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Adyen CEO on AI for payments: ‘I was surprised how effective it was’

Adyen has turned its payment processing business into one of Europe’s biggest entrepreneurial success stories. Now it’s quietly deploying artificial intelligence to keep its remarkable growth streak going. The Amsterdam-based company’s philosophy of building tools from within rather than through acquisitions has been crucial to its rise, from its founding in 2006 to its 2018 IPO. Its…
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MobileNews

Honor V30 sells 100,000 units in first sale

Honor introduced the V30 and V30 Pro devices last week and today the first flash sale took place. The company was gathering registrations for pre-orders and now that it had some stock the first 100,000 units went out in a matter of seconds. According to the company, all it took was three seconds for the whole batch to be sold out. The 100,000 units include both the Honor V30 and Honor V30 Pro…
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MobileNews

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 and 765 will support Android Identity Credential API

Today at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit, the company announced that its latest two chipsets will support a virtual driver’s license or identification document via Android’s Identity Credential API. We’re very excited to announce that Snapdragon will be the first mobile SoC to support Android Identity Credential APIs, which means that mobile drivers’ license and electronic ID will be…
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MobileNews

Craigslist only took 11 years to make its own iOS app

Considering the App Store has been around for 11 years and Craigslist for 13 years before that, it’s astonishing the bastion of online classified ads hasn’t bothered to create an official, first-party iOS app until now. It just hit the App Store and, like…
GamingNews

Twitch introduces new dashboard so more people can create livestreams

Twitch is announcing a new set of features and tools for its Creator Dashboard. That’s a big deal, since the livestreaming platform has more than 3 million creators, or people who livestream. And the easy way to boost that number is to make better tools that make it easier to become a streamer. While 3 million sounds like a lot of streamers, it’s a relatively small part of Twitch’s overall…
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