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What a quarter century of digital transformation at PayPal looks like

CIO

As a company with over 431 million active accounts, it sees huge potential in AI to create the next generation of payments and commerce. Currently, PayPal has more than 200 petabytes of payment data, a competitive advantage with valuable information and potential to drive better commerce experiences for consumers and merchants,” he says.

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Dawn of a new day for Africa: building a modern digital economy

CIO

Africa has the natural advantage that largely, it is not saddled with expensive legacy IT systems. Rather, it has a “green field” IT landscape open to taking advantage of the very latest technological advancements and directly adopting innovations such as mobile payments, green energy, and global online commerce.

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8 Steps to Leveraging Analytics to Create Successful Ecommerce Stores

Smart Data Collective

How Can Your New Ecommerce Startup Take Advantage of Analytics Technology? You can figure out how to take the online market for your goods and services by storm by following our guide to creating an e-commerce store! Analytics is also incredibly important for managing your company’s finances.

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5 pitfalls to avoid when partnering with startups

CIO

Their unique focus and approaches to innovation can make startups a highly advantageous partner in delivering business value in ways traditional vendors can’t offer. To hedge against such risks, CIOs should maximize their organization’s brand power to their advantage. Startups often build new products and services using less cost.

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Sourced Group an Amdocs Company, empowers the growth of BaaS for Standard Chartered nexus

CIO

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is revolutionising the finance sector. When Indonesian e-commerce company Bukalapak wanted to provide their customers with access to financial services, they partnered with Standard Chartered to launch BukaTabungan, which is powered by Standard Chartered nexus (SC nexus) BaaS platform.

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

CIO

Plexus IT is also in the analysis phase of using AI within the company’s e-commerce platform “to gain better insights for predicting and optimizing the customer experience and enhancing personalization,” McIntosh says. “We We also see automation opportunities to eliminate many legacy manual and repetitive tasks.”

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Actionable Tips To Set Up an AI Tech Venture Abroad

Smart Data Collective

You can improve the likelihood that your AI startup will succeed by setting your company up abroad to take advantage of different markets and get access to quality talent. For example, e-commerce development and support companies can make it big in countries with a growing e-commerce niche. Get your finances in place.

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