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Embracing ‘Headless’ eCommerce. . recommends merchants consider adopting a “headless eCommerce approach.”. . Headless commerce enables brands to quickly adopt innovations and embrace new channels as they emerge and is an opportunity to future proof their technology investments,” Tran said. . she said. .

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It was another busy week for B2B FinTech startups, with globally and vertically diverse companies securing new funding for their enterprise-targeting tools. The big news of the week comes from TripActions , a corporate travel solutions provider that secured unicorn status with its latest fundraise (the largest in this week’s breakdown).

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Enterprise cloud company Deskera raised $60 million from Jungle Ventures, Cisco Investments, Tembusu Partners, Susquehanna International Group and InnoVen Capital, a press release said this week. In addition to the new funding, Deskera announced the debut of its B2B eCommerce platform Desk, allowing small businesses to buy and sell online.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Asia-Pacific and North American startups took the lead this week, with funding going to small business (SMB) accounting, payroll, B2B eCommerce and cybersecurity firms — just to name a few. Take a look below at the full list of B2B startups that secured new funding this week. This week, the company revealed $6.2

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

billion by 2020, companies — particularly eCommerce retailers — are considering mobile and online innovations in payments and IoT security technology to help thwart cyberattacks. for every dollar lost to eCommerce fraud. With fraud expected to hit $7.2 For merchants, this is no easy feat to achieve.

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JUNE 28, 2018

In funding news, Bitkoin Africa has secured funding from early-stage investment fund Microtraction as it seeks to bring together the functions of a crypto exchange with indigenous payment processing solutions, Techcabal reported. In 2016, for example, the country generated $7.2 billion in sales.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Recent research by San Francisco-based cyber security company RiskIQ , aggregated in the company’s 2017 State of Enterprise Digital Defense Report , shows 68 percent of corporate decision-makers have little to no confidence in this area. Brands have been eager to invest in digital transformation in recent years. That’s a good thing.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Kenya has joined the global community in terms of data protection standards,” Joe Mucheru, minister for information, technology and communication, told Reuters. I’m delighted to welcome AWS’s investment in Kenya. If the law is violated, offenders face a maximum fine of 3 million shillings ($29,283) or two years in jail. “It

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

However, while these marketplaces have created new eCommerce opportunities, they’ve also provided new avenues for digital fraudsters. As a result, companies like OfferUp are putting in place security solutions to protect both segments of their customer base. The technologies we use are generally built internally.

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MAY 3, 2019

The move comes the company is investing in refurbishing stores, rolling out faster shipping for eCommerce orders and offering store pickup as well as online grocery delivery. Workers are also organized into teams that finish tasks across shifts and communicate. Walmart U.S. billion for its stores in comparison to $1.63

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Many legal cannabis businesses continue to rely on cash, paper and offline methods of communication to conduct operations without access to traditional financial services. However, the regulatory pressures of the marijuana business can also mean the opposite. Technology From The Get-Go. Leaf Trade — which recently announced a $4.5

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

In our excitement to innovate and bring many new products into the world, we have lost the core of what made Snapchat the fastest way to communicate,” Spiegel wrote in the document, calling the update “rushed.”. At the time of the investment, Tencent officials noted that they viewed their purchase as a “strategic investment.”.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

However, brands are investing that $175,000 a second into more than just the ad itself, as the Super Bowl ad season is now a few weeks long, and often comes with a lot of fanfare and press releases announcing that an ad has dropped. In the most recently reported quarter, Walmart eCommerce sales grew 43 percent.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

It also communicating directly with store workers who match them to the best (and most likely to be purchased) products for each shopper in the store. Mystore-E recently secured $2.2 That means digital displays throughout a retail location that allow consumers to attempt things like virtual try-ons via augmented reality (AR).

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Scalable costs are investments made so that the business is easy to find for those who want it. Laundering operations may attempt to go this route because the onboarding process is faster if the acquirer doesn’t have to review an eCommerce site. Finally, make a point of consistent internal communication.

