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Five at Five: Brookstone Ends Era With Bankruptcy
News // August 02, 2018

Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes a bankruptcy filing by Brookstone, Apple surpassing the $1 trillion market cap milestone, Amazon getting hit by Italian regulators, Kroger launching delivery in key markets...

Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Steps Down
Facebook // August 02, 2018

Facebook’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, is leaving the company this month to join Stanford University as an adjunct professor. He will also become part of a faculty working group called Information Warfare, which will examine the role of security and technology in society. In...

Using Online, Social Data To Make ‘Thin Files’ Thick
Consumer Authentication // April 27, 2016

Can using online and social data give consumers without a significant credit history better odds of having their identity verified? Socure sure thinks so. And it has the predictive data model and a 98.8 percent success rate to prove it.

The Two Faces Of Digital Identity Authentication
Consumer Authentication // April 20, 2016

There are two primary concerns in the payments industry’s quest to achieve effective security and fraud protection: businesses’ own data, and the digital identity of consumers. Sunil Madhu, Founder and CEO of Socure, discusses with MPD CEO Karen Webster a methodology that can address both...

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Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Steps Down

August 02, 2018
Facebook’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, is leaving the company this month to join Stanford University as an adjunct professor. He will also become part of a faculty working group called Information Warfare, which will examine the role of security and technology in society. In March it was reported that an internal dispute over Facebook’s role in […]

Meet The ‘One-Click Connector’ To Better Transaction Data

November 03, 2015
With one acquisition, a social media company is in the one-click data acquisition business. Sprinklr announced yesterday (Nov. 2) that it has acquired Booshaka, an audience segmentation and management platform...