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AUGUST 27, 2019

Menlo Park-based Enjoy Technology , the eCommerce startup led by Ron Johnson, former VP of retail operations for Apple, has raised an additional $150 million in Series C funding, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (Aug. Enjoy Technology operates in 54-plus U.S. markets and will be offered in 11 U.K. population.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For Big Tech, the bleeding may come from cuts, here and there, targeting individual agreements and operations. Vestager has said the injunctions would be more widely deployed as antitrust investigations continue into Google, Amazon and Apple, among others. “If As PYMNTS noted on Tuesday (Oct.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Can Oprah Winfrey help lead Apple to new frontiers of digital commerce? Or is the media mogul and longstanding promoter of reading merely another aid in Apple’s apparent ongoing quest to be more like Amazon? It also follows, by about a year or so, Apple’s rebranding of its iBook feature to Apple Books.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Can Oprah Winfrey help lead Apple to new frontiers of digital commerce? Or is the media mogul and longstanding promoter of reading merely another aid in Apple’s apparent ongoing quest to be more like Amazon? It also follows, by about a year or so, Apple’s rebranding of its iBook feature to Apple Books.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

