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2.1KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Ripple Tapped By CIMB For Southeast Asia DLT Tech; Bitcoin Cash’s Hard Fork Goes Live
CIMB, a banking group that operates in countries such as Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand, has inked a deal with Ripple in order...
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3.2KMerchant InnovationMicrosoft Signs Deal With Gap For Core Computing
To provide another retailer with its core computing needs, Microsoft has reportedly inked a five-year deal with Gap. The size of the...
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1.5KArtificial IntelligenceAmazon Launches Alexa App For Windows 10 PCs
Amazon on Thursday (Nov. 8) launched an Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs, enabling PC owners to use voice commands to get...
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1.7KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft, Interswitch Introduce Blockchain Trade Finance In Nigeria
Microsoft is partnering with pan-African digital payments and commerce firm Interswitch Group to develop a blockchain-powered supply chain finance solution for small...
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1.7KFacebookTim Berners-Lee: Google, Facebook Might Need To Be Broken Up
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has warned that technology giants like Facebook and Google are now so dominant that...
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5.3KSafety and SecurityMicrosoft CEO: Data Privacy Is A ‘Human Right’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently called data privacy a “human right,” urging tech companies to do all they could to protect users...
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3.7KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMicrosoft, Nasdaq Pair On Blockchain Initiative
Microsoft is reportedly partnering with Nasdaq on blockchain, in which its Azure blockchain services will integrate with Nasdaq’s Financial Framework. According to a report...
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3.1KInvestmentsMicrosoft Pulls Ahead Of Amazon As Second-Most Valuable Tech Firm
Tech stocks – they used to feel like they were getting whipsawed. Now, they just feel like they go in one direction …...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft Beats On FY Q1 Despite Azure Slowdown
Microsoft surpassed analysts’ expectations for growth in the first quarter of the fiscal year as it posted its earnings Wednesday evening (Oct....
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2.5KGoogleGoogle To Charge Hardware Companies To Use Its Apps To Comply With EU
Alphabet’s Google is gearing up to charge hardware companies as much as $40 per device to use its mobile apps as part...
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2.6KB2B PaymentsInvoice Fraud Hits Microsoft?
Invoice fraud — changing details so that money is routed to fraudsters’ bank accounts — may have hit Microsoft through one of...
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3.0KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft Debuts Expense Management App
Microsoft is rolling out a new corporate expense management solution designed for iOS devices, the company announced on Thursday (Oct. 18). Reports...
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6.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Loses $18M, Microsoft Uses Blockchain To Give Consumers More Control Over Personal Data
Bitcoin was hit with an $18 billion market loss in just three days. CNBC reported that the digital currency stock price fell...
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2.1KRidesharingMicrosoft Invests In Grab; The Two Form Strategic Alliance
Microsoft and Grab, the on-demand transportation, mobile payments, and online-to-offline services platform in Southeast Asia, announced Monday (October 9) a strategic partnership...
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1.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMicrosoft To Get Nod From EU For Its $7.5B GitHub Buy
Microsoft, the software giant, is expected to win antitrust approval for its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub, the coding website. Reuters, citing...
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3.1KSecurity & FraudPolice Get More Authority To Inspect Companies’ IT In China
Chinese authorities are getting more power to inspect the information technology, or IT, of companies and access property information and business data as...
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6.4KBlockchainBlockchain Patent Filings Spike
The race for blockchain patents is on, with firms in China and the US making headlines. We get some insight about the...
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1.8KGoogleGoogle Provides EU With Second Shopping Report
Google has handed over a second report to European Union (EU) antitrust regulators, detailing its proposal to allow more shopping rivals to...
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5.4KB2B PaymentsAT&T Delves Into Enterprise Blockchain With IBM, Microsoft
Telecommunications conglomerate AT&T is diving into the world of enterprise blockchain with a new suite of services for corporates, a result of...
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4.6KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: AT&T Unveils Blockchain Suite; Ripple Expands Social Giving By $25M
Ripple is expanding its social impact program, dubbed Ripple for Good, and will focus its efforts on education and financial inclusion, the...
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4.4KSubscription CommerceNEW REPORT: With Canvas, Ford Test Drives Auto Rental Subscriptions
Subscription fatigue is one of the biggest challenges merchants must conquer if they want to ensure longevity. In recent weeks, several subscription-based...
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2.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMicrosoft, Adobe, SAP Form Open Data Initiative Partnership
Adobe, Microsoft and SAP announced on Monday (Sept. 24) the introduction of the Open Data Initiative at the Microsoft Ignite conference being...
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1.9KRegulationAmazon And Google Face New European Problems
European regulators this week continued to show their love, respect and admiration for U.S.-based tech and eCommerce firms, removing hurdles that might...
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4.8KSecurity & FraudTRENDING: Solving Banking’s Security-Convenience Conundrum
Call it a Sophie’s Choice for the modern banking industry. Should banks and financial institutions (FIs) focus more on giving consumers the...
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2.6KArtificial IntelligenceTech Giants See AI As China Strategy
As U.S. technology giants deal with strict censorship rules in China — and the threat of a trade war — some are turning to...
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9.0KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Tezos Launches Main Network, WannaCry Still Used To Mine Crypto
Samsung has revealed that South Korea’s customs authority has agreed to use the company’s Nexledger blockchain tech for its decentralized customs clearance...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsMastercard 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:...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsMastercard 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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2.1KFraud AttackGoogle 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...
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2.5KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft 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...
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3.3KDataData 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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7.4KPayments InnovationOnline 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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1.6KVoice ActivationJohnson 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...
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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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1.9KNewsFive 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...
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2.2KSecurity & FraudHyas 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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1.9KBlockchainBlockchain 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...
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2.3KInvestmentsBlueVine 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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2.0KAppleApple, 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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2.6KBlockchainBlockchain 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...
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2.3KInnovationCan 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...
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2.6KSecurity & FraudHackers 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...
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2.7KNewsFive 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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3.0KSecurity & FraudMicrosoft 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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3.6KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft, 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...
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2.3KNewsFive 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...
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2.3KRetailWalmart 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...
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2.2KB2B PaymentsOracle’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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1.7KSafety and SecurityReg 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...
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2.8KAmazonMicrosoft 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...
