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120IPOFor Ant Financial, IPO Was Here, Expected And Then Gone
In this case, perhaps IPO could stand for: “It’s Possible, Only…not now.” News came at the beginning of this week that the hotly anticipated...
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168InternationalChina Now Has More Than 800M Internet Users
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has revealed that the country now has more than 800 million internet users. According to...
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189NewsFive At Five: Amazon Gets Beat In San Francisco
Welcome to Five at Five, your daily look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s news includes coverage of how a...
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231Security & FraudNew Data Shows 1.5 Companies Fall Victim To Ransomware Each Minute
A new report has found that 1.5 organizations fall victim to ransomware attacks every minute — and more than $1 million is...
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238Bank RegulationOpen Banking Gains More Investment And Government Attention
The open banking wave is starting to spread. One of the latest signs of that comes this month from Germany, where Hamburg-based...
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247DeliveryUber Freight Rolls Out Platform For Shippers To Access Its Network
Uber Freight is expanding its services, announcing in a blog post on Tuesday (Aug. 21) that it is rolling out a platform...
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271EarningsKohl’s Beats Street Expectations, But Weak Guidance Depresses Share Price
Despite an earnings report that came in above what analysts were forecasting for Q2, Kohl’s share price slid after weaker than desired...
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257Security & FraudDark Tequila Malware Targeting Mexicans For At Least Five Years
Kaspersky Lab announced on Tuesday (Aug. 21) that it discovered a sophisticated cyber-operation named Dark Tequila, which has been targeting Mexicans for the...
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292Partnerships / AcquisitionsFlipkart Buys Voice AI Startup Liv.ai
Flipkart, the Indian eCommerce player being acquired by Walmart, has acquired Liv.ai, the Bengaluru startup working on speech recognition platforms using artificial...
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271Security & FraudGoogle Could Be In Hot Water Again Over Location Tracking
Google could be hit with a class-action lawsuit and calls for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate its location tracking initiatives. According...
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339Digital PaymentsWeChat Pay Expands To Malaysia
Tencent’s WeChat, which is the leading messaging app in China, has rolled out a digital payment platform in Malaysia in what is...
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315Partnerships / AcquisitionsFirst Data Integrates With Ellie Mae’s Consumer Lending Platform
First Data, the commerce-enabling technology company, announced on Tuesday (Aug. 21) that it has integrated with Ellie Mae’s Encompass Consumer Connect lending platform....
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275SubscriptionsNetflix Testing Ways To Get Around iTunes For Payments
Netflix is reportedly testing a way to get around Apple’s iTunes in markets across Europe, Latin America and Asia, according to reports....
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365Retail1-800-Flowers Moves Into Gifting With Goodsey
1-800-Flowers has taken a big step forward into the gifting arena with the launch of Goodsey. Described by its parent firm as...
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465RetailWhy AMC’s Subscription Service Is Soaring
MoviePass, as regular readers know, has fallen on rather rough times. The subscription service was designed to disrupt the industry: Instead of...
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611IPOFarfetch Plans For IPO
After nearly a decade in business, U.K. based retailer Farfetch has announced it is ready to go public. An F-1 form filed...
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553RetailCustomer Self-Service Software Market Expected To Reach $13B By 2023
A new report revealed that the customer self-service (CSS) software market was valued at more than $5 billion last year, and is...
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389RetailThe Rise Of Returnable Insta-Fashions
Instagram has created a new trend among the middle-aged hoping to be hip: purchasing new clothes online, snapping a shot in them and...
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443Today In DataToday In Data: Better Ways To Buy, Better Ways To Live
Yesterday’s earth-shaking innovation can so easily slip into becoming today’s discarded idea that the transition can be easy to miss – the A&P...
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425InnovationVirtual Reality Gains Fresh Fuel Via Walmart Patents
Is virtual reality retail about to have a moment? Consumers seem ready, and one of the largest merchants in the world has...
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349Security & FraudIn South Africa, Debit Order Fraud Grows
Amid the headlines about cryptocurrency fraud, hacked digital wallets, data breaches and synthetic identities, some methods of making off with ill-gotten gains...
