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This Tech Company Is Turning Cannabis Shopping Into Spotify - Are Retailers Ready?
Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 10:00pm | 1119With cutting-edge technology and a consumer-centric approach, Jane Technologies, led by CEO and co-founder Socrates Rosenfeld, is transforming how consumers buy cannabis, making the process as intuitive as choosing music on Spotify. Rosenfeld's team at Jane Technologies is developing tools that not...
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Google Cloud Joins The List of 100-Plus Validators On Polygon's Network
Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 3:16pm | 492To learn more about Google Cloud and its upcoming plans to explore the crypto space, go to Benzinga Future of Digital Assets event on Nov. 14 where Google Cloud Head of Strategy and Web 3 Rich Widmann will be speaking about Web3 Innovations and Google's Role in Scaling Blockchain...
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Ethereum To Test Merge With Ropsten By The End Of Tomorrow: But What Does It Even Mean?
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 - 6:49pm | 527Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) — the blockchain that introduced Turing-complete smart contracts to the world — is about to take yet another step towards its transition to the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus protocol as part of Ethereum 2.0 development. What Happened: A recent...
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Apple Doubles Its Attack On Traditional Finance: The End Of PoS Systems?
Friday, April 8, 2022 - 9:53am | 351Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) expanded its efforts to make its mobile devices an alternative to traditional merchant point-of-sale (PoS) devices facilitating in-store card payments. What Happened: In a Thursday announcement, Adyen announced that Apple enabled it to use the near-field communication...
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Why It Would Cost $10B ETH To Attack Proof-of-Stake Ethereum
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 12:24pm | 434In order to create a conflicting block on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), an attacker would have to burn more than 2.5 million ETH worth $10 billion, according to core developer Tim Beiko. What Happened: In a new report titled “How The Merge Impacts Ethereum’s Application Layer,”...
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Missed The Toast IPO? Check Out This Leading Restaurant POS Company Instead
Friday, September 24, 2021 - 4:30pm | 614One of the hottest IPOs of the week was Toast Inc (NYSE: TOST), a company that provides cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) technology for restaurants. But be on the lookout for a leader in the restaurant POS space that could be buried inside a larger company and undervalued based on IPO...
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Blockchain: POW Vs POS
Thursday, April 1, 2021 - 11:50am | 2355A blockchain company uses blockchain technology to create new revenue streams and transform the way that it offers products and services to consumers. Whether your company is in the banking sector, retail or personal identity security, blockchain technology can change the way that you do business....
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Walmart's Digital Wallet Exec On The Retailer's Fintech Advancements
Monday, November 19, 2018 - 3:41pm | 535Digital wallets and emerging payments technology were at the forefront of conversations at the 2018 Benzinga Fintech Summit in San Francisco. Karla Allen, head of digital wallets at Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT), provided insight on the industry and its future in retail. Walmart Pay Walmart Pay is...
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Holiday Retail Forecast 2014 Part II: Online Presence, Cloud And Mobile, And Small Retailers
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 10:14am | 738Read Part I of this story here. MediaFirst Vice President Becky Boyd told Benzinga that online purchases are going to generate more sales than those in-store. The coming sales opportunity means companies’ online stores need to be more streamlined and easier to use than ever. Cleaning Up...
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Could Apple Be Getting Ready To Launch Electronic Payments?
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 9:17am | 585Any big new project by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) would be, by definition, news. Such was the case when sources told Re/code that the company had been interviewing senior payments industry executives ahead of a plan to launch an electronic payments business. With nearly 600 million iTunes accounts –...