Many thanks for a great presentation by Sebastian Buss ECDB, pictured together with Manfred Wolff creditPass at the Marketplace Convention 2024 in Cologne. In the b2b marketplaces, Kaufland is one of the winners in terms of growth, followed by ABOUT YOU, Douglas, Refurbed and hood....
The German Retail Association (HDE) rates the Federal Ministry of Economics' action plan for e-commerce positively. The association believes that its repeated criticism of the current unfair competition with regard to online platforms such as Temu has been taken seriously and addressed. "The Federal Ministry of Economics...
If you want to send a letter, you no longer have to go to a post office or a post office machine to buy a stamp to stick on an envelope. Now all you have to do is reach for your smartphone. More and more people are...
Open WLANs in hotels, on the train or in restaurants are practical, but not necessarily secure: you never know what will happen to your data, which is why it is always recommended to use a VPN - either via your home network or a VPN...
The operators of the AI platform Hugging Face have presented the "Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard". The benchmark evaluates large language models (LLMs) according to how well they perform on healthcare issues. Hugging Face's motivation is that mistakes - LLMs tend to hallucinate - are of little...
The historical association of merchants was the inspiration for the name of the new platform, as was the famous quote from the science fiction novel series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. In response to existential questions, e.g. the meaning of life,...
As many of the readers of this news use SEPA credit transfers and SEPA instant transfers, this directly binding regulation could be relevant. this directly binding regulation could be relevant . Here, for example, Article 5b Charges for...
The core issue for our industry in 2024 is increasing our own efficiency. Even if it sounds banal: sales up, costs down. A weak propensity to consume and high inflation are putting pressure on overall performance, while costs continue to rise. The economies of scale...
The ECJ judges state that the activities of credit agencies, such as the creditworthiness score calculation based on data, are themselves an impermissible automated decision. The situation can be different if a manual individual check is still possible and the decision to accept the customer...
Everyone talks about ChatGPT - but it is much better to talk to ChatGPT, i.e. to write it yourself. The AI chatbot knows how to amaze with its answers: they not only sound natural, even human, but actually provide all kinds of useful knowledge. Sometimes...