December 04, 2017
New iOS Release Includes Apple Pay Cash
After months of speculation, Apple Pay Cash is out in the wild. The new feature came with the iOS 11.2 update that first appeared overnight this weekend. Though a middle-of-the-night...
December 01, 2017
Today In Data: Rideshare Woes, Procurement Solutions And Investment Activity
Many firms saw noticeable ups and downs in the past few days, with some experiencing highs like venture capital (VC) backing and new solutions to take extra tasks off employees’...
December 01, 2017
Frightful Five: Apple Speaker Delayed While Alexa, Google Assistant Charge...
Amazon’s Alexa just keeps getting smarter. Soon she’ll be making herself at home at work with new business-oriented skills, and she’s about to start powering payments, the company announced at...
December 01, 2017
Banks Continue To Search For Regulatory Relief
Almost a full year into Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. president, banks of all sizes are pushing the federal government for greater regulatory relief ahead of a key lawmaker...
December 01, 2017
The Cashier-less Grocery Store Experience
Timing is everything, as the saying goes. It’s also the story of a startup named Poly, and its visual identification software, says its CEO, Alberto Rizzoli. Two years ago, Rizzoli began developing an AI...
December 01, 2017
Uber’s Rough Ride And Amazon’s Holiday Stride
Breaches, scandals galore, and not a few losses on the bottom line -- call it a year Uber wants in the rearview mirror, with a Fizzling end to 2017. In...
November 30, 2017
Froth Flecks Tech And Beyond In Markets
Froth. Not just on your cappuccino. In your portfolio. At the very moment the period is being put on the end of this sentence, the equities markets are roaring ahead....
November 30, 2017
Alexa’s Getting A Job
Coming soon to Amazon Alexa’s rapidly expanding skill set? Going to work. As its annual re:Invent cloud services conference is going off in Vegas this week, Amazon announced that it...
November 30, 2017
Samsung Buys Another AI Startup To Bolster Bixby
Samsung Electronics has inked a deal to acquire Fluenty, the Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup. According to news from The Korea Herald, the deal includes the company’s engineers, technologies and assets. Terms...
