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1.7KRetailRIP Windows Phone
Goodbye Windows phone. According to a recent article posted by TechCrunch, the head of the Microsoft Windows division has confirmed reports that...
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1.7KGoogleGoogle Powers Siri Search
Apple’s decision to change its default web search browser to Google from Microsoft’s Bing when accessing Siri may seem like a blow...
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2.0KFacebookFacebook Tracker: Taller, Wider, Smarter
Facebook adds 33 stories of San Francisco office space and a 4,000-mile trans-Atlantic cable to its assets. Plus, the social media giant...
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2.0KVoice ActivationSmarter Homes And Offices
OK, Google. Listen up, Alexa. Playtime’s over. It’s time to step outside the smart home and begin to build the smart office....
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2.3KRetailAmazon Tracker: Cities Clamor To Become Amazon’s Home Away From Home
Amazon has come under fire for price gouging in the week leading up to Hurricane Irma. As the Category 5 storm drew...
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3.3KArtificial IntelligenceCould AI Cause The Next World War? Elon Musk Thinks So
Days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the first global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) would “become the ruler of the...
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850AmazonAlexa And Cortana Forge Virtual Friendship
Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are now on voice command speaking terms. The companies announced news on Wednesday (Aug. 30) that owners...
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5.4KRidesharingEY To Use Blockchain For Auto Industry, Ride-Hailing Services
Blockchain, the technology that makes cryptocurrency like bitcoin possible, is moving into the auto and ridesharing markets. According to a news report...
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1.8KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft Accelerator Chooses All-B2B Cohort
Microsoft Accelerator, which launched in 2012, has so far accelerated 129 startups across 10 cohorts. For its 11th group of startups, however,...
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2.0KWhat's HotMicrosoft Introduces Coco Framework Concept With Bitcoin In Mind
Blockchain is more than just a technology being used for the transfer of cryptocurrency like bitcoin. Enterprises are looking to utilize blockchain...
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3.4KMobile PaymentsPayPal And Skype Team On Mobile Payments
PayPal, the online payment company that has been striking a flurry of deals in recent weeks, has teamed with Microsoft to enable...
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3.9KGoogleGoogle Hires Former Essential Exec For Home Improvement
As much as Google would like users to believe there’s no device like Home, the smart speaker is not exactly delivering an...
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2.3KRetailVoice-Activated Tracker: Smart Home Edition
Nearly two decades ago, Disney debuted its “Smart House” movie in which a young boy wins a computerized home. At the time, it...
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1.6KInnovationMicrosoft, Baidu Partner To Push Self-Driving Cars Around Globe
Microsoft and Baidu announced plans Tuesday (July 18) to partner to drive adoption of self-driving cars around the globe. In a press...
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2.4KInnovationMicrosoft Debuts Path Guide For Indoor Navigation
Navigating around busy cities today is next to impossible for some people without the aid of their preferred smartphone GPS system guiding...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft, Flexera To Streamline Enterprise Software Management
The enterprise B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market is booming, and Microsoft wants to help SMBs and SMEs manage all of the products they’re...
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2.8KRetailApple To Launch HomeKit Experiences Ahead of HomePod Launch
Apple, aiming to drive demand for its HomeKit app, is launching so-called HomeKit experiences in multiple retail stores around the globe. According...
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1.8KGoogleGoogle And AI: The Perfect PAIR?
Speech recognition, image search, translation — those are just the beginning for artificial intelligence, if Google is reading its pulse right. While machines...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft Adds PayPal-Friendly eInvoicing Tool For SMEs
Microsoft is positioning itself further within small businesses, announcing new features for SME users of Office 365 on Monday (July 10). In...
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7.3KGoogleConfused EU Regulators Slam Google
Does anyone else find it even mildly ironic that Google was just fined $2.7 billion in the EU for dominating an area...
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2.0KDigital PaymentsMicrosoft Wallet Gets Support From Ally Bank, First Light FCU
Microsoft may not be a huge player in the online payments market like Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay, but it...
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3.9KBlockchainBlockchain Tracker: The Future of Third-Party Transparency For All?
Blockchain technology has been making its way through the financial sector and pouring into mainstream industries for the last few years. With...
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2.1KRetailSnapdeal Holds Out For A Better Offer On Flipkart Takeover
India’s second- and third-largest eCommerce firms, Flipkart and Snapdeal, have been in talks for months about a possible alliance to keep ahead...
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3.4KRetailAlibaba Is Taking On Alexa, Google Home, DingDong and Little Fish With New Smart Speaker
In its latest effort to keep up with its American big brother Amazon, China’s eCommerce giant Alibaba has announced the debut of...
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1.6KInnovationSoon Say Hello To Samsung’s ‘Bixby’ Speaker
To Bixby or not to Bixby, that is the question – and long after Amazon and Google released their voice-activated assistants and...
