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bitcoin has become available at over 16,000 ATMs in December of this year, a press release from East London-based cryptocurrency company BitcoinPoint says. The new partnership will do well for the mass-adoption of crypto, the company anticipates. That resulted in limited liquidity for users, a company blog says. In the U.K.,

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Tags are created, which helps the video become searchable. The technology, according to Bloomberg, is essential for software that companies use for search and recommendation engines for videos and other media. On its website, now defunct, the company said the idea is to not just recognize items, but also understand them.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Facebook has announced it’s going to stop using its controversial Tag Suggestions feature, and facial recognition technology is going to be available to all of its users, Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. Tag Suggestions, a feature that lets people tag friends, has been controversial.

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MAY 28, 2020

In today’s top news, Google reported a resurgence of hacking and phishing attempts in April, and tech companies are making deals at their fastest pace since 2015. Tech Cos Making M&A Deals Amid Pandemic. companies are suffering from a continued overall economic decline. While the U.S.

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APRIL 22, 2020

In a blog post , Google said the attackers’ attempts included impersonating health organizations and major fast-food companies in an effort to trick people into downloading malware. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said hackers had been targeting the World Health Organization (WHO), as revealed in early April by Reuters.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

While sites will still have the ability to tag individuals with “first-party cookies,” third parties will not have the ability to put cookies on websites to create a picture of users as they traverse the internet. As a result, “ privacy ” is said to be the chosen buzzword emanating from many large tech companies.

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JULY 1, 2020

While Lululemon bought an entire company to get closer to consumers at home, Walgreens expanded a partnership with Microsoft and Adobe to launch a new customer insights platform the company says will deliver personalized healthcare and shopping offerings. It will provide Walgreens and Boots (the company’s U.K.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Intuit closed a deal to buy Credit Karma for a price tag of $7.1 The company is now worth more than $74 billion. The merger was touted as a good thing because it could help both Intuit and Credit Karma boost their total mass of data, which could, in turn, allow both companies the ability to help people in more specific manners.

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Other rivals, such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea , say the 5G tech isn't as close as Reliance Jio says, and that it could be another two years away due to India's lacking ecosystem and the expensive price tag, the report says. Ambani also added that the country required policy developments for early 5G implementation.

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APRIL 15, 2019

At the same time, China is stagnating as the tech company loses shares to rivals like Xiaomi Corp. For many years, the tech company has produced older phones at a Bangalore facility. The company reportedly has assembly sites in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh to manufacture Nokia and Xiaomi products.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Eyeing weak demand, tech giant Apple has cut production for its iPhone X planned for the current quarter. The iPhone X sports features such as facial recognition technology and has a $1,000 price tag, higher than competing devices. The Wall Street Journal reported news on Tuesday (Jan. It’s a real headache.”

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In addition to being traded on the MICEX, the Russian exchange, these companies all have listings in foreign markets (Yandex has a US listing and the other three are listed on the London Exchange). Since these mature companies tend to carry more debt, you see more indebted companies doing much better than less indebted companies.

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JUNE 4, 2018

The bag that tags along, you might call it. The maker of the bag that tags along? The tech behind the luggage is the Robot Operating System (ROS), which houses a GPS tied to apps on iOS and Android smartphones. The luggage is not the only tech the firm will be, well, unpacking. Flush with cash.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Smart glasses company Vuzix has developed eyewear with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology that can recognize faces in a crowd, according to a report by TechCrunch. The company said the peripheral is especially helpful for “law enforcement and security guards on patrol,” and that it can locate 15 faces per frame in under a second.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating acquisitions made by Big Tech firms in the past 10 years. Payment is made with credentials stored with the tech giant across Google Pay, in a channel-agnostic way. The company said it would also open its platform to third-party providers — starting with PayPal and Shopify.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Weirder still was this: McDonald’s knows better than any company on earth that at least 30 percent of U.S. Yet the image of the kiosk is unblemished, as self-service is in high demand and expected to be a $31 billion tech market within four years. Domino’s has GPS tagged 400 U.S. million cash customers hungry.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

This is the first of three limited-edition collections from the Mastercard and MADE collaboration,” the company said in a press release. It also wants to showcase its blockchain -based tech; according to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report, losses from online counterfeiting have cost the industry $323 billion.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the midst of the concurrent holiday gifting and eating season, some of the world’s biggest tech companies are squaring off in hopes of dominating a new market: connected fitness. However, a recent gadget review in The Washington Post (which is also owned by Jeff Bezos) called the Halo the most invasive tech it has ever tested.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Facebook, Alphabet, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and other major companies are all working on AI projects, along with numerous tech startups. The company currently has 39 employees and closed a $30 million Series B funding round in the fall. There has to be an independent company,” Zeiler said.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

has rejected investor Bill Ackman’s offer to merge with his newly formed blank-check company to go public, preferring a traditional initial public offer (IPO). Now, the adversary is China , and the weapons of choice are tied to tech, data, deal-making and very large price tags. 15, priced at $98 annually or $12.95 Airbnb Inc.