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MARCH 17, 2017

The movement toward financial inclusion, and toward a consumer experience that is seamless and intuitive and secure, is one that brings companies to share process and perhaps even prosperity. So take all the security, administrative and efficiency problems that come with being cash only — but writ large. Connectivity and Collaboration.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

And eCommerce volumes will soar, with countries such as China, Japan and the U.S. And instead of investing in tickets to go to a game, they’re investing in smart flat-screen TVs to watch live sporting events at home with friends. percent over the next five years.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

And eCommerce volumes will soar, with countries such as China, Japan and the U.S. And instead of investing in tickets to go to a game, they’re investing in smart flat-screen TVs to watch live sporting events at home with friends. percent over the next five years.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Essential for retailers on that front, posited Mastercard, will be the integration of innovative technologies — such as the company’s own Groceries by Mastercard, a refrigerator-linked shopping app — that work in concert, saving customers time without sacrificing security. As EMV slowly rolled out in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Just ask Amazon : Black Friday promotions aren’t happening on only one day this year at the eCommerce giant, but will start in October and run for weeks. Klossner, whose firm helps eCommerce companies fight fraud, expects everything to shift — how people shop, how they work, how they travel and how they spend their free time.

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MARCH 4, 2019

Shopping on a traditional, narrowly focused eCommerce site is one thing. Consumers are dealing with a single merchant, and the working assumption is that the retailer is vetting suppliers and products, and has invested the time and money to provide a secure environment in which consumers can operate without excessive worry.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The iTunes storefront for purchasing music, movies and TV may remain up and running within the major apps, but it will be less of a central focus as Apple redirects its attention to the booming subscription eCommerce market. Meanwhile, Jain is the face of SoFi to banks that package its loans into securities.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Texting, on the other hand, tends to dominate millennial communication efforts, making it a potential go-to for brands looking to reach consumers. They can also track customer spending and average bill sizes and increase customer lifetime value and return on investment (ROI). Here are the numbers: $1.5

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

The second, he noted, is what will be built on top of instant payments — what innovations can come through for businesses paying each other, or payroll management, or large smokestack industries like insurance — when money can move instantly and securely from any one party to any other. “We One Day Delivery . Now THAT would be groundbreaking.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Looking at this global trend, China and India are emerging as the two economies – despite their rapid growth rate – that are becoming more invested in keeping their cash flow strong and running. It gives them that sense of security that you don’t have otherwise.”. ATMs and security. The curious case of cash in Europe.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) winter, or a period of reduced interest and investment spending in the field, is not imminent, per se, but Brighterion founder and CEO Akli Adjaoute does think it could happen if people keep hyping AI the way they have been. Winter is coming — an AI winter, that is.

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JUNE 30, 2016

ECommerce retailers seem to always have some significant advantages over their brick-and-mortar counterparts — increased access to customer data and analytics being chief among them. “Those things are happening, but if you can’t even measure them then you can’t invest in the right initiatives,” he added.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) winter, or a period of reduced interest and investment spending in the field, is not imminent, per se, but Brighterion founder and CEO Akli Adjaoute does think it could happen if people keep hyping AI the way they have been. Winter is coming. AI winter, that is.

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APRIL 25, 2016

However, the context of the message as well as consumer preferences are so important because “more isn’t necessarily better,” Ahlawat emphasized, especially when it comes to text message communications, “but meaningful is what makes it interesting to cardholders,” she added.

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APRIL 4, 2016

WhatsApp revenue is pretty much a pittance – $10 million it was reported in 2014 which would make the return on Facebook’s $22 billion investment largely incalculable. Or, alternatively, be the only platform available for consumers to communicate with brands – which they could be well positioned to become in lesser developed markets.

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MAY 3, 2019

Business confidence remains relatively high, but the latest analysis from CB Insights found that venture capital (VC) investment took a turn for the worse in Q1. China saw a particularly dramatic decline in VC funding, though India and markets across Europe were able to secure investor attention for the quarter. Webware.io.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It was expensive — an investment that only big companies could afford to make, and mostly did so to make it easier for far-flung internal teams and corporate boards to meet without always getting on a plane. Payments will make all of these B2B commerce encounters easy, efficient and secure. Just take Zoom, where I started.

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