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Infinity Studio Signs Agreement for NIFT ePay to Enable Digital Payments for “Skoolify App” Skoolify, a digital services platform for educational institutions, has entered into an agreement with National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (NIFT), one of the largest payment processors in Pakistan for empowering digital payments, especially Mobile Commerce, through NIFT’s DFS platform, “NIFT ePay”, thus allowing parents to make all types of school fees/charges related payments, dig...

London Stock Exchange Group Directorate Changes Date 28/04/2021 London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) today announces that Tsega Gebreyes and Ashok Vaswani will join the Board as Independent Non-Executive Directors, effective 1 June 2021. Tsega will join the Risk and Remuneration Committees and Ashok the Audit and Risk Committees. They will both also join the Nomination Committee. Don Robert, Chairman, London Stock Exchange Group, said: “I am delighted to welcome Tsega and Ashok to the ...

April 19, 2021 With its name change having become official Monday, Cantaloupe Inc. is looking to start a new chapter in the company’s history as it embarks on a strategy to penetrate new segments of the unattended retail market and grow its business internationally. As part of the change from USA Technologies Inc., which was first announced in November, Cantaloupe relisted its ticker symbol on the Nasdaq exchange as CTLP. One of the driving factors behind the name change, says Cantaloupe ch...

A Global Tipping Point for Reining In Tech Has Arrived Never before have so many countries, including China, moved with such vigor at the same time to limit the power of a single industry. Credit...Sally Thurer April 20, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Now the European Commission plans to unveil far-reaching regulations to limit technologies powered by artificial intelligence. And in the United States, President Biden has stacked his administration with trustbusters who have taken aim at Amazon, Facebook an...

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Share it For most of the industrys life, retail had a plentiful supply of labor for critical tasks that was absolutely free. The source of that unpaid labor? Customers. Shoppers drove the last mile to and from their house to the nearest distribution hub (in this case a store). They paced the aisles and picked the merchandise from the shelf. They walked products from shelf to point of sale and then to their car before driving off, perhaps to another store.  It was a sweet deal for the retailer,...

Expert: Why mobile brands need cohorts There is a wealth of customer data in the digital space, both in mobile and desktop, but with more and more consumers opting out of data collection many brands are wondering what to do next. The answer could be as close as their own information about that consumer - and that is where cohorts come in. Kristina: What are cohorts in the data space? Todd Wooten, President & Founder, VRTCAL: Cohorts have been around for a long time because on the demand side ...

Dive Brief: Stripe raised $600 million in its latest round of fundraising, giving the payments processing software company a $95 billion valuation, it said in a Sunday press release. That makes Stripe, with dual headquarters in San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland, the most valuable company ever to emerge from Silicon Valley, the Financial Times reported. The company, which has not publicly discussed when it might file for an IPO, said it will use the latest capital injection to expand its alread...

Dive Brief: A new report from Finaria, a finance and investment company, estimates that the mobile wallet industry will grow to $2.4 trillion this year, a 24% increase from last year. The report forecasts that the market will grow to $3.5 trillion in value by 2023. The average value for mobile point-of-sale transactions is $1,670 in 2021, a 25% bump compared to 2019. Over the next two years, the average transaction value is expected to grow by 22% to $2,051, per the report. Though Asian countri...

Several new reports out on the changing habits of consumers seem to agree on one thing: shoppers want shopping to be simpler. And theyre willing to switch brands and even favored retailers if buying is made easier.