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Facebook Faces Billions In Possible GDPR Fines

PYMNTS

As reported, the social media giant was hacked through a vulnerability in the Facebook source code, which gave the attackers the ability to steal access tokens, which they in turn used to keep Facebook subscribers logged in. As has been reported, the U.S.

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Data Dive, Farewells Edition: Apple, Chase, SoFi, Uber

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Reports emerged this week that Apple has begun the process of scrubbing the social sphere of all trace of iTunes. So far, all of the social media content from Facebook and Instagram pages has disappeared, though its Twitter account still has content for the time being. See you next Monday!

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In Praise Of The Selfie And The Commerce It Drives

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Now let’s do a match cut to outer space — like that famous early shot of the bone being tossed in “ 2001: A Space Odyssey ” — where, during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966, U.S. based tech firm that recently won a Visa award for its cashless grocery store concept, is on the road toward bringing facial recognition technology to those merchants.

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What Every Banker Needs to Know Today About Artificial Intelligence

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In the last two years, almost every technology company has started using the terms artificial intelligence and, related to that, machine learning. If you just thought of HAL in 2001: Space Odyssey telling Dave he was getting pissed, you’re there! Hal9000 2001ASpace Odyssey GIF from Hal9000 GIFs. You will need internal data scientists.

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Like, Love, Yum: Papa John’s ‘No Brainer’ Decision To Be A Facebook ‘Start Order’ First Mover

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By 2001, Papa John’s had incorporated digital ordering at all of its U.S. Previously, users of the social media platform were able to order food from certain individual restaurants, but they had to look up that restaurant’s page in order to do so. This builds on the pizza delivery company’s legacy of digital firsts.

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Unattended Retail Lessons From Caviar Dreams

PYMNTS

PYMNTS recently spoke with the company’s owner, Kelly Knight, about her efforts to develop the vending machine technology, her experience offering caviar through unattended retail solutions and issues around accepting payments for high-end transactions. Hatching a new idea to dispense fish eggs.

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When Silicon Valley Needs Financial Advice

Banking 2020

On this blog we’re always looking at the intersection of financial services and technology, and that’s why this singular figure got our attention: $497 million. That’s how much just one institution has already made this year advising technology companies on financial services issues. And therein lies a potential opportunity.