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Blockchain

Blockchain Finds More Commercial Uses, Telecom Among Them

The move to bring blockchain beyond cryptocurrency confines — and toward more commercial use cases — continues, with far-flung projects making headlines. In the telecom...

Innovation

Can Online Data Be Truly Portable? Industry Heavyweights Think So.

It’s easy to imagine the appeal: Transferring loyalty program data from one grocer to another, moving image data from a social media...

Security & Fraud

Hackers Increasing Sophistication With Secondary Attacks

Hackers are growing much more sophisticated; a new report shows that when incident response teams thwart an attack, they are finding another...

Five At Five: The Implications Of Google’s $5 Billion Fine

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes a deeper look at Google’s...

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Security & Fraud

Microsoft Launches Bounty Program For Digital Identity Services

Microsoft announced on Tuesday (July 17) a new program in which it will pay hackers between $500 and $100,000 if they can...

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Microsoft, KPMG Announce Next B2B Solution

WIISE, the FinTech joint venture between Microsoft and KPMG Australia, will go global in 2019, the companies announced in a press release issued...

Five At Five: IBM’s Cryptocurrency Move

Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes a digital...

Retail

Walmart Teams Up With Microsoft For Cloud Technology

Bolstering a relationship between two Amazon rivals, Walmart has reportedly inked a deal with Microsoft to leverage the tech company’s cloud capabilities. The...

Oracle’s Blockchain Service Goes Live

Oracle’s new blockchain service for the enterprise is now live, reports in Fortune said Monday (July 16). The enterprise technology conglomerate has...

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Safety and Security

Reg Tracker: National Tech Privacy, Facial Recognition Rules Loom (Perhaps)

New rules may loom for technology providers pertaining to privacy — on a national level. As reported last week by the Information Technology...

Amazon

Microsoft Calls For Regulation Of Facial Recognition Tech

About two months after civil liberties organizations demanded that Amazon stop providing governments with facial recognition services, Microsoft is asking for government...

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IPO

Blockchain Co R3 Eyes IPO

Sources are reporting that R3 — a blockchain-software company that works with big companies such as Intel, Microsoft, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo — is considering...

ANTITRUST

Antitrust Chief: Tech Dealmaking Spawns ‘Great Efficiencies’

Is a green light flashing for dealmaking in tech land, allowing large firms to easily snatch up smaller ones? There’s a verbal...

International

Copyright Revamp In EU Gets Thumbs Down From Lawmakers (For Now)

The copyright re-tooling will not be as onerous as some had feared, it seems. Reuters reported on Thursday (July 5) that lawmakers in...

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Intelligence of Things

TRENDING: Using IoT Tech To Sell 4th of July Goodies On The 5th

New efforts in the IoT space are aiming to help payment-enabled wearables and devices come to market faster, and assist grocery stores...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

In The Blockchain Race, FIs Hustle Not To Come In Last

The Bank of England caught the financial services world’s attention when its Governor, Mark Carney, spoke about the central bank’s latest initiative...

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Blockchain

Intellectual Property Paper Chase Makes Way For Smart Contracts

Paul McCartney sang: “You never give me your money. You only give me your funny paper.” The sentiment could apply to royalties...

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Marks & Spencer Teams Up With Microsoft For AI Tech

In an effort to explore artificial intelligence (AI), Britain’s Marks & Spencer Group (M&S) is collaborating with Microsoft. Through their strategic partnership,...

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Microsoft Looks To Power First Bank In Nigeria

FinTech upstarts are linking with banks, from Canada to the Philippines, to automate back office functions and streamline operations. And no less...

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Data Dive

Data Dive: Good News, Bad News And Mixed News

One of the more remarkable things about soccer – other than the amazingly massive global audience commands – is that it is...

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Five at Five: Microsoft Takes on Amazon

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today we have stories about Microsoft moving...

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Payment Methods

Microsoft To Take On Amazon In Cashierless Checkout

Microsoft wants to take Amazon.com on in the cashierless checkout market — the software giant is working on its own self-checkout technology. According...

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Microsoft, ADP Combine Business Management, HCM Data

Microsoft and human resources management company ADP are partnering for a holistic business management solution that combines financial and human capital data...

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Internet of Things

Microsoft’s Underwater Data Centers Could Power Future IoT

Everyone has heard of storing data in the cloud, but what about in the briny depths? On Wednesday (June 6), Microsoft lowered...

Microsoft To Bolster Small Businesses With First Bank of Nigeria

Microsoft is partnering with First Bank of Nigeria to provide support for small businesses in the country, reported in Nigerian outlet The...

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Apple

WWDC Boosts Apple’s Shares To Record High

Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC, helped boost the company’s shares to an all-time high on Monday (June 4). According to CNBC, the...

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Innovation

Self-Driving Vehicles: The Newest Role for Maps?

Maps were used for many things throughout the centuries. In the coming years, maps will tell self-driving cars when to turn left...

Markets

Let’s Talk About European Attitudes Toward US Tech Firms

It’s beginning to feel like two kids talking smack in a high school hallway — except, in this case, billions of dollars...

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Retail

WePay: Contextual Is The Future Of Commerce

In 10 years, no one will talk about “contextual commerce” — it’ll just be commerce. That’s what Rich Aberman, co-founder of WePay,...

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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Enters The AI Conversation With Semantic Machines Acquisition

The tech giants are racing to see who can make their artificial intelligence (AI) the least artificial and the most human-like. Now,...

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Alexa

Alexa Comes To Acer Windows 10 Laptops

Amazon is expanding uses for Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, by making it available on Microsoft Windows 10 laptops. According to news from TechCrunch,...

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Microsoft Forms Cloud Accounting Startup To Rival Xero

Microsoft is collaborating with Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and KPMG to form a new cloud accounting startup, Financial Review reported. Dubbed Wiise, the...