Nigeria Follows South Africa as Second Largest Market for Paypal in Africa
PayPal launched its services in Nigeria about an year back and it is already its second largest market in Africa. ...
Ex-VP of FINRA Appointed Managing Director at Swift
SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a member-owned cooperative through which the financial world conducts its business operations ...
Ryft’s Big Data Analytics Platform Promises 10GB per sec- or Faster- Performance
Ryft, a big bata outfit that has products which offer ‘actionable intelligence from complex data’ has rolled out a new ...
An Introduction to Recommendation Engines
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T-Mobile to Allow Polish Customer Payments in Bitcoin
T- Mobile is now allowing its prepaid cellphone customers in Poland to pay cellphone credit with cryptocurrency. Amidst the speculation ...
Visa Launches Everywhere Initiative to Boost Start-Ups
“We are looking for the best marketing solutions to help consumers achieve their goals using our products and services. If ...
Hellowallet Partners with Keybank to Offer Free Financial Support
Technology based financial advisory startup, Hellowallet has announced a partnership with Cleaveland based Keybank. Hellowallet which launched in 2009 has ...
Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Symetrics
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Korea Switches to Chip Only Cards for ATM Transactions
Korea Financial Supervisory Service has announced a complete shift to chip-only cards by the end of May rendering mag- stripe ...
PayPal Announces Acquisition of Israeli Security Startup CyActive
Following its acquisition of Braintree and Paydiant, PayPal has now announced that it is acquiring predictive cyber security company CyActive. ...
Corporate Clients Drawing Huge Profits for Banks in Mobile Payments
Mobile payments are becoming increasingly popular for consumers and most developments these days are focussed on consumers, however Fintech innovation ...
Using Kafka and YARN for Stream Analytics on Hadoop
Understanding Big Data: Stream Analytics and YARN Real-time stream processing is growing in importance, as businesses need to be able ...
Pyramid Analytics Just Tripled Their Customer Base, Again
Pyramid Analytics has reported all round growth in the past year, marked by increased customer base - which has been tripling ...
Hilary Mason: The Cult of the Algorithm is “Marketing Bullshit”
It seems not a day goes by without an industry leader remarking that machine learning algorithms are the future of ...
AlchemyAPI Now a Part of IBM Watson, Following Acquisition
Deep learning innovator, AlchemyAPI has been acquired by tech giant IBM in a bid to further develop its “next generation ...
Visual.ly Raises $3.3m to Become the Market for Visual Content
Visual.ly, the data visualization and infographics platform that provides on-demand creative services team to companies from its curated freelance workforce, ...
BitTorrent’s Client uTorrent and the Mysterious Mining Software
BitTorrent’s latest update is reportedly coming bundled with a software called Epic Scale, a Bitcoin miner that purports to use ...
US Bancorp Announces Its Own Mobile Wallet
US Bancorp is planning to launch its own mobile wallet services. A company executive Niti Badarinath made this announcement in ...
Softcard Announces Termination of Services following Acquisition by Google
Google acquired technology and intellectual property from Softcard last month in lieu of which Softcard has announced that its shutting ...
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9-11 March, 2015- Wearables TechCon, Santa Clara
The Wearable Tech industry is still searching for its killer app and the killer device. Wearables TechCon brings everyone working ...
Autodesk’s Latest Allows (Almost) Anyone to Create 3D Models
Autodesk, the 3D design, engineering and entertainment software provider has recently made free public beta its all in one, end-to-end ...
Y Combinator’s Sam Altman Jumps on AI Regulation Bandwagon
Sam Altman, the President of the seed-stage accelerator Y Combinator, has a thing or two to say about the development of ...
Google & Stanford Say Big Data & Deep Learning Are the Future of Drug Discovery
Pande Lab at Stanford University in collaboration with Google released a paper earlier this week that focuses on how neural ...
Bank Consortium Led by Goldman Sachs Launch Networking Platform Symphony
World’s top financial institutions led by Goldman Sachs have made a $66 million capital investment in new company Symphony Communication ...
