Amid a worldwide data breach surge, France is dealing with an older-school type of cyberattack. As Bloomberg News reported Monday (July 29), vandals have cut several fiber optic cables carrying broadband service across the country, now four days into hosting the Olympic Games. According to...
U.S. companies are reportedly looking to this summer’s Paris Olympics to put them ahead of their competitors. Event sponsors have spent 18% more on the upcoming Olympics than they spent on the 2021 summer Olympics, Reuters reported Friday (July 12), citing Comcast’s NBCUniversal. Detailing the ways U.S. firms...
With eyes around the world glued to the Olympics, luxury fashion designers have a long history of taking advantage of the opportunity to cement their place as definitive voices in culture. On Tuesday (June 18), Ralph Lauren debuted the uniforms it has designed for the...
The opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics are set for just over a month from now, and the event is starting to look a lot like the banking and payments industries: Expect a lot of data, a big dose of AI and the ever-present concern...
June 19, 2024
The opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics are set for just over a month from now, and the event is starting to look a lot like the banking and payments industries: Expect a lot of data, a big dose of AI and the ever-present concern around cybersecurity. Because while the rest of the world is […]
August 06, 2024
About three-quarters of the international purchases made in Paris during the first weekend of the Olympic Games were made with contactless payments. Seventy-eight percent of those purchases were contactless, a figure that was 9% higher than that for the same weekend a year earlier, Visa said in a Tuesday (Aug. 6) press release. Visa, which is the […]
July 29, 2024
Amid a worldwide data breach surge, France is dealing with an older-school type of cyberattack. As Bloomberg News reported Monday (July 29), vandals have cut several fiber optic cables carrying...
July 12, 2024
U.S. companies are reportedly looking to this summer’s Paris Olympics to put them ahead of their competitors. Event sponsors have spent 18% more on the upcoming Olympics than they spent...
December 17, 2018
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Alibaba Group have announced the launch of the first-ever Olympic store on China’s Tmall. “We are delighted to launch our first Olympic store on Alibaba’s...
