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MARCH 22, 2018

Fraud detection startup Sift Science has raised $53 million in a series D round, bringing its total amount raised to $107 million. Founded in 2011, Sift Science plans to use this latest round of funding to grow its fraud detection and prevention product globally. For example, Palo Alto-based Simility received $17.5

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JULY 7, 2020

The top five scam categories were online shopping, travel and vacation, credit card, financial institutions and text messages, the FTC data said. Greg Firestone, data science vice president at Allstate Corp., We know fraud is historically an under-reported crime.”. Consumers reported 121,466 instances of fraud, the FTC found.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In today’s top payments news, PayPal has agreed to acquire shopping discount and rewards platform Honey Science Corporation. PayPal has agreed to acquire shopping discount and rewards platform Honey Science Corporation. And a movie and a meal can now be booked through Duplex via Google Assistant.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Singapore-based BCB Blockchain announced that it has launched a $300,000 fund to support incubators and startup accelerators in the Philippines under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). In other news, OKEx , the world’s largest futures cryptocurrency exchange, announced four major partners for OKB, its global utility token.

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JUNE 23, 2020

The Indonesian-based company confirmed the cuts in a statement to Bloomberg and various news organizations, noting that it would be eliminating 430 jobs. That amounts to 9 percent of the workforce of the tech company, which is headquartered in Jakarta and has a data sciences complex in Singapore.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

In the May Intelligence of Things Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest news in IoT, including new innovations, security issues, and how oversight groups and governments are reacting to the growing concerns surrounding IoT. For more on these and other IoT news items, download this month’s Tracker.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Its new CFO told The Wall Street Journal that managing inventory and building out distribution channels is a top priority as it approaches the Q4 selling season and it’s also a strategy to align the company with the digital-first economy. The focus on inventory, however, has recently climbed to the top of the consumer leaderboard.

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APRIL 21, 2020

In today’s top news, millions of dollars from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) have not gone to benefit small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and the CEO of Grab said the coronavirus is creating major challenges for the delivery company. Restaurants Seek More Aid As April Losses Could Top $50B. The Washington, D.C.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

Amazon ’s top executives allegedly made donations to the chair in charge of investigating the eCommerce giant, CNBC reported on Sunday (Aug. The donations were reportedly made two months before lawmakers were planning to interrogate Amazon as part of a bigger antitrust probe that also involved Apple , Facebook and Google.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

What we’re seeing from where we sit at Vulcan is a ‘demand pull’ forward across technologies, whether it’s data science, medical science, payments, FinTech, contextual finance, digital banking — all of those services that are technology- and digital delivery-related are surging.”. But will they continue to surge?

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

The city has earned top rankings for its startup ecosystem, passion for green living and supporting a thriving job economy. . In this week’s installment of PYMNTS’ Weekly Tech Center Roundup , we head back to Canada to check out the growing tech landscape and why it’s become a magnet for top talent. The city was ranked as the No.

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MARCH 3, 2020

In today’s top news, Apple manufacturer and supplier Foxconn has returned to production, the Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals with laundering over $100 million in cryptocurrency, and TurboTax’s deal to buy Credit Karma has sparked antitrust concerns. Apple Parts Maker Foxconn Back To Work In China.

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MARCH 28, 2018

The saga, along with mounting concerns over “ fake news ,” are, in many ways, pushing corporate cybersecurity in a new direction, says Kevin Lee, the trust and safety architect at cybersecurity firm Sift Science. Fake news and misinformation are top of mind right now, especially in the U.S.”

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In today’s top payments news, Flywire appointed Rob Orgel to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. The Science Behind Affirm’s Identity Data Play. Also, Uber ’s Q3 results beat analyst estimates in terms of headline numbers. Nium, Formerly InstaRem, Drops Bank License Pursuit.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

We take a similar attitude when it comes basic math and science — but when it comes to financial literacy, only 21 states require financial education, Dr. Annamaria Lusardi recently told Karen Webster. trillion of student loans are outstanding), Lusardi said she believes America must make financial literacy a top priority.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Big News of the Week: Another Big Brand Break-Up. And finally, in more peaceful Amazon news…. This is good news for our mutual customers, who have come to rely on the FedEx Ground offering,” a FedEx spokeswoman said. Big News of the Week: Robots on the Rise . Walmart remained in the top 10 in 2019, in the No.

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APRIL 29, 2019

The news sent the company’s shares rising 5 percent, Reuters reported. In other recent Spotify news, it was reported earlier this month that Amazon is planning to launch a free ad-supported music service caused shares of Spotify to drop 4 percent on April 15. ” The firm has over 20 new shows planned to roll out this year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five , your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories include a new mark in the evolving relationship between payments and biometrics, along with a look at possible new regulation for digital currency. Learn more about what products those new hires will likely work on.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

In other IBM news, the tech giant and Chainyard have teamed to develop a blockchain platform that streamlines supply chain management. IBM has said the program would have minimal costs as it can be integrated on top of systems that are already in place.

