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NEW REPORT: How Airbnb Does Payments


NEW REPORT: Chatbots Go Omnichannel As Personal Stylists


How Sprint Got A 17-Year Head Start On The IoT


How Visa Thinks About B2B Payments Innovation


In Payments, Closed and Open, Global and Local


Safeguarding Customer Payments For The At-Home Call Agent Boom


The IoT Sizzle, Wells Fargo Fizzles (Again) And Bitcoin — Does Some Of Both


Shattering Merchants’ Information Silos In The Fight Against Fraud


NEW REPORT: Western Union’s Legacy “Street Cred”


Ditching FICO, And Finding Another Path To SME Loans


Mastercard’s (Digital) Ticket To Ride


Amazon Buying Whole Foods For Almost $14B


Mastercard: The "Five Factors" Of Biometrics


For Retailers, Guarding the Consumer (Data)


Healthcare Ailing From Lack Of AR Automation


The Buyers: Chinese Consumers' Online Interactions


How Fraud Data Streamlines Digital Loan Decisioning


Why Partners And Profits Are Chef'd Secret Ingredients


The Over/Under On Apple's Ecosystem


Zelle Makes Its Debut


The Nation Most Likely To Trip Up Corporate Compliance


Truth And Myth In The Gig Economy


bareMinerals Back To Basics Retail Secret


Lendio And Comcast Pair On SMB Lending


Melissa & Doug And How Low Tech Can Be State-Of-The-Art


Why Excess Inventory Is An Opportunity Disguised As A Problem


Dodd-Frank Rollback Tops Regulatory Landscape


Weird Commerce: Brooklyn's Beer ATM


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Are You Smarter Than the Average American?
 

Americans are smart people, just ask them: 55 percent are pretty sure they are smarter than the average American. Which doesn't really add up (we're pretty smart, so we did the math). But, as we found out this week, that's okay, there are some remarkable things Americans believe that don't really add up, either. Like the fact that 20 percent of Americans think that buying a lottery ticket is a great way to plan for their financial futures. Feeling lucky?

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“Siri — Will HomePod Be A Huge Hit?”
 

A week ago today, the world got its first look at Apple’s HomePod, the device that CEO Tim Cook said will “reinvent music.” Music, Cook said, is in Apple’s DNA — and the product even borrowed its last name from the revolutionary Apple device that launched in 2001, the iPod. But that, Webster said, may be the only similarity they share. She said that iPod’s brilliance was solving a huge problem for consumers and music labels — and, because it did so, it changed how music was bought and consumed. The HomePod’s four-inch woofers and seven tweeter array, she says, seems designed to solve a completely different one. Here’s why.

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