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Behavox Wants To Use Machine Learning To Mine Your Company's Data And Make Employees More Efficient
Monday, June 10, 2019 - 1:58pm | 798Benzinga's Fintech Focus Podcast features conversations with the biggest names in fintech. Subscribe to the Fintech Focus newsletter to get a roundup of industry news delivered to your inbox weekly, and check out upcoming programming at Benzinga events. In this episode of the...
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Are We Heading Toward A Cashless Society? The CEO Of Raise Thinks So
Monday, June 3, 2019 - 3:17pm | 974Benzinga's Fintech Focus Podcast features conversations with the biggest names in fintech. Subscribe to the Fintech Focus newsletter to get a roundup of industry news delivered to your inbox weekly, and check out upcoming programming at Benzinga events. In this episode of the Fintech Focus...
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Apple Pay To Roll Out In Transit Agencies Around The US
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 10:58am | 445Starting this Spring, transit users in Portland will be able to use Apple Pay to purchase bus and light rail tickets. Marking a leap forward for mobile transit payments, Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced today that Apple Pay will be coming to bus, light rail and subway systems in select U.S....
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Rapid-Fire Pitch: HubTran
Monday, December 24, 2018 - 10:49am | 457Brian Rudich, COO of Chicago-based HubTran, introduced the automated payments system to the MarketWaves 18 audience during a series of seven-minute rapid fire demos held throughout the conference. The platform uses OCR and machine learning to streamline carrier payables. The average person can...
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Can Starbucks Teach Facebook And Apple A Thing Or 2 About Mobile Payments?
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 2:57pm | 359A recent survey painted a poor picture for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s mobile payment system, Apple Pay, as only 20 percent of survey respondents indicated they had used Apple Pay at least once. Naturally, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is paying close attention to Apple's successes and failures ahead...
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Here's Why Alibaba Stock Is Higher Today
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 10:07am | 144Shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) were trading higher on Thursday, potentially due to a report from The Korea Times which stated that Alipay, an affiliate of Alibaba, has launched Alipay Wallet, a mobile version of its electronic payment system. According to the publication, Alipay...
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Facebook Wants To Tap Into Financial Services
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 4:43pm | 621The world's largest social networking website is jumping into the financial services sector. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is only weeks away from getting the regulatory approval it needs in Ireland for a service that would allow users to store money on the social network site, as well as use it to pay...
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz On The Company's Future
Saturday, March 22, 2014 - 11:44am | 381Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) founder, president, chairman and CEO Howard Schultz talked about the coffee company's future with CNBC's Jim Cramer Wednesday. Expansion in China “I think China will have 4-5,000 stores when all is said and done. It'll be the second largest market in the world for...
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Starbucks Introduces Tech To Its Coffee
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 10:45am | 299Howard Schultz, founder, president, chairman and CEO of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) wants to make some money in the tech space, specifically dabbling in mobile payments. Schultz went over the coffee maker's plans on Wednesday with CNBC's Jim Cramer. “We have been and we will always be a coffee...