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How Smartphones Will Become The Global Mobile Wallet

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As Apple Pay launches in the UK, it’s a good time to step back and ask: when are we getting a truly global mobile wallet? That is, a wallet that can be used in any country, anywhere in the world – both in-stores and online. Recent Adyen data shows that we’re adopting mobile payments – in fact, mobile now accounts for 29% of all online transactions globally. And by 2020, 80 percent of the world’s adult population is projected to have smartphones, so a global wallet is a fair expectation.

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Meet The Hacking Team Alumni Fighting Their Old Overlord And Its Spyware

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Alberto Pelliccione used to make malware aimed at Google’s Android platform for his old employer, the spyware maker Hacking Team. He tells FORBES he now wants to stop that same malware working, but is facing legal threats from his ex-employer, as are a number of the “notorious” firm’s former engineers, who are accused of stealing source code.

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Breezeworks Gives ‘Gig Economy’ Workers A Way Control Their Business

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Justin Berry is a 33-year-old heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician near Dallas, Texas. He’d like to get new customer leads and have access to software that helps him manage his jobs by communicating with clients and taking payments. He could sign up as a service provider on a gig-economy site like TaskRabbit, Amazon Home Services or Handy, which would help him do both those things. But it’s at a cost: he pays a per-job commission, and he isn’t supposed to connect directly with clients.

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lAC’s HomeAdvisor Is One To Watch In The Growing “Humans As A Service” (HaaS) Business

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I have become recently fascinated with what some have referred to as “People as a Service”. Because “PaaS” was already taken as a tech acronym as “platform as a service”, I’ll call it “HaaS”, or “Humans as a Service”, for short. HaaS refers to the growing business of digitally mechanizing and monetizing people’s fractional time. The one’s you’ve heard about on a national level are Uber for rides, or if you live in Austin like me, Burpy for groceries or Favor for, well, any favor like picking up things at a restaurant or at nearly any store. One major HaaS segment, a huge one, is home repair and improvement. Right now the press has keyed in on the big guys like Amazon.com who is entering the space or the small upstarts like Thumbtack, backed by Google Capital, but I believe companies with an established track record like IAC’s HomeAdvisor are the most interesting ones to watch.  I had the chance to interview Chris Terrill, HomeAdvisor’s CEO, and I’d like to tell you a little bit about HomeAdvisor and why I think they are unique. A little background first.

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Are There Safer Ways To Produce Nuclear Energy?

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While the United States is working to get four new nuclear units up-and-running in Georgia and South Carolina, it is also partnering with China and Canada to operate some highly advanced next-generation nuclear plants. “Molten salt reactors” that burn ?thorium? are not only safer but they also create less radioactive waste

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Accenture’s New Software Machinery: Automated Artificial Intelligence, Inside

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Automation is massively important in the realm of software application development and software systems testing and management today. But what is it? Technology automation is in fact not so far away from the industrial automation systems that drove the industrial revolutions(s) i.e. it looks after ‘stuff’ when the humans aren’t watching.

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