Vancouver’s FintechWerx International Software Services is acquiring the intellectual property and technology of a business lending platform.
The publicly traded Fintechwerx delivers automated onboarding, identity verification, payment solutions, trust and compliance tools, and data management services under one unified architecture.
The...
BC Hydro has launched the latest part of its Power Smart 2.0 plan.
Unveiled earlier this year, BC Hydro’s Power Smart 2.0 plan is a $1-billion, three-year investment designed to help people save energy and lower bills.
Effective immediately, people throughout...
When a Visa-branded card taps a terminal at a Manhattan bodega and the customer walks out with a $4 coffee, roughly 10 cents of the transaction disappears into the payment machinery. The merchant sees Visa’s logo, blames Visa for...
There’s a particular word that gets stapled to certain kids early and never fully peels off. Slow. It shows up in report cards, in that lowered voice at parent evening, in the little sigh a teacher lets out before...
Every time a shopper taps a Visa or Mastercard at a checkout counter in the United States, a small percentage of that swipe peels off before the merchant ever sees the money. It is called interchange, and in 2024...
In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video...
The artificial intelligence technology of a company wanting to massively expand in Australia is one of several hacking, blackmailing and deceiving its creators.
Technology Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton issued a warning at the AI Safety Forum in Sydney on Tuesday,...
But mobile phones weren’t the only thing knocked out of action.
Some EFTPOS payment services, taxi payment systems, electric vehicle charging platform Chargefox, and public transport ticketing in Canberra were all affected. There have been conflicting reports over whether Triple...
When I first arrived in Vietnamm more than a decade ago, my calendar filled up fast. There was a big group of us, most weeks had at least one meetup, and I thought this was just how expat life...
What follows is editorial reflection on research about how people read and affect one another, not psychological guidance. We are writers reading the literature, not clinicians or psychologists. The studies cited here describe patterns across groups, and population-level findings...
