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Odd Opportunities Washed In With The Tide
Odd Opportunities Washed In With The Tide
January 22, 2018  |  Retail

If there’s one guarantee on the internet, it’s that dumb trends and memes will go viral, and someone will try to make a quick buck...

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Walmart Seeks 3D Imaging Patent To Enhance Online Grocery Shopping
Walmart Seeks 3D Imaging Patent To Enhance Online Grocery Shopping
January 22, 2018  |  Retail

Walmart wants to make online food shopping easier by creating clearer images of the products consumers are looking to buy. Today, stock images are a typical...

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Aadhaar No Panacea For India’s Ills, Says Economist
Aadhaar No Panacea For India’s Ills, Says Economist
January 22, 2018  |  International

Is India’s push for biometric IDs a bust? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...

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Q4 Earnings Yield Stock Rally, But Corporate Clients Aren’t Driving Performance
Q4 Earnings Yield Stock Rally, But Corporate Clients Aren’t Driving Performance
January 22, 2018  |  Earnings

This week’s B2B Data Digest offers a quick skim of the flurry of earnings data coming out of the corporate banking, finance and technology market....

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Shell Strengthens Blockchain Focus With Startup Investment
Shell Strengthens Blockchain Focus With Startup Investment
January 22, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Royal Dutch Shell is boosting its position in the world of blockchain through an investment in distributed ledger startup Applied Blockchain. Get the Full Story...

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The Middle Market’s Expense Management Conundrum
The Middle Market’s Expense Management Conundrum
January 22, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Expense management technology is now a saturated market, particularly for the small business space – which is notoriously difficult to serve, because they are too...

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MPs Slam Finance Watchdog For Omission In RBS SMB Scandal Summary
MPs Slam Finance Watchdog For Omission In RBS SMB Scandal Summary
January 22, 2018  |  B2B Payments

U.K. members of parliament (MPs) say managers at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) knew — or, at least, should have known — about alleged mistreatment of small...

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UK Identifies Worst Late Payment Offender
UK Identifies Worst Late Payment Offender
January 22, 2018  |  B2B Payments

The U.K. government is naming-and-shaming the nation’s worst late B2B payments offenders as part of its ongoing crackdown on the practice of paying small suppliers’...

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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution
Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution
January 22, 2018  |  Retail

Charles Babbage is considered “the father of the computer.” But it was Lord Byron’s daughter, the mathematician Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first algorithm that...

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