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2.5KNewsTrue Or False: Apple Loses $104B In Value
A glitch in trading data resulted in huge movements in some of the largest companies that trade on the Nasdaq including Apple,...
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2.5KRetail360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home
360i asked Amazon Alexa and Google Home 3,000 questions and found out that the Home is (sometimes) smarter than Alexa — it...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsCommanders in Chief: Merchant Link’s CIO Keeps Data Security on Its Toes
Security in payments — it’s what consumers and retailers alike need to have successful interactions. With connected devices within arm’s reach of...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsAnother Global Cyberattack Is Targeting Corporates – Here’s What You Need To Know
Many corporates may still be feeling the heat from Wannacry, the ransomware attack that swept across the globe last month targeting computers...
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1.5KAppleSteve Job’s Hatred Of Microsoft Executive Sparked The iPhone
Apple’s iPhone was born not out of a desire to transform the world — but to stick it to a Microsoft executive...
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2.3KBlockchainBlockchain Tracker: AIG And IBM’s Smart Insurance Contract
In blockchain news, the technology may be on the verge of falling like dominos into widespread commercial use. While many outlets have reported...
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3.0KRetailWalmart Tells Tech Partners Not To Host Its Apps On AWS
With competition fierce between Walmart and Amazon, the former has started telling technology partners to not run applications for the retailer on...
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832Security & FraudIntel Becomes A Strategic Partner In Team8
Intel, the semiconductor company, has become a strategic partner in Team8, an Israeli creator of cybersecurity startups. According to a report in...
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2.1KSecurity & FraudCyber Security Risk Ratings Debut For US Banks And Enterprises
Roughly two dozen companies in the United States have established a set of ground rules and guiding principles that center on cyber...
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2.9KBlockchainAccenture And Microsoft Working Toward Digital IDs Via Blockchain
Providing physical of identity (IDs) may soon become a thing of the past. While it’s not entirely possible to have the correct...
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5.0KMobile PaymentsWePay And The Evolution Of Payments
Payments was once the specialized domain of very specialized players — but these days that is changing, as some big brands are...
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1.8KIPOSNAP Stocks Drop To IPO Price Of $17 After Lackluster Quarter
Fame is a fickle friend, and it seems that Snapchat may have reached the end of its run, if investor confidence is...
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2.7KSecurity & FraudMicrosoft Buys Hexadite To Help Companies Protect Cybersecurity
Microsoft announced Thursday (June 8) it has signed an agreement to acquire Hexadite, a company delivering agentless, automatic incident investigation and remediation...
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3.3KRetailConnected Consumers Won’t Trade Security For Efficiency
The more connected devices consumers have, the more concerned they are about the security of their financial information. That’s according to the...
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2.3KNewsTouch And Taste: The Future Of Food Is Here
The question, “Where do you want to go for dinner?” just got more complicated. Restaurants are starting to introduce virtual reality and...
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2.1KB2B PaymentsMicrosoft Criticizes India eProcurement Tender
The Indian government is accepting bids from technology companies to set up its eProcurement portal, but reports have surfaced that Microsoft is...
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2.1KVoice ActivationVoice Activated Tracker: Google Voice Is Coming To iPhones
If you tell Siri, “You’re fired,” she’ll come back with a quavering protest: “But, but…” That feeble protest may be the best...
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2.4KVoice ActivationVoice-Activated Tracker: Echo Show, The Speaker Who Would Be King
It’s official. Amazon put an end to speculation last week as it announced its next-gen smart speaker — screen and all — called the...
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4.4KRetailAmazon Officially Launches The Touchscreen Echo Show
Amazon put speculation to bed Tuesday (May 9) when it officially rolled out the Echo Show, a smart echo speaker with a...
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2.6KVoice ActivationMicrosoft And Harman Team Up For Speaker Powered By Cortana
Microsoft is getting into the voice-activated personal assistant market, teaming up with Harman International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, to...
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1.2KPoliticsPresident Trump’s New Executive Order Aimed At Modernizing White House IT
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday (May 1) in which a new technology council will be created to modernize the...
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2.2KPersonnelFormer FTC Commissioner To Head Up Microsoft Privacy Position
To help button up its privacy offerings, Microsoft has made the decision to hire Julie Brill. As a former Obama nominee, Brill...
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3.0KVoice ActivationVoice-Activated Tracker: Just Say No (To Ads?)
Two voice-activated giants have made themselves clear: No ads until we say so. The first was a major media story. Google had...
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4.9KRetailBlockchain Tracker: Blockchain’s Impact On The Supply Chain Industry
As the supply chain industry is one of the oldest businesses, it can sometimes be viewed as stodgy. While the industry has...
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3.3KSecurity & FraudHere’s The Most Popular Chat App For Cybercriminals
The most popular communication tool for fraudsters, cybercriminals and other digital crooks probably isn’t what you’d think. While the thought of cybercriminals...
