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Security & FraudAlexa Could Spill Users’ Personal Data, Report Finds
Alexa, how could you? Check Point researchers have flagged a flaw in Alexa, Amazon’s...
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Walmart Amazon whole paycheckWhole Paycheck Tracker: Holiday Shapes Up To Be A Battle...
This week, the battle for the U.S. consumer's whole paycheck is more like a...
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Voice ActivationIs Voice The Ultimate Touchless Payments Experience?
Voice technology was already on the rise long before the global pandemic broke out,...
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ANTITRUSTAre Voice Ecosystems The Next Antitrust Battleground For Big Tech?
In less than a decade, voice-activated artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Alexa and Siri...
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RegulationEU Probe Into IoT Targets Siri, Alexa Over Data Collection
Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and other voice-activated assistants are on the hot seat as...
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Voice ActivationPandemic Drives Consumer, Business Interest In Voice-Assisted Commerce
Vast numbers of consumers are happy to ask Alexa, Siri or the Google Assistant to...
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Voice ActivationSensory CEO: Voice Technology Is About To Make Itself Heard
To say that voice technology is having its moment in the global pandemic’s aftermath...
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Voice ActivationPandemic Gives A Lift To Voice Assistant Technologies
Voice assistant technology already had an audience even before the coronavirus outbreak gave it...
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Credit UnionsNEW DATA: How COVID-19 Is Driving CUs' Digital Leap
COVID-19 has closed bank and credit union (CU) branches across the United States,...
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EcosystemsVoice Assistants Play Key Role In Triaging COVID-19
While negative and at times frightening headlines abound these days and there is certainly...
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Credit UnionsNEW DATA: The Innovations Credit Union Members Need To Stick,...
Credit unions (CU) members have a reputation of being loyal to their financial institution...
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CoronavirusThe Global Rush To Create Connected Communities
Despite being less than halfway through, it seems clear at this point that the...
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Voice ActivationThe Voice Assistant Wars Shift To Gaming
From a playing field that was nearly empty five years, the world of voice-activated...
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Voice ActivationSensory Teams With Appliance OEMS For Smart Voice Platform
With a specialized model of its TrulyNatural vocabulary speech-recognition and natural-language-understanding platform, Silicon Valley...
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Payments InnovationWhy Voice And Smart Homes Will Be Even Bigger In...
We are not exactly Nostradamus here at PYMNTS, but we do have a good...
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Voice ActivationSensory’s Voice Tech Platform Expands ‘Wake’ Word Options
Embedded voice, vision and biometrics artificial intelligence (AI) company Sensory has announced that its...
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EcosystemsOvercoming Voice's Discovery Problem
There is no shortage of skills for users to choose from when talking to...
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Voice ActivationGoogle’s Growing Global Challenge To Amazon’s Voice Dominance
On their shared home territory of the U.S. market, Amazon and Google have spent...
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Walmart Amazon whole paycheckWalmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Payments, Perks And Omnichannel Expansion
The pumpkins are gone, the Christmas lights are starting to appear and Black Friday...
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Payment MethodsA Day In The Life Of The Bridge Millennial
After three years of intensive research into the connected shopping habits of more than...
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InnovationSmart Home Wars Heat Up — Will Apple Catch Up?
The long-term battle for payments and commerce supremacy is hitting close to home — literally....
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Mobile Order AheadInside Dunkin's AI-Powered Mobile Ordering App
From adding new payment options to integrating loyalty and rewards, Dunkin' has taken many...
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AmazonAmazon Among 30 Firms Launching Voice Interoperability Initiative
To ensure that voice-enabled products offer customers flexibility and choice through multiple, interoperable voice...
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Commerce ConnectedIs There Anywhere Connected Consumers Won’t Shop?
It was recently reported that one in 15 purchases are now made between the...
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Voice ActivationHow Amazon Hopes To Make Alexa King Of The Road
When it comes to the household, Amazon’s Alexa rules the roost as America’s favored...
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RetailVoice-Assisted Retail Amps Up As Holidays Loom
As the all-important 2019 holiday shopping season looms for merchants, the area of voice...
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RetailVoice Promises To Play A Big Retail Role This Holiday...
When it comes to the holiday shopping season — an increasing area of focus...
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Mobile Order AheadDeep Dive: Voice Assistant Technology For Mobile Order-Ahead
Voice-activated food ordering was once limited to the realm of science fiction. Captain Jean-Luc...
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EcosystemsWho Will Be The Consumer’s Everyday App?
Everyone wants to be the consumer’s everyday app – the “super app” to rule...
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Mobile Order AheadThe Rise Of The QSR Rewards Aggregator
Mobile order-ahead is showing no signs of slowing down, with restaurant delivery expected to...
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Voice ActivationSamsung Introduces Bixby Marketplace
Samsung is introducing a marketplace for Bixby, the company’s voice assistant, despite its relatively unknown...
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AmazonAmazon Pay Bullish On Voice Payments Future
Patrick Gauthier, vice president of Amazon Pay, said voice payment through digital assistants will...
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Payments As A ServiceDigital Platforms Are Optimistic About the Future
Business investments in voice technology are speaking loud and clear about priorities. According to...
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Amazon InnovationsAlexa Can Now Listen For Intruders
Amazon rolled out Alexa Guard in the U.S. on Tuesday (May 14), enabling Echo...
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GoogleGoogle I/O To Highlight Google Assistant, New Smart Speaker
It’s only spring, but in a digital commerce and payments sense, it’s also the...
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Mobile CommerceShopping While Driving Gains Traction
Voice-activated commerce has been the key to connecting commuters. These in-car shoppers spent $230...
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AppleApple Continues Price Cuts, Including For Smart Speakers
No one will ever confuse Apple for a discount retailer – it’s a chore...
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RetailVoice Shopping: Walmart’s Newest Grocery Play
Retailers are turning to voice assistants to make it easier for customers to shop...
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RetailVoice Technology Makes (Sound) Waves At QSRs
Innovators are seeing the potential to shape the way consumers place their orders at...
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GoogleGoogle Assistant Beefs Up Conversational Tech
To help users make follow-up queries or ask additional questions, Google has brought the...
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Voice ActivationWhy Voice Is Vital To Connected Commutes
Here’s one way to imagine the dramatic developments in the growing connected-vehicle ecosystem, and...
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Today In DataDigital Payments, Connected Commerce And The Need For Speed
For consumers, and increasingly for businesses, speed is coveted when it comes to payments....
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Artificial IntelligencePandora Debuts Voice Assistant
Streaming music provider Pandora has announced the launch of Voice Mode, a smart assistant...
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EcosystemsCES Gives View Of Growing Connected Car Ecosystem
CES is over, but it left a clearer impression of what’s coming down the...
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EcosystemsChinese P2P Falls As Other Payment Ecosystems Expand
Thanks to a nationwide crackdown on peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in China, a move that...
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EcosystemsPayments Takes The Driver’s Seat In Connected Cars
What still stands as a type of existential dread (or, in some cases, a...
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RetailThe Eight Retail Stories That Shaped 2018
News travels fast in payments and commerce. The world does not perhaps look terribly...
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EcosystemsOrbita: Why Voice Technology Is Critical To Upgrading Healthcare
That voice-activated technology could change the face of medical care and the entire healthcare...
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AppleApple HomePod Plans 2019 Chinese Debut
Apple’s HomePod wireless speaker is set to go on sale in China next year,...
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Internet of ThingsIoT Needs An Injection Of Trust — As Much As...
It’s being built with every new car and truck on the road, every smart...