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MAY 15, 2019

To help improve their operations, consumer services companies appear to have some very specific ideas about digital technology. From Yelp to Apple , technology companies are providing solutions that could serve retail environments. And tech companies are already working with retailers on payments innovation.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

Dada-JD Daojia, a grocery and delivery company in China, disclosed Thursday (August 9) that it raised $500 million from Walmart Inc and JD.com in a round of financing. Earlier in 2018 Walmart opened a supermarket in China that is high-tech. Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

stocks were on the move higher with tech stocks getting a boost. Apple is currently in striking distance to becoming the first company to hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion. A race has been on between Apple, Amazon and Microsoft to be the first company to reach that market capitalization. The company sold 41.2

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flagship location in Beverly Hills, with an eye towards the high tech. Among the features on offering in the new store is an interactive handbag sale that allow customers to add personalizations to the company’s signature bag before it is produced in Italy. Ralph Lauren has redesigned its L.A.

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MARCH 6, 2019

According to a report in Adweek, the shoppable ads will enable retailers to tag product images , and when users hover over them, they will find information including the brand name and the price for the product. Google isn’t the only tech company focused on shoppable ads.

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APRIL 22, 2020

With the right connectivity in place, he said, online remote support can help companies function smoothly and navigate any number of challenges. There are hundreds of use cases across all industries,” that can benefit from such enhanced connectivity, “but there are often only a limited number of companies that have done this,” he said.

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JULY 11, 2017

What they need, according to the Austin- and Sydney-based tech startup BlueCats , is a GPS: A Guest Positioning System to give servers a general sense of where a customer is seated. So that’s exactly what the company created, and it’s now in use by major quick-service and fast casual restaurant chains, including Panera, McDonald’s and KFC.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. For LendingClub, an online lender, the bid to buy Radius Bank means that (assuming the regulatory hurdles are satisfied), within 12 to 15 months, the company will move into a branchless banking model that offers services and products beyond credit.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

That’s because the tech itself has been around for a while. The problem, he said, wasn’t tech aversion or fear among Americans, but a mismatch of consumer habits and what the technology was designed to do. Time, and a big assist from the blizzard of 1978, eventually turned consumer preferences around. In fact, Pricer U.S.

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APRIL 22, 2016

In tech, perhaps more than any other industry, the eternal conundrum is to build or buy – innovation. Innovation is the lifeblood of tech, and it is also the greatest threat to tech firms. The affordability goes beyond the price tag. Yet only 38 percent would steer those same people to their banks. .

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AUGUST 15, 2019

The Apple Card looms, with a rollout that began last week through Goldman Sachs, and according to at least one analysis, the card might underwhelm consumers, lead to muted results (at least at the outset) for its tech and banking backers, and for Goldman, even lead to losses, depending on the economic climate.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

26), after investment company Raymond James raised its price target on the stock from $170 a share to $180, reversing a sell-off ever since the tech company launched the iPhone 8 and iPhone X. That’s good news for Apple, given the more expensive device means higher margins for the tech company.

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JULY 6, 2018

Sales and promotions won’t attract customers if consumers don’t know they exist, though, and many stores are now working to find improved, tech-fueled ways to better promote their discounted goods. Tapping Into Grocery Tech. Grocers also tend to have slim operating margins, making investment in new tech risky. If it costs $0.04

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That group would certainly include Alex Marcinkowski , chief strategy officer at Canoo , the electric vehicle company that has made headlines with its recent $600 million fundraise. Canoo accomplished that by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp.,

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JUNE 15, 2018

Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current. A high-tech stocking system enables associates to locate products and fulfill orders through the fastest product route. In fact, the system allows for home delivery in as few as 29 minutes to locations within two kilometers of the supermarket.

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MARCH 17, 2017

The cooperation with and technology provided by all partner companies have been outstanding. ” The news comes as a surprise to many since the company was just talking about the launch at Qualcomm’s CES press conference in January. Tag Heuer is releasing a unisex smartwatch later this year.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

After all, a $1 trillion market cap implies hefty expectations for the tech giant. Amid a general downdraft in technology companies, investors fret about slowing growth, about interest rates, about the state of the mighty U.S. consumer headed into the holidays.

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