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Dynamics, Sprint Launch Battery-Operated Payment Card

Dynamics, Sprint Launch Battery-Operated Payment Card
Dynamics, Sprint Launch Battery-Operated Payment Card
January 09, 2018  |  Payment Methods

Dynamics, a unit of telecommunications firms SoftBank and Sprint, announced what it is calling the first battery-powered payment card on Monday (Jan. 9). The offering, dubbed...

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Toyota Enters Delivery Biz With Amazon, Uber Partnership
Toyota Enters Delivery Biz With Amazon, Uber Partnership
January 09, 2018  |  Delivery

Toyota has moved one step closer to making its self-driving cars a reality, partnering with several companies – including Amazon – to develop the vehicles...

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Fitbit User Base Grew To 25M In 2017
Fitbit User Base Grew To 25M In 2017
January 09, 2018  |  Wearables

Fitbit has announced that its base of active users grew to more than 25 million in 2017. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Consumer Credit Hit Record $27.95B In November
Consumer Credit Hit Record $27.95B In November
January 09, 2018  |  Consumer Finance

New data from the Federal Reserve shows that outstanding consumer credit rose by $27.95 billion in November from the previous month, the largest increase in...

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Warren Slams CFPB’s Mulvaney Over Data Decision
Warren Slams CFPB’s Mulvaney Over Data Decision
January 09, 2018  |  CFPB

Acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Mick Mulvaney, is coming under fire by Senator Elizabeth Warren over limits placed on staff members...

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Ripple Leads Cryptocurrencies Lower
Ripple Leads Cryptocurrencies Lower
January 09, 2018  |  Blockchain

Cryptocurrencies led by real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system Ripple’s XRP fell in trading Monday (Jan. 8) as investors bet its stock surge was a bubble. ...

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Facebook’s M Assistant Says Goodbye
Facebook’s M Assistant Says Goodbye
January 09, 2018  |  Facebook / Meta

Facebook’s text virtual assistant, Facebook M – which relied on humans to train the artificial intelligence system – will lose the human help component of...

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Ethereum Co-Founder Says Crypto Crash, Consolidation Inevitable
Ethereum Co-Founder Says Crypto Crash, Consolidation Inevitable
January 09, 2018  |  Blockchain

Charles Hoskinson, former chief executive and Ethereum co-founder, says change is coming to the world of cryptocurrency in the form of an inevitable crash —...

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