Georgia Tech (ATDC) to Get $1M Funding from Payment Service Company, Worldpay
Worldpay, an international payment service company has committed $1M for the fintech entrepreneur program at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development ...
PayPal Announces Acquisition of Payments Startup Paydiant
With Apple and Google making headway with mobile payment solutions, PayPal is now entering the league following its announcement to ...
Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Traxpay
David Desharnais, CMO & SVP Product Management of Traxpay What is Traxpay's mission statement? Traxpay’s mission is to transform the ...
Data vs. Style- When Data’s Not the Only Thing That Matters
The data science market has reached a point that we can safely assume that if you have customers, data is ...
Ryanair Has Grand Plans for Customer Data to Improve Its Service
Low-cost airline operator Ryanair has revealed plans to implement a host of additional features to its bookings platform My Ryanair, ...
Apical’s Computer Vision Programme ART May Prove Pivotal for the Internet of Things
Apical, the tech company that has been innovating with camera and display subsystems over the years, has launched a unifying ...
Google Now Offers a Dashboard to Show You the Status of Your Cloud Infrastructure
Google has launched a Status Dashboard for its very own Google Cloud Platform to assist users get more insight while ...
10 Predictive Analytics Influencers You Need to Know
Predictive analytics is the sweet spot where machine learning meets the enterprise. Analytics & predictive algorithms fused together mean we ...
Unemployment & Inflation Data from the Eurozone Suggests We’re Turning a Corner
Recent data gathered by data mining firms and governing authorities in Europe has revealed the current unemployment and inflation situation ...
Data Quality Determines Decision Outcomes
Big data does not change the relationship between data quality and decision outcomes. It underscores it. The elegance of analytics ...
Use Twitter Handle to Make Payments: Barclays Pingit Announced
Barclays will be the first British bank to offer payments using their twitter handle. The service – powered by its ...
Bank of England Discusses Potential of Digital Currencies and Mobile Technology
Bank of England has released a paper termed the ‘one bank research agenda’ which discusses five main themes, spanning all ...
Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Ebury
Roman Itskovich, VP of Financial Products at Ebury What is Ebury's mission statement? Ebury, the global business finance specialist, is ...
Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Efigence
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10th March, 2015- Actionable Behaviour Analytics For Web and Mobile, London
A Great Opportunity to Network and Learn about Behavioural Analytics at the Barclay's Escalator (Mile End, London) about creating the ...
What You Missed at Big Data Berlin 4.0
The fourth Big Data Berlin took place on Thursday at Instituto Cervantes with insightful talks by four industry professionals and plenty ...
Introduction to Bayes Theorem With Python
About Tyler Folkman: I am currently pursuing my masters in computer science at UT Austin with a focus on machine learning ...
15 IT & Big Data Titans Come Together to Establish the US Open Data Platform
IT companies and business heavyweights are joining forces in a shared industry effort focused on promoting and advancing the state ...
Citymaps Picks Up $6m in Series A Funding to Makes Maps More Exciting
NYC-based social mapping platform Citymaps announced a new series A1 equity financing yesterday, to the tune of $6 million. The ...
Microsoft Add Even More Features to Azure to Bring Big Data to the Mainstream
Microsoft is rolling out new Azure services as a part of the larger strategy to "help more people realize the ...
Bank of England’s Advisory Panel Believes Big Data Can Help Cull Illegal Trader Practices
The Market Practitioner Panel (MPP), an advising panel assisting the Bank of England has revealed that in the near future, ...
Apple Goes Green with €1.7B Investment in European Data Centres Running on Renewable Energy
Apple has announced an investment of €1.7 billion to establish two data centers, one each in Ireland and Denmark, running ...
Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – TransferWise
Taavet Hinrikus - Founder, TransferWise What is TransferWise's mission statement? International money transfers are more expensive than meets the eye. ...
eBay Open Sources Pulsar to Analyse User Data in Real Time
E-commerce giant eBay has released an open-source, real-time analytics platform and stream processing framework, dubbed Pulsar. Through Pulsar, user and ...
