April 05, 2018
Apple Working On Touchless Gestures, Curved Screens
Apple is reportedly working on new technology that would enable touchless gestures as well as curved screens for future iterations of the iPhone. Bloomberg reported Apple is betting the new...
April 04, 2018
State Aid and Tax Rulings
April 2018 CPI Europe Column edited by Anna Tzanaki (Competition Policy International) & Juan Delgado (Global Economics Group) presents: State Aid and Tax Rulings By By Georgios Petropoulos (Bruegel)1 State aid is defined as...
April 04, 2018
How Mom-And-Pop Pizzerias Can Tap Into Digital Orders
Behind many mom-and-pop pizzerias is an owner swamped with work. Their time in the restaurant often stretches long beyond the traditional eight-hour work day. That doesn’t leave a lot of...
April 04, 2018
Goldman Sachs Gearing Up To Enter Commercial Banking Market
Goldman Sachs has hired a senior engineer at JPMorgan to develop cash management tools as it eyes an entrance into the commercial banking market. The Wall Street Journal, citing people...
April 04, 2018
Apple Poaches Google’s AI Chief As It Aims To Beef...
Apple, aiming to catch up in the artificial intelligence front, has poached Google’s John Giannandrea, chief of search and AI, in what is seen as a major win for its...
April 04, 2018
Russian Payments Service Yandex.Checkout Launches Credit Service For Online Shoppers
Russia’s largest payments service, Yandex.Checkout, announced that online stores can now subscribe to a new service that allows merchants to sell goods and services on credit or by installments. According...
April 03, 2018
US: Analysts criticize Apple Pay nag, call it ‘antitrust behavior’
In what The Wall Street Journal described as a form of nagging, Apple is prompting users of its iPhone to enroll in Apple Pay, which has created a mixed reaction...
April 03, 2018
Banking On The Voice — And Beyond — For Conversations...
If voice is universal, so, too, is money — or, to be more accurate, finance. And a universal duality, perhaps, may be voice-enabled finance, if Fiserv’s vision rings true. For...
April 03, 2018
Enroll In Apple Pay, iPhone Prompts Users
In what The Wall Street Journal described as a form of nagging, Apple is prompting users of its iPhone to enroll in Apple Pay, which has created a mixed reaction...