September 06, 2016
Meet Revuze, The Startup Bringing Artificial Intelligence To Brand Management
Let’s face it, data analysis can be a costly and time-consuming affair and can sometimes take weeks or months of scouring through troves and troves of data from a number...
September 05, 2016
Amazon’s Poaches eBay Exec To Push Machine-Learning Play
There’s a new sheriff in town in Amazon‘s AI operations: Hassan Sawaf, who heretofore was doing the same job at eBay. Sawaf will now head Amazon’s A9 labs, and his...
August 29, 2016
When It’s Time To Boot The Bots
Five years ago, Cornell University’s Creative Machine Labs almost broke YouTube with a video of two bots talking to each other. Whether you found it hilarious, mesmerizing, curious or even uncomfortable,...
August 29, 2016
Intuit’s Big Data, Small Business Expansion
Intuit is seeking to expand its QuickBooks unit in two directions: towards small businesses and towards Big Data. Reports on Friday (Aug. 26) said Intuit plans to announce these expansions...
August 26, 2016
Backers Nearly Tip The $100M Mark For B2Bs
Close, but no cigar. It was a busy week for B2B startups, which came oh-so-close to hitting the $100 million mark in investment rounds. The week’s biggest winner landed in...
August 25, 2016
Startup Offers Financial Services For X-Border Students
FinTech startup SelfScore, which launched the first dedicated Mastercard credit card designed exclusively for international students in the U.S., announced the closing of a $7 million Series A funding round...
August 23, 2016
Vizury Strives To Make Push Notifications More Engaging
For most consumers, push notifications are more an annoyance than an effective marketing or sales tool, with the typical push notification only converting about 4–8 percent of recipients. That means that,...
August 19, 2016
Foursquare’s Data Deep Dive To Reclaim ‘Wasted’ Ad Dollars
If you believe the old adage that half of all ad dollars are wasted, retailers just don’t know which half, then close to $250B is being wasted on advertising. In...
August 18, 2016
Fusing Work And Automation
Artificial intelligence has moved beyond sci-fi and now can help businesses automate the most routine tasks, eliminating errors, saving time and helping boost efficiency, as Adam Devine, WorkFusion's VP of...
With more than two-thirds of CFOs citing payment delays as a problem for their firms in the last six months, nine in 10 companies wish to expand their investment in AR automation to accelerate order processing, reduce invoicing errors and expedite payments. In the “Working Capital Tracker®,” a collaboration with Billtrust, PYMNTS Intelligence explains why the demand for AR automation is growing and what’s at stake for companies that opt out of this trend.
Although authorized party fraud accounts for only 37% of FIs’ fraud losses in dollars, these types of attacks are the most likely to impact customer satisfaction and retention — something FIs cannot overlook. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 29-page report, “Leveraging AI and ML to Thwart Scammers,” a collaboration with Hawk, contains 8 charts of proprietary data examining the role of ML and AI to help keep fraudsters from getting the upper hand