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April 6, 2018

Cryptocurrency

Meet Ben, An AI-Powered Bitcoin Friend

Buying bitcoin can be confusing and complicated, Ben, Inc. CEO Miguel Kudry told PYMNTS, unless one has a “bitcoin expert” friend who can help navigate the confusing waters. So instead of just designing a digital wallet for crypto, Kudry said they decided to build an AI-powered “bitcoin friend” to do that navigating. Meet Ben.

 

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AI Myths Podcast

AI Gets Personal To Reduce False Declines

Doing what’s best to serve and protect the customer from fraud: It’s a goal every FI wants to achieve, and AI, done right, can accomplish it. Done wrong, Brighterion CEO Akli Adjaoute told Karen Webster, might save fraud costs but will cost them more than money in false declines. Here’s why FIs must move past legacy fraud systems and thinking — and embrace “the real” AI.

 

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Data Sharing

Facebook-Gate: Rethinking How Apps Treat User Profile Data

The “Facebook fiasco” — it’s how Appthority co-founder and president Domingo Guerra described Facebook’s current data-sharing woes to PYMNTS. He also hopes it’s a turning point that will change things in a data-sharing permissions system that he says is clearly broken, both for consumers and for the apps they use.

 

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mPOS Tracker™

TRENDING: Why Simple Is What Sells mPOS

Farmers’ markets, craft fairs and holiday bazars can be the lifeblood of small vendors — that is, if they have the right POS system to keep the sales flowing. In the latest mPOS Tracker, PYMNTS catches up with sellers from Boston’s SoWa events to find out why fairs and market sellers prefer a simple mPOS system to one with the lowest processing fee.

 

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