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Transformations In Social Media Commerce And Restaurant Technology 

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Social media platforms are aiming to harness their contextual commerce potential. And in restaurant innovation, Domino ’s has become a leader in mobile and digital technology as it blazes its own path in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) world. All this, Today in Data.

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2016 Innovators to Watch: 1 to 5

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Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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CPOs’ Support For Innovation Surprises The Market

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Deloitte’s latest research on procurement technology trends is out. According to researchers, technology is playing an increasingly prominent role in this goal, but there is still much progress to be made in the adoption of technologies within the procurement department, Deloitte found.

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The Rapid Rise Of Social Credit Scores 

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The most common association with the term “social credit score” is with China. Since roughly 2014, the Chinese government has been working on the system, which is designed to be a “method to perfect the socialist market economy system, accelerating and innovating social governance,” according to a State Council notice from 2014.

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Can Digital Privacy Go Too Far?

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Using facial recognition technology and other biometric data is still controversial, but privacy concerns can also swing in the other direction. Attorney General William Barr because the social media platform’s plans to encrypt messages on Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram might be too private. Biometric Innovations.

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Will Rio Take The Gold In Tech Innovation?

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In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. With the Olympics well underway, the games have actually transformed Rio into a center stage for showcasing advanced technologies from major companies around the globe.

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For Visa, She’s Next Is What’s Next

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15) that it has launched a global initiative, She’s Next, Empowered by Visa, which seeks to support the advancement of women-owned small businesses around the world through shared research, experience and technologies. These entrepreneurs would like to sharpen their social media skills to broaden reach and grow their firms.

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