Samsung has been granted a patent for smart contact lenses with a built-in camera that activates when you blink.

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Banks are using new biometric technologies to detect which customers are about to scam them.

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I have been interested for quite some time now about the importance of two-factor authentication – 2FA – (or two-step authentication).

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Last year, Samsung began to focus in emerging markets on just few lines of aggressively-priced smartphones—which boast some of the same features of its premium devices—in a bid to regain global market share.

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Germany prospered in recent years by exporting to emerging countries. Now the slowdown in emerging markets is leaving Germany, and Europe, vulnerable.

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Two former State Street executives have been charged in Massachusetts with defrauding clients.

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There’s no money in social commerce, according to a recent study. Turns out that wasn’t news to retailers. Why, then, do so many brands put so much of their assets towards social media?

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Two very different companies — Amazon and, oddly, Cadillac — are pulling the retail fashion industry in competing directions.

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WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption to all of its messages – meaning that the company couldn’t give information to governments, even if it wanted to.

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Circle, the social payments app that runs on bitcoin’s blockchain, launched with support from Barclays as part of a new partnership.

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