eBay, Stripe, and Mastercard drop out of Facebook’s Libra association

Oof — a week after PayPal announced plans to part ways with Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project and the related association of the same name, three more names are reportedly breaking away: eBay, Stripe, and Mastercard. In a comment to TechCrunch, a Stripe spokesperson says: “Stripe […]

ATG Will Use IBM’s Watson to Improve Booking ExperienceBIG Data

Travel management company ATG is leveraging the natural language processing, information retrieval, automated reasoning and machine learning capabilities of IBM’s Watson Assistant to deliver booking recommendations, based on the traveler’s past bookings, via chatbot and voice command. “I’ve always found online booking to be tedious,” […]