PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The New York Daily News reported last week that the city’s contract with source-to-pay technology firm Ivalua has seen its price tag increase from $30.5 million in 2016 to $47 million today, according to a report by the Checks and Balances Project, which concluded “New York City taxpayers were ripped off.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Well, we’ve already seen how unsupervised machine learning and AI can reduce reliance on rules-based fraud monitoring and cut false-positives drastically for banks. He pointed to the principle behind Smart-Agents, technology that creates a virtual tag to entities — in this case, words — and builds profiles as these words are used.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

With 130 million monthly active users tapping Instagram’s product tags on shopping posts, it’s no wonder that Instagram wants to be your mall. But, the report noted, social media – with its reliance on navigation tools like hashtags – provides an easier environment for counterfeiters to hide openly.

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Planful

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Compounding the challenges of remote work are talent shortages, continued uncertainty, and a reliance on siloed technologies and manual processes. We’ve expanded the areas where users can engage in threaded conversations, tag people in comments to alert them to changes or assign tasks, and much more.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

So, for nonprofits, every expense must not only be recorded and analyzed to assess their own spend, but it must be appropriately categorized and tagged to show grantors and auditors. .” Nonprofits will often not receive grant money until they actually spend money and submit that expense to be reimbursed by the grantor, noted Vroblesky.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Brandon Phillips, small business consultant at desktop warehouse management firm Fishbowl , says SMBs are struggling because of their continued reliance on spreadsheets — and they may not even know it. Research about the use of inventory management technology is scarce. The industry is quickly innovating, too, Phillips said.

eCommerce 40

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

That, Ayers said, also makes reliance on traditional identifiable data, such as dates of birth, Social Security numbers (SSNs) and even addresses, not as useful for identifying millennials.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2018

For Burning boosters, the week-long, back-to-nature campout built around self-reliance, gifting , creativity and leaving no negative environmental trace is a utopian vision of what a post-capitalist, egalitarian society of cheerful sharers would be like. The Two Burning Mans. In An Extremely Expensive Environment.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Firms eager to implement instant payments may find themselves hamstrung by their paper check reliance, however, putting the impetus on their banking and treasury partners to support such a shift. Interest in the Real-Time Payments (RTP) system from The Clearing House (TCH) is growing in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Many still are, but signs point to paper reliance phasing out fast. Checks are cumbersome and costly for businesses and FIs, with a price tag of about $8 to $10 per processed check, and they can take up to 15 days to process,” the new Tracker states. Paper Jams Preventing Total Transformation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Consumers may indeed be shifting to the cheaper iPhones (note that the XR has a starting price tag of $749) and walking away from the iPhone XR, as the older lines got $100 price cuts when the higher-end phones were launched. (It It’s an apt strategy, then, to pay attention to the app strategy in the quarters to come.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Yes, they seem to be purposefully trying to morph their reliance away from crude oil and energy towards more modern technologies. So she wants her portfolio managed that way. JOHNSON: And express it through that technology.

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