Category Archives: Walmart

Walmart enlists Microsoft cloud in battle against Amazon

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Once a seemingly unstoppable retail juggernaut, Walmart’s been scrambling to define its digitally in this Amazon-defined era. This morning, the company announced that it’s struck a five-year deal with Microsoft, Amazon’s chief cloud competitor. These sorts of partnerships are a regular occurrence for AWS — in fact, it announced one with Fortnite maker Epic Games, […] Continue reading Walmart enlists Microsoft cloud in battle against Amazon→

Detecting Cloned Cards at the ATM, Register

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Much of the fraud involving counterfeit credit, ATM debit and retail gift cards relies on the ability of thieves to use cheap, widely available hardware to encode stolen data onto any card’s magnetic stripe. But new research suggests retailers and ATM operators could reliably detect counterfeit cards using a simple technology that flags cards which appear to have been altered by such tools. Continue reading Detecting Cloned Cards at the ATM, Register→

Security – it shouldn’t just be the jewel in your crown, but your partners and suppliers too

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Before you entrust sensitive data to any third party, your company needs to be sure the partner can and will keep it safe from attack.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
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Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise edition, snaps up Walmart as a customer

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 Workplace — Facebook’s bid to take on the Slack, Microsoft and the rest of the players in the market of business chat and collaboration — is getting a big push today by way of a significant customer win. The company has signed on Walmart, the retailing giant and the world’s biggest employer with 2.2 million employees on its books. Walmart is rolling out Workplace to… Read More Continue reading Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise edition, snaps up Walmart as a customer→

IBM, Kroger, Walmart and others team up to improve food safety with blockchains

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 IBM today announced that it is working with a consortium that includes Dole, Golden State Foods, Kroger, McCormick and Company, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Unilever and Walmart to bring the benefit of blockchains to the food supply chain.
IBM, just like most of its competitors in the public cloud computing space, has been working on various blockchain projects in the last few months.
Given the… Read More Continue reading IBM, Kroger, Walmart and others team up to improve food safety with blockchains→