PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

The social media company has indicated that the Access Act, a proposed data portability law, is a first move in the right direction. The social media firm purportedly contravened an Illinois state law via a “Tag Suggestions” functionality that enabled users to identify their friends from photos put on the platform in the past.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2017

The process is one of sense, analyze and act, said Kanniganti, adding that the Zebra SmartSense combination of ultra-high-frequency radio frequency identification (RFID), video and microlocation tagging acts as a “platform for retailers … with a big picture view of what matters to retailers.”. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Data breaches now cost Saudi Arabia and UAE companies about $188 for each stolen personal detail, for example, and this price tag is exponential because most hacks compromise thousands of records. The pandemic has refocused scrutiny on the open banking ecosystem’s privacy and security.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Fraud Tracker looks at the latest cases and allegations of fraud, which show rising sophistication in fraudsters’ tactics: internal bad actors are no longer acting alone, BEC scams are no longer reliant on chance and financial institutions face a growing trend in loan fraud. Mixing Internal and Internal Fraud.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. In fact, Vitarello said a survey his company did a year ago showed that only 15 percent of large retailers thought returns were a major concern.

Retail 86

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

20) launched its Galaxy Fold , a device designed to act as a smartphone or small tablet depending on consumer need. The electronics company also rolled out flexible mobile screen technology for its foldable phones. Samsung on Wednesday (Feb. Earlier in February, Apple reported a Q4 decline of 20 percent for iPhone shipments in China.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

New Zealand’s Auckland Airport recently introduced mobile self-service kiosks to its international terminal, which will allow travelers to check in for flights and print boarding passes and baggage tags. . Similarly, back stateside, drivers at more California DMV locations will now have access to automated services.

Retail 51

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

FinTech companies have been doing a good job of eating into banks’ turf, and yet it is the banks that are seemingly watching without really acting as quickly as they might or should. The affordability goes beyond the price tag. Think big” says CapGemini, but that exhortation rings out with little response.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Even the ratings agencies, normally slow to act, have been moving promptly, with Moody’s lowering Russia’s rating from Ba2 to B3 on March 3, from B3 to Ca on March 6 and from Ca to C on March 8, and Ukraine’s rating from B3 to Caa2 on March 4.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Any company planning a new promotion wants that campaign to connect with the right customers, specifically those who are most likely to take advantage of it. Amazon Go ’s camera-based approach is too expensive for most, Klein noted, and though applying RFID tags to CPGs can effectively track products, it also eats up profits. “If

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In a podcast interview with Karen Webster, Dr. Akli Adjaoute, CEO of Brighterion , a Mastercard company, pointed out that the legacy machine learning and AI currently powering digital assistants like Alexa, Siri and Cortana lack both adaptability and the ability to determine context. Easier said than done. It’s all about context.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

And it is that intersection point of interest perhaps not being acted on that Austin-based Made In hopes to step in to make a difference in motivating an up-and-coming generation of home chefs toward the stove and away from the microwave. As a result, the cookware is more or less manufactured here in the U.S. —

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

The price tag is enormous, as estimated by SentiLink and some of its partners, reaching as much as $2 billion annually — and that’s just for banks. That’s the longer-term goal of the company. In essence, the ID bureau would act as “an adjacency to the credit bureau. Flavors Of Fraud. It would not replace it.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Nope, Google went big, rolling out its fancy new phone (with an accompanying fancy price-tag), its VR entry and its Echo competitor. Google Home also acts as a slightly more impressive data receptacle than Alexa — as it is able to use the 70 billion facts the company has logged throughout the years.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

Reviver Auto seeks to bring the license plate into the digital age via its rPlate, which acts as a digital display, tied, of course, to license plate numbers, but with an eye on connectivity. The company recently raised $11.1 paper check all be transformed along the way? million in financing. “As

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Even the ratings agencies, normally slow to act, have been moving promptly, with Moody's lowering Russia's rating from Ba2 to B3 on March 3, from B3 to Ca on March 6 and from Ca to C on March 8, and Ukraine's rating from B3 to Caa2 on March 4. As Russian equities have imploded, the ripple effects again are being felt across the globe.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Making that happen is, again, not one activity but a series of them, including advanced alerting technology for spotting threats and a security operations center dedicated to finding, tagging and triaging threats, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “We And company-wide — given MoneyGram’s scope — is a big place.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2016

Be they in the form of conspicuously placed cameras, electronic tags on items or even old-fashioned, basic signage warning against shoplifting, such elements are regarded as commonplace in modern retail, and honest consumers — if they pay them much attention at all — don’t take them personally.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

Since this requires a secondary token, it can be a strong deterrent for fraudsters – but it can also act as a deterrent for legitimate customers due to its slow and cumbersome nature. Data tagging is how ground truth is established. The names of most people’s childhood pets and favorite teachers are now for sale on the black market.

