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How UK Restaurants Are Coping With Delivery Aggregators

How UK Restaurants Are Coping With Delivery Aggregators
How UK Restaurants Are Coping With Delivery Aggregators
January 21, 2020  |  ResTech

One of the biggest questions that promises to play out in the larger world of restaurants — whether quick-service operations or others — is who will...

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How Shutterstock Fast-Tracks Royalty Disbursements For Its 1 Million Contributors
How Shutterstock Fast-Tracks Royalty Disbursements For Its 1 Million Contributors
January 21, 2020  |  Disbursements

More than 90 percent of U.S. consumers now prefer to receive digital payments over paper checks. Cash and checks persist as the disbursement methods for...

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Indian Telecom Provider Reliance Jio To Roll Out UPI Payments
Indian Telecom Provider Reliance Jio To Roll Out UPI Payments
January 21, 2020  |  Payment Methods

Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio, the largest in the country, is entering the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) space to compete alongside rivals, reports said on...

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Bitcoin Daily: IDC Identifies Terror-Linked Hamas Bitcoin; Venezuela Opens Crypto Casino
Bitcoin Daily: IDC Identifies Terror-Linked Hamas Bitcoin; Venezuela Opens Crypto Casino
January 21, 2020  |  Bitcoin

The International Data Corp.’s Institute for Counter Terrorism (IDC-ICT) has discovered a bitcoin front linked to Hamas that is associated with Iran, and is used...

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IKEA Goes Online In Second Indian Market
IKEA Goes Online In Second Indian Market
January 21, 2020  |  Retail

Swedish furniture company IKEA now has a second online-only store in India, this one in Pune. The store follows an earlier, similar model that opened...

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Subaru CEO Says Electric Vehicle Demand Is Lagging
Subaru CEO Says Electric Vehicle Demand Is Lagging
January 21, 2020  |  Innovation

Americans don’t seem to be showing much interest in electric vehicles, according to Subaru CEO Tomomi Nakamura, cited by The Wall Street Journal. Get the...

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Proposed UK Bill Aims To Crack Down On Late Payments
Proposed UK Bill Aims To Crack Down On Late Payments
January 21, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Labor peer Lord Jonathan Mendelsohn, a member of the House of Lords of the British Parliament, has introduced a bill to combat late payments and...

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Alphabet, Microsoft Disagree On EU’s Proposed Facial Recognition Ban
Alphabet, Microsoft Disagree On EU’s Proposed Facial Recognition Ban
January 20, 2020  |  Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft President Brad Smith doesn’t agree with Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai’s backing of the EU’s call for a temporary ban on facial recognition technology,...

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