| AiFiâs Plans To Scale Checkout-Free Grocery Stores AiFi, a tech company working to give all grocery stores the âAmazon Goâ experience, takes top honors at Visaâs Everywhere Initiative competition. Ying Zheng, co-founder and CTO, talks with Karen Webster about whatâs next in a space where Amazon is already present â and where giving consumers back the 37 billion hours spent each year in checkout lines is only one small part of the value that a cashier-less experience gives retailers and consumers. |
| Payment Apps Breathe New â or Retro â Life Into Convenience Stores Gas station convenience stores are doing an about face in an effort to attract younger consumers â offering fresh food, better coffee and designer water. Mobile payments will play a major role in that transition, Charles Jarrett, the CIO of convenience store chain Cumberland Farms tells Karen Webster. |
| Why Privacy Must Be Baked Into IoT Devices As consumers add more connected devices to their personal IoT networks, security and privacy are paramount. These networks are only as secure as their weakest link â which is why Isabelle Noblanc, UL, says organizations making connected devices must practice security and privacy by design â and rethink identity management. Hereâs how. |
| | Smarter Payments Tracker™ | | TRENDING: The Long-Tail Of Account Takeovers Account takeovers can have disastrous long-term effects â just ask the victims of 2017âs LinkedIn security breach. Credentials stolen from LinkedIn are still being used to compromise accounts all around the web, says Dave Endler, President of SpyCloud. In the latest Smarter Payments Tracker, Endler discusses why expensive security solutions arenât a guaranteed fix, but something even more fundamental might be. |
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