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APRIL 20, 2018

In the B2B world, a productive sales team translates into top-line growth and a steady conversion pipeline. To that end, Cup of Data, which offers marketing science solutions for software-as-a-service (SaaS) B2B firms, said last week that it had forged an OEM partnership with InsideView. Said Werner, an average of 6.8

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to a news release issued late last week, Marine Transport International enables multiple parties in global trade — including supplier, shipper and customs authorities — to access real-time data about a shipment using blockchain. MTI also announced a white paper detailing the solution, developed in conjunction with Agility Sciences.

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CFO Talks

DECEMBER 16, 2021

? ? ?. Raised on a farm, Henk Cronje has returned to his roots as Head of Finance at Agri Technovation, a global innovation business focused on crop performance fuelled by science and technology. HENK CRONJE: I think science definitely but on top of that, technology. It’s great to be part of the CFO family.’.

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MAY 1, 2018

Amazon , announced news on Tuesday (May 1) that it will expand its Boston Tech Hub, creating 2,000 new tech jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and robotics engineering. Walsh noted in the press release.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

According to news from Bloomberg Technology , Facebook discovered Michael Sayman at 17 when he was using the company’s developer tools for an iPhone application he created. Michael Sayman, one of Facebook’s youngest employees, is leaving his position at the company for Alphabet Inc.’s

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

The news came via a statement issued at the company’s investor conference. On top of that news, Kroger laid out its plan of attack in the increasingly competitve and cut-throat grocery retail space. It looks like Kroger might be unloading its $1.4 Fundamentally, we believe we have one of the best data assets,” he said.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

In the news release, the company said it is launching QuickBooks Capital and becoming a direct lender to small business customers in need of working capital. Intuit’s announcement noted the solution was developed on top of its existing data science and machine learning capabilities to underwrite loans to SMBs.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The degrees include health science, health and wellness and healthcare management/administration, offered through Southern New Hampshire University, Purdue University Global, Wilmington University and Bellevue University. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. The retailer’s 1.5 million U.S. billion to $43.6 billion for fiscal 2020.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Two cybersecurity companies came out on top, but they both focus their enterprise security efforts in different ways. Backers at Meritech Capital Partners and Lead Edge Capital led the Series D investment round, according to TechCrunch news, while Index Ventures and Workday also participated.

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JULY 18, 2016

The program, dubbed the Advanced Wireless Research Initiative (AWRI), is being headed up by the National Science Foundation (NSF), with it and companies in the industry providing the funding for the 5G research. Some of the companies that are kicking in money include AT&T, Samsung, Intel, Sprint, Nokia, Verizon and HTC.

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MARCH 9, 2019

Her first post shared her visit to the Science Museum in London, along with a picture of an old letter from her great-great-grandfather Prince Albert to computer pioneer Charles Babbage. s Jessica Furseth wrote for Vox. I’m not eating cold beans while I watch the rioting,” he is reported to have noted.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

She began her career at IBM in Global Services and came to them with a BS in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Stats from Columbia. So IBM, I’m sort of jumping ahead in the story, you began your career in Computer Science is coding on a Commodore 64. Lynn Martin, welcome to Bloomberg. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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JUNE 1, 2017

The good news, notes Rob Topol, general manager of Intel’s 5G business and technology, is the various wonders that this level of connectivity between devices will make things possible in the future that were the wildest dreams of science fiction writers in the not-to-distant past. By most estimates there are 6.3 The Need For Speed.

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MAY 2, 2019

First, they are easy to deploy and use, and people are simply used to using them — in history, science and most other things, inertia is a very forceful factor, as ironic as that might seem. But if everyone who’s anyone seems to know passwords are hardly ideal, why does that security method still have life? million, with U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2018

That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy. As for the more specific issues that have been unfolding over the last few weeks relating to data science firm Cambridge Analytica, Zuckerberg was a bit more defensive. In the U.S.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Accelerated digital transformation The pandemic has driven CFOs to accelerate digital investment timelines from the pace of a multi-year marathon to a 12-month sprint while 82% of respondents indicated that advanced data analytics technologies and tools were a top priority, according to a Gartner survey of 173 CFOs conducted in October.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s in the top 1% of its peers. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. Computer science bachelor’s from, from RPI in 85, PhD in computer science from Harvard in 92. Harvard has a smaller computer science department.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

All toys selected will in some way be related to science, technology, engineering and math. Another new feature has Prime users excited by the prospect of shaving another second off their purchase times. The company is pulling out all the stops to up the convenience factor. from Chinese merchants.

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