PayPal earnings soar on e-commerce boom
PayPal on Wednesday reported record quarterly profit as the online financial transactions service benefited from an e-commerce trend boosted by the pandemic.
May 6, 2021
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News tagged with financial transaction
Business
Fintechs use rule-making pause to fight cryptocurrency proposal
Financial technology firms are fighting a Treasury Department anti-crime proposal that would require them to gather much more information about their customers' use of cryptocurrencies.
Jan 27, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Blockchain pet adoptions
The blockchain concept underpins digital currencies, such as BitCoin. It acts as a distributed register that holds all transactions of the currency in an encrypted and immutable table. The technology is not limited to cryptocurrencies ...
Aug 21, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Amazon Alexa bug exposed voice data
"Alexa, who is hacking into my system?"
Computer Sciences
Cleaning up money laundering
Money laundering is big business but wholly illegal big business. It has an enormously negative impact on local, national, and international economies as well as providing the financial means to fund other criminal activities ...
Aug 10, 2020
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Business
Virus upends outsourcing as firms 'reshore', embrace AI
Coronavirus is permanently shaking up the global outsourcing industry as lockdowns from Bangalore to Manila prompt firms to "reshore" jobs and, with AI, to move further away from needing humans at all.
Apr 21, 2020
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Giving cryptocurrency users more bang for their buck
A new cryptocurrency-routing scheme co-invented by MIT researchers can boost the efficiency—and, ultimately, profits—of certain networks designed to speed up notoriously slow blockchain transactions.
Jan 30, 2020
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Facebook messaging apps getting unified payment system
Facebook on Tuesday said it is consolidating the system that handles payments at the social network and in its family of messaging apps.
Nov 12, 2019
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Facebook's currency Libra faces financial, privacy pushback
Facebook is getting a taste of the regulatory pushback it will face as it creates a new digital currency with corporate partners.
Jun 19, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Reducing false positives in credit card fraud detection
Have you ever used your credit card at a new store or location only to have it declined? Has a sale ever been blocked because you charged a higher amount than usual?
Sep 20, 2018
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