PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Technology enthusiasts draw pictures on whiteboards showing bots as the new king of the stack, out-stacking the last great stack — apps, which sit on top of the next-to-last great stack — mobile operating systems, which sit on top of the next-to-next-to-last great stack — the web. So, what gives?

Bots

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

A computer science student reported using an API from peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payments service Venmo to download — without users’ permission — the details of approximately 7 million transactions over six months in 2018, for example. Weaknesses in the technology’s handling have already resulted in major abuses, too. percent of U.S.

API

PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Messenger is using bots to bring commerce inside of its messaging app where consumers are responding to friends and could be prompted to take an action, including ordering an Uber to meet them for a drink after work. If I was missing an ingredient, I would have done just that. (OK, That’s too much like work.

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

In each of the instances that I described here, the contextual platform is an app or software that can go anywhere the consumer takes it on their mobile device, one that is enabled by secure digital account credentials that flow with that context.”. “ Find a developer and let them grab Messenger’s bot API.

Online and Mobile Banking