A seven-year-old British cargo ship might seem an unlikely vessel on which to carry all these weighty concerns, but Pollak makes ingenious use of merchant shipping as a starting point to discuss terrorism's many dark harbors.
LaDy is based on the use of Merchant's adaptive geographic window, which is designed to operate on a neighborhood of patches instead of a fixed rectangular neighborhood of pixels (the conventional approach in image analysis).
Top level EU competition law has not touched on the social media axis of big tech yet, with the Commission concentrating recent attention on mobile chips (Qualcomm); and mobile and ecommerce platforms (mostly Google; but Amazon's use of merchant data is in its sights too); as well as probing Apple's tax structure in Ireland.
With the rules configured, the merchants only need to review those orders that are flagged by the rules thus making the best use of the merchant's manpower in an efficient and cost saving manner.
Those cards may have been used on dozens of merchants' sites who didn't figure this out".
Clinton specifically requests diplomats to promote the use of PCASP on "merchant vessels transiting the high-risk waters off the Horn of Africa, in addition to other counter-piracy measures".
"We 23 million tips and ratings to date that we've predominantly used for the benefit of merchants," Dan Roarty, VP of Marketplace, told me in an interview.
Currently, there are 'thousands' of merchants using Kabbage and Gorlin expects for the total merchandise volume of Kabbage sellers to reach $3 billion in the next year.
The system is currently being used by a number of merchants including Jane.com, ParkWhiz, StubHub, Threadless, Airbnb, Lyft and Munchery, for example.
And almost 70% of merchants used services that check a card's unique verification number, which theoretically verifies that the purchaser is holding the actual card in their hand.
