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Taking The Adventure Out Of Paying For Adventure Travel

Taking The Adventure Out Of Paying For Adventure Travel
Taking The Adventure Out Of Paying For Adventure Travel
January 08, 2020  |  Travel Payments

You may not have noticed, but travel is becoming much more than just packing the family into a car or plane to visit the coast...

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Alexa’s Expanding Ecosystem
Alexa’s Expanding Ecosystem
January 08, 2020  |  Alexa

When Alexa was first introduced in November 2014, it didn’t look much like the next big thing in user interfaces. There wasn’t very much like...

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Why Travel Is A Popular Destination For Fraudsters
Why Travel Is A Popular Destination For Fraudsters
January 08, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

The excitement of the winter holidays is over, and that leaves only one thing: the annual bout of existential dread that comes from all of...

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Can Refined Food Waste Give A Boost To Sustainable Commerce?
Can Refined Food Waste Give A Boost To Sustainable Commerce?
January 08, 2020  |  Innovation

Sustainable commerce is having a moment — well, two or three of them given how millennials and even younger consumers champion the trend — and...

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At CES, Voice Plus Vehicles Jump Start The Connected Economy
At CES, Voice Plus Vehicles Jump Start The Connected Economy
January 07, 2020  |  Merchant Innovation

The future of the connected vehicle ecosystem — emphasis on connected —  is becoming more clear, it seems, every day. And that push continues this...

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The Future Of FIs Is About Flexible Innovation
The Future Of FIs Is About Flexible Innovation
January 07, 2020  |  Innovation

The rise of FinTechs in the last decade – and the millions of customers they’ve siphoned away from mainstream financial institutions (FIs) – has changed...

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Tracing The Rise Of Multi-Issuer Mobile Wallets
Tracing The Rise Of Multi-Issuer Mobile Wallets
January 07, 2020  |  Mobile Payments

Mobile wallets are on the march, so to speak, and what happens with them in their next phase of development — in 2020 and beyond...

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What Iran Can – And Won’t – Do In A Cyberwar
What Iran Can – And Won’t – Do In A Cyberwar
January 07, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

A crippling cyberwar with Iran looms, but maybe not. In an interview with Karen Webster, Samuel S. Visner, director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded...

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