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4.0KSecurity & FraudMicrosoft: State-Sponsored Hackers Siphoned Money From Several FIs
Microsoft’s lastest cybersecurity report has revealed that state-sponsored hackers have attacked several financial services firms, managing to steal “large sums of cash.”...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsTrueCommerce Launches Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Integration
TrueCommerce has announced an Advanced Sales, Purchasing and Warehouse integration with Microsoft‘s Dynamics 365 Business Central. As a provider of trading partner connectivity,...
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2.6KAppleEx-Microsoft Exec To Lead Apple Smart Home Unit
Sam Jadallah, the former CEO of defunct smart lock company Otto, has been hired to head up home initiatives — including HomePod...
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3.0KArtificial IntelligenceMicrosoft President, Pope Talk AI
Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith and Pope Francis met for 30 minutes on Wednesday (Feb. 13) to discuss “artificial intelligence...
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2.5KEarningsEarnings By The (Lots Of) Numbers
Earnings, earnings everywhere, and so what do the numbers tell us? Across eCommerce, across payments giants, across social media, the last several...
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2.8KB2B PaymentsEnterprise Cloud, Security Drive Microsoft’s Q2 Earnings
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella emphasized the enterprise’s digital transformation as a key driver of the company’s growth, as the technology...
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2.8KBiometricsMicrosoft CEO Backs Facial Recognition Regulation
With concerns mounting over the use of facial recognition technology to monitor people and intrude on privacy, Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella...
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2.5KAmazon ProfileAmazon, Google, Microsoft, Others Spent Millions Lobbying In 2018
Tech giants like Facebook, Apple, Google, Twitter and Microsoft spent $64 million last year in the hopes of helping to influence regulations...
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4.6KArtificial IntelligenceMicrosoft Admits That Cortana Can’t Compete With Alexa, Google Assistant
Microsoft is taking its digital assistant Cortana in a new direction as it has fallen behind Google Assistant and Alexa in the...
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5.1KAmazon ProfileHow Kroger Is Taking On Amazon With Smart Shelves
Kroger’s smart shelving pilot is in its very early phases. The massive grocery conglomerate, which is the parent firm behind some 2,780...
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6.7KAuthenticationWhy Last-Mile Logistics Needs Last-Mile Authentication
For consumers, working with various institutions — such as banks, government agencies and medical systems — often means remembering just as many account passwords for...
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3.6KANTITRUSTAG Nominee Mulls Antitrust Probe For Tech Giants
William Barr, the nominee for attorney general, said that government regulators might need to take a deeper look at tech “behemoths” like...
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3.9KHealthcareMicrosoft/Walgreens Deal Heats Up Digital Healthcare War
Healthcare done digitally is attracting the attention and the dollars of tech giants, linking them with brick-and-mortar players in a push to...
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2.8KAmazonAmazon To Expand Into Video Game Streaming
Online giant Amazon is reportedly developing a video game streaming service that wouldn’t involve a peripheral and would solely exist on the...
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5.3KRetailWith New Microsoft Partnership, Is Kroger Digging In Against Amazon?
As grocers fight for survival and dominance in the age of Amazon, Kroger is testing connected devices with the help of Microsoft. The retailer plans...
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3.3KAmazonAmazon Becomes World’s Most Valuable Company
There’s a new king of the mountain in the seemingly endless tussle between the world’s four largest companies – Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet...
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3.5KInnovationKroger, Microsoft Take On Amazon Go
Kroger and Microsoft announced Monday (Jan. 7) that the two are partnering up to enable a connected store experience leveraging Microsoft’s Azure...
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4.6KAppleApple Continues Slide, Falls Behind Alphabet
Apple, once the world’s biggest company, continues to tumble after a disastrous Q1 shortfall that saw shares drop 9 percent on Thursday...
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4.9KB2B Payments2018 Recap: B2B Payments Innovation Welcomes Bank-FinTech Collabs — And Beyond
Though FinTech has, in many ways, heated up the competition with banks, traditional financial institutions (FIs) widely began to realize in 2018...
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3.3KAppleApple In-App Gifting Could Be Coming Soon
Changes to Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines have shown that the company will soon allow iOS users to gift in-app purchases. “Apps...
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5.5KSecurity & FraudMicrosoft Issues Emergency Internet Explorer Security Update
Microsoft issued an emergency security update for Internet Explorer after hackers were able to exploit a new flaw in several versions of the...
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3.3KSecurity & FraudMicrosoft Bug Hunter Able To Take Over Subdomain
Microsoft’s accounts were accessible by a bug hunter residing in India who was able to take over the success.office.com subdomain because it...
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3.9KSecurity & FraudMicrosoft: India Cos Lose $10.3M From Cyberattacks Annually
A new study has revealed that a large-sized company in India loses an average of $10.3 million each year due to cyberattacks,...
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3.5KAmazonAmazon Briefly Became World’s Biggest Company On Monday
While most of the financial world has been focused on Microsoft surpassing Apple as the world’s most valuable company, Amazon quietly stole...
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3.2KNewsFive At Five: Apple’s 5G Delaying Plan
Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest on...
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6.0KSecurity & FraudMastercard, Microsoft Team On Digital ID
Mastercard and Microsoft announced Monday (December 3) a strategic collaboration to improve how people manage and use their digital identity. In a...
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2.4KInnovationMicrosoft, Google To Meet With Trump Admin On Innovation
The White House will be hosting a variety of technology executives to discuss “bold, transformational ideas” that “can help ensure U.S. leadership...
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2.4KAppleApple Still Leads Microsoft In Market Cap By $26B
Despite a recent report, Apple still leads Microsoft in market capitalization by $26 billion. According to 9to5Mac, changes in outstanding share counts...
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2.7KAlexaAlexa Calls On Skype
Microsoft has revealed that online voice-calling service Skype is now available on Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo smart speakers. “With Skype on your Alexa-enabled...
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5.2KBitcoinBitcoin 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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5.9KMerchant 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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2.7KArtificial 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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2.9KB2B 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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2.9KFacebookTim 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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8.8KSafety 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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5.9KPartnerships / 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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4.9KInvestmentsMicrosoft 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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3.4KB2B 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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3.1KGoogleGoogle 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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4.3KB2B 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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4.4KB2B 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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21.9KBitcoinBitcoin 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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3.5KRidesharingMicrosoft 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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3.0KPartnerships / 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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4.4KSecurity & 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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10.3KBlockchainBlockchain 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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2.3KGoogleGoogle 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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7.5KB2B 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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6.3KBitcoinBitcoin 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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5.8KSubscription 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...
