Rite Aid hit with a five-year freeze on facial recognition
Rite Aid has agreed to a five-year ban on using facial recognition technology for surveillance as part of a settlement with the US Federal Trade...
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FTC renews legal challenge to Microsoft’s $69B purchase of Activision
Two months after the US Federal Trade Commission stopped proceedings to block Microsoft’s $69 billion dollar acquisition of gaming studio Activision Blizzard, the federal agency...
Apple’s retail technology play
Apple Retail taught the company a great deal concerning the future of retail, and a quiet technology acquisition shows it intends to go with the...
Microsoft shuts down retail chain, takes $450M charge
Microsoft on Friday said it would close its chain of retail store and take a $450 million charge against earnings to account for the permanent...
Is 7-Eleven’s mobile app a way to minimize COVID exposure?
COVID-19, and the desire to avoid getting it, is already impacting mobile payments, especially NFC payments known as contactless. Those payments happen in-store, mere inches...
Apple and COVID-19 drive QR code innovation
QR codes were invented in 1994 by a Japanese auto parts company called Denso Wave. The idea was to enable the tracking of car parts...