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Lost Pet Posters Get An Upgrade For The Digital Age

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Still, that seems so old-fashioned in this digital age — at least according to Andrea Chavez, Founder of Pawscout , a company whose signature product is a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only helps pet owners find their wayward pets, but gives them access to other digital and mobile services.

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B2B FinTech Could Earn Index Ventures $2 Billion This Year

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Forbes reports highlighted the geography of the FinTechs — all based in Europe — as exemplary of the market’s industry strength. billion price tag when payments giant PayPal acquired the company, which similarly provides payment tools for business customers that include invoicing, analytics and access to business financing.

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Deep Dive: Accelerating Cross-Border Payments With Cloud Technology

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The biggest hurdle the cross-border payments industry faces is navigating the networks that govern payment flows in every correspondent bank through which funds pass. The nature of international commerce regulations means that cross-border payments will almost always be more complicated than domestic ones.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Facebook Backs Data Portability Law, Amazon Considers Registering Services As Separate Entities In India

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Data portability has turned into an important portion of the antitrust discussion domestically and in Europe. 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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As Smartphone Sales Dip, Samsung Launches Galaxy Fold

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Foldable phones are among the freshest trends in the smartphone industry, as demonstrated at the 2019 CES show earlier this year. The domestic smartphone market environment in 2019 doesn’t look very optimistic,” IDC Senior Analyst Wang Xi said in the report. “5G The smartphone market in China reportedly contracted 9.7

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Alibaba Is Taking On Alexa, Google Home, DingDong and Little Fish With New Smart Speaker

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or anywhere else, they said, as the product was designed for domestic users who already know how to navigate Alibaba’s online services. The more interesting race may be between Alibaba and its domestic competitors. It is unlikely to reach the U.S. The Financial Times enumerated the contenders.

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Frightful Five: The Early Bird Gets The Cheap Bird

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Here’s what the industry giants have been up to, just in case you missed it. the products are now readily available from a domestic source. Alexa has come to the great white north: The Echo Dot and Echo Plus went on sale in Canada on Wednesday (Nov.