SMS-based communication is a valuable tool for everything from onboarding verification to customer outreach, but one that just 39 percent of merchants use today. Sam Shames, co-founder and chief operating officer of wearable technology startup Embr Labs, explains the value of using SMS services to...
In today’s top news, point-of-sale tech startup Toast is valued at $8 billion after a share purchase, and PayPal’s CEO says it’s only a matter of time before central banks launch digital currencies. Plus, Western Union expands its real-time digital payment service to 100 countries....
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It’s June 2013. Barack Obama is president. “The Purge” rules the box office. Wuhan is known only as the transportation hub of central China. And a young MIT engineering student named Sam Shames is bored. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
