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Egypt Startups Leverage Tech to Drive Food Industry Innovation for Consumers, Businesses
July 31, 2022

Egyptian startups are banking on digital solutions to drive business growth in the local and regional food sector, which has primarily operated offline and is in dire need of digitization to increase efficiency and productivity and lower costs. The ultrafast delivery model is still a...

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Mastercard Turns to Quantum Computing to Tackle Loyalty’s Thorniest Challenges
July 28, 2022

Quantum computing sounds like a Space Age construct, or at least the potential to build vast and powerful networks that can crack humanity’s most complicated and vexing problems. But Steve Flinter, vice president, software engineering at Mastercard, told PYMNTS in an interview that quantum computing...

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Monite, Codat Team to Allow Embedded Invoices, Bill Payments in Apps
July 26, 2022

Embedded finance startup Monite and Codat, a small business data application programming interface (API), have teamed up to incorporate accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) capabilities into existing apps. According to an AiThority report Tuesday (July 26), on average, small businesses use more than...

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Connected Fleets Leave Odometer Checks in the Rearview Mirror
July 25, 2022

If a business is paid by its customers for the number of miles its vehicles are driven, or if it pays its employees for the number of miles they drive a company vehicle, it’s good to get the mileage directly from the vehicle itself. Solutions...

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Automotive Retail Needs to Think More Like Uber and Open Table to Sell Cars Online
July 25, 2022

Globally, only 2% of car sales take place online. That meager figure, according to Tarek Kabrit, co-founder and CEO of Dubai-based online auto marketplace Seez, makes car buying one of the last multitrillion-dollar industries that has yet to be fully digitized. “To a large extent,...

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5G Steers Forklifts, Robots at BMW, Ford Factories
July 22, 2022

As the combination of 5G and autonomous technology looks to transform transportation and production in many venues, the early adopters include automakers’ warehouses and production facilities. In a recent example, BMW Group announced in a June press release that it has partnered with several other...

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Predictive Analytics Keep Delivery Vehicles Running
July 21, 2022

For commercial fleets, vehicle efficiency and uptime are always vital, but that’s been especially true over the last couple of years. During the pandemic, the demands on the supply chain expanded aggressively with the growing need for transport and delivery of goods. At the same...

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Tribal Credit Offers Expense Management for MSMEs
July 18, 2022

Global FinTech firm Tribal Credit has debuted its expense management platform, giving micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) greater control over their spending, according to a Monday (July 18) press release. The release cited a study by...

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Subskribe Debuts Revenue Recognition Module for SaaS Companies
July 17, 2022

Subskribe, which provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) billing, has debuted a new platform for SaaS companies, letting them integrate bookkeeping services, a press release says. Called Revenue Recognition, the platform will work with the Subskribe Adaptive Quoting and Billing Platform and will let businesses integrate quoting, billing...