Auditing 51

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

Just an incredible, insightful conversation about how to build a company, how to grow through acquisitions, how to make sure everybody on your team understands their role, is appreciated, and is acting and performing at the highest levels. And those are the same problems for big companies as little companies.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In fact, at Tesla, a company that I have valued at regular intervals over the last decade, the question of what Elon Musk adds or detracts from value has become more significant over time, rather than fading. Staying at the top, CEOs for companies often become entwined with their companies, especially as their tenure lengthens.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hollywood, distributors and cable companies need to find new means to monetize, because advertisers are questioning their media expenditures and now require ROI justification.”. Television shows, movies, musical acts, celebrity merchandising, concerts – you name it, they plan to produce it. The answers they find may be lacking.

Advertising 71

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That would apply to companies and platforms as diverse as OYO, Uber and others. Facebook had been sued over the use of “tag suggestions,” and had allegedly broken the law by collecting the imagery without asking for permission. The Reaction. Amazon, for its part, has said that the TDS will impact smaller sellers in detrimental ways.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Designed to act as both a smartphone or small tablet, the Fold looks nothing like anything else out there because, as its name implies, its screen can be folded in half at the middle. Going Big on New Features: the Foldable Samsung. through AT&T and T-Mobile in the latter half of 2019.

Technology 59

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

The flexibility Walmart was, and is, seeking with QR codes isn’t lost on other companies, though. .” Now, it seems noteworthy enough that a major retailer has a payment method in use that doesn’t require shoppers to tap their phones to a terminal.

Retail 43

Retail 43

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

“You can use solutions for tracking expenses, but the problem with products like that is they are tied into a certain company,” he recently explained to PYMNTS. And so, Tauriainen has launched the SPENT Money app, which acts as a single portal through which all expenses, personal and business, flow.

Accounting 46

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

How to recruit and retain the best people and how to use technology as a tool to give you an edge, not just in investing but in the ability to offer clients various solutions improving your efficiency, effectiveness and productivity as a company. Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. And I think you will also.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Pronouns are now frequently displayed prominently in social-media bios, email signatures and conference name tags. Far from an innocuous act signaling support for inclusion, it serves as an implicit endorsement of gender ideology and all of its radical tenets. Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Vice President.

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PYMNTS

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. Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

As the world knows, Elon Musk sent a short missive – over Twitter, where all the missives are short – that he was considering a go-private deal, with an attendant price tag of about $72 billion, or at $420 a share, where the stock ended last Monday at around $356. through buying stakes in companies, or buying companies themselves.

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

So, we formed a coalition which was over 20 organizations, financial institutions, consulting firms, media companies to help collect and distribute data. That needs an answer that’s a bit calibrated because it depends on the industry mostly, somewhat to some extent on the particular company. Craig Jeffery 1:35 .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As PYMNTS reported late last week, the regulator remarked that antitrust enforcers should be on guard against dominant companies buying emerging startups. “A Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez earlier this year introduced the Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act. The act is unlikely to go make much progress in a Republican-led Senate.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 115

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? Michael Lewis ] 00:11:29 [Speaker Changed] The radical act was just to tell the story as I saw the story, what, what possible purpose, what possible good would it do me to set myself up as Sam’s Bankman Fried’s defense counsel. And he buys a stake in a company called Anthropic.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

HAMBURGER: Yes, and so — RITHOLTZ: How could you not put money into this company? RITHOLTZ: Because it means we don’t really know why we’re slamming these two companies together other than the fees, the banking fees. Other firms have launched in the past as affiliates or related companies to law firms.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But you know, today, the markets — you know, think about now, there is a buy side, ETFs, ‘40 Acts. Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars. We were getting ready to buy the debt of a country — of a company that had come out of debt restructuring.

Restructuring 60

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

Jeff Fowler has been CEO of the company for just about two years. We had no clout whatsoever in a giant company like at UBS, and they said basically, like, look, you’re probably going to get laid off. RITHOLTZ: “We’re a big company.” ” CLYMER: We’re a huge company, you wouldn’t understand.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Is the thinking, Hey, if the companies pay for it, well then it’s not on the government to cover it. That they’re device manufacturers, they’re pharma companies, there’s hospitals, which are a huge part of this. So in other words, people, companies, employers don’t wanna hire a $40,000 employee, right.

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