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Samsung is giving customers a new incentive to use Samsung Pay, its mobile payments product. The company released Samsung Rewards today, which is a program that provides points whenever a user uses their Samsung Pay for a transaction. The points gathered through the program can then be exchanged for rewards including gift cards, Samsung products, and…

via Samsung Pay adds Rewards, offering points for every transaction — TechCrunch

Οι εξελίξεις προχωρούν στον τομέα των ηλεκτρονικών πληρωμών με ραγδαίο ρυθμό & οι εμπλεκόμενες & ενδιαφερόμενες εταιρείες προωθούν τα προϊόντα τους & εφαρμόζουν όσο πιο γρήγορα μπορούν την στρατηγική τους. Πολλά βήματα έχουν να γίνουν ακόμη στον τομέα της ασφάλειας – ένα ζήτημα που αγγίζει δισεκατομμύρια χρήστες – & φυσικά θα έχει πάντοτε “χώρο” για βελτιώσεις αφού πάντοτε θα ισχύει το ρητό “ότι φτιάχνεται από άνθρωπο, χακάρεται & από άνθρωπο…”

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Electric cars and hybrid vehicles can be incredibly quiet – so quiet that a populace used to cars that make noise can be hurt when sharing space with them. New NHTSA standards for automakers aim to help fix that with audible alerts hat are required on all new hybrid and electric going forward beginning September 1,…

via NHTSA adds safety sound requirement for new electric and hybrid vehicles — TechCrunch

Στην χώρα μας, εξελίξεις περί νόμων & εγκυκλίων & απαιτήσεων ασφαλείας για ηλεκτρικά αυτοκίνητα δεν πρόκειται να δούμε τα επόμενα 30 χρόνια, έχω την εντύπωση. Δεν είμαι φύσει απαισιόδοξος ή δύσκολος αλλά οφείλω να το πω και ας πέσει κάτω.

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One Power BI feature that almost passed me by (because it was released in August while I was on holiday) was the ability to create streaming datasets in the Power BI web app and push data to them via the Power BI REST API. This blog post has the announcement: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/real-time-in-no-time-with-power-bi/  The documentation is here: […]

via Pushing Data From Excel To Power BI Using Streaming Datasets — Chris Webb’s BI Blog

“We’re going to see more change in the next five to 10 years than we’ve seen in the last 50,” said Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, on record. While that statement is now a year old, it continues to ring true. Vehicle ownership is changing and self-driving cars will be implemented in the next…

via The insurance impact of self-driving cars and shared mobility — TechCrunch

Importantly, Bitcoin is a global digital currency that is borderless, frictionless and secure. Unlike legacy currencies and payment systems, Bitcoin is immune to capital controls and currency manipulation. It does not limit people’s freedom to move money to where they want it to be and cannot be controlled by governments for their political agenda. Read…

via How bitcoin protects against geopolitical risk — TechCrunch

Viber, the messaging app with 800 million users owned by Japan’s Rakuten, is today taking the next step in expanding its platform as it seeks to compete against the likes of Facebook’s Messenger and WhatsApp not just for audience — but revenues. Today, Viber is launching Public Accounts, a new account format for businesses and brands who want…

via Viber follows Messenger with the launch of Public Accounts for businesses and brands — TechCrunch

Donald Trump’s historic victory in the 2016 US presidential elections predictably immediately hammered the value of the dollar on foreign currency exchange markets. But it’s the opposite story if you’re looking at cryptocurrencies. Read More

via Cryptocurrencies rise on Trump victory — TechCrunch

It’s gloves off for social media companies that have patiently built audiences for their platforms and weaned them on steady diets of ad-free content: they’re all now starting to double down on ways of monetizing them. Now it’s the turn of LinkedIn, the social network for professionals that’s currently getting acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion.…

via LinkedIn opens Sponsored InMail to all as yet more ad products come to messaging platforms — TechCrunch

Φαίνεται μεγάλο βήμα αυτό για την LinkedIn αλλά είναι σίγουρο πως θα έχει θετική έκβαση τουλάχιστον για αρκετό χρονικό διάστημα. με την υποστήριξη της Microsoft  & την εξέλιξη & βάση συνδρομη΄των της LinkedIn πολλά μπορούν να γίνουν. Οι μελετούντες τα τεκταινόμενα διεξοδικά, θα μπορούσαν να το είχαν φανταστεί από καιρό πως θα γινόταν. Είναι γεγονός πως τώρα τελευταία η συνδρομητική βάση της LinkedIn είχε εμφανίσει τάσεις απώλειας ή και αδρανοποίησης. Είδωμεν.