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Kia Rolls Out Connected Car Subscriptions Via Zuora Platform

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The shift to subscriptions is intended to offer a seamless connected car through innovation, convenience and simplicity. Kia picked Zuora due to its smooth user experience and flexibility. Zuora was launched in 2007 in Redwood City, California by Tien Tzuo, Cheng Zou and K.V.

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Bitcoin: 10 Years Of Smoke And Mirrors

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The innovation touted 10 years ago, that has garnered billions of dollars of venture capital (VC) funding, hasn’t turned out to be the “internet of money” as advertised. In those pieces, I acknowledged bitcoin as an interesting, even fascinating, innovation. Innovation By Any Other Name. It isn’t because it won’t.

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Happy 10th Anniversary iPhone

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That is how the world first met the iPhone a little over ten years ago in January 2007, when Steve Jobs took to the stage to announce Apple’s latest and greatest innovation. And on June 29, 2007, we finally got it. The iPhone platform has enabled an incredible number of innovations that have made payments easier and more secure.

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Decoupled Debit — Again?

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The year is 2007. Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. Just like 2000, and then again in 2007 with the initial hype over decoupled debit. But even that has changed.

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Physical Retail Isn’t Dead – The Physical Store Model Is

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Aided and abetted by mobile devices, apps and payments and logistics innovations have substantially improved the consumer’s digital shopping experiences. At the same time, their in-store experiences have gotten less reliable. And it did so via a channel that was not at all conducive to a digital shopping experience.

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How next-generation technologies are transforming governance, risk and compliance

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Today, governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is being transformed by not only rapidly-evolving regulatory standards and growing costs of non-compliance, but also by the clear and present need for greater GRC adoption/engagement – by the first line of defense – while delivering added value by empowering business users.

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Data Dive, Milestone Edition: Gig Payments, Affirm And Contactless March On

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But he went on to hit a career 755, a feat that no one came close to matching until 2007, when Barry Bonds broke that record. Card Payouts is a card-based, front end user experience that integrates with treasury banks’ existing infrastructure. Thrive Capital Founder Joshua Kushner said he is excited to work with Affirm. “We

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