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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Safety may come first, but the security guard industry hasn’t really been updated in decades. As an “Uber of X” company, San Francisco–based Bannerman pairs security guards with businesses in high-rise buildings seeking protection. Security guards today rely very much on pen and paper and phone tag. Absolutely.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 11, 2016
Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand by way of rail ticket machine sales, an Australian startup banks on the aptly named Dash and Zcash fervor fades. But as markets saw their prices fall, bitcoin’s numbers went up. In this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, bitcoin soars, then settles down and plans for its yearly sale abound.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 15, 2019
In other words, some of their identity attributes can help them attain housing, a job or credit – but that identity might not be very good: That is, it might be bad data, inaccurate data or data filled with bad math. But he said that version of biometrics has suffered a number of limitations, particularly around making the technology useful.
PYMNTS
JUNE 14, 2019
While Amazon is fairly tight-lipped about specific numbers, eMarketer has cut its estimate of Amazon’s current online commerce market share in the U.S. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. delivery startup that raised $575 million in funding. Starting with… Amazon.
Barry Ritholtz
JANUARY 9, 2024
And so the thing we were doing was sort of solving like often securities law or tax or accounting problems for people with like derivatives. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? Everything is securities fraud.
PYMNTS
MARCH 14, 2016
It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. Is it a stealth startup from Silicon Valley? Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Visa, and many of the most valuable startups, like Uber, are multisided platforms. A number of car companies are going with Apple or Google platforms.
PYMNTS
MAY 15, 2017
Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Experts believe that number could double again in 2017.
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