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Payment-processing outages at UK retailers raise reliability issues for cashless transactions

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The problems at fast food restaurant McDonalds, supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and bakery chain Greggs, highlight retailers’ increasing reliance on third-party payment systems and the technical issues hampering a global shift from cash to digital payments. The larger the merchant, the more complex it could be.

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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

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Imagine a hacker compromising a healthcare database and simply changing the blood type of every individual in a research study or the entire patient population. Ransomware attacks Recall the ransomware hack on MGM Resorts International hotel reservation systems, digital room keys, casino gaming systems, and restaurant point-of-sale systems.

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Strategic planning: How CIOs can build the best possible future

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That’s not the problem today,” says Bruce Rogow, former vice president and global head of research for Gartner and a Gartner executive fellow for 26 years. My good friend Geoffrey Moore told me over breakfast at Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside, Calif., Organizations were reluctant to spend money on technology.

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Uber embraces the cloud with customized CPUs

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Ampere is an ARM processor architecture licensee, and cloud service providers AWS, Google, and Microsoft have also customized ARM-based CPUs, notes Shane Rau, research vice president for computing semiconductors at IDC. Uber was constrained by its on-premises infrastructure, the company wrote in a September 2022 blog post.

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How IT leaders are driving new revenue

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Sandwich-focused restaurant franchise Subway has some 37,000 locations worldwide, each of which faces a unique combination of factors, such as local competition and customer demographics, that impact sales and profitability. A 2022 report from Info-Tech Research Group revealed that supporting revenue growth was No.

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Using Analytics To Decide Which Cryptocurrency To Invest In

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Before you decide on just one or two, you should definitely do big research. For example, loads of different restaurants and shops are already accepting Bitcoin, but many of them do not want other cryptocurrencies. Read a lot and do your research. Most people choose Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, XRP, and a few other ones.

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What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

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billion in 2022, according to a research study published by The Insight Partners in August 2022. Hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality industry players can use the technology to forecast the number of guests on any given night in order to maximize occupancy and revenue. from 2022 to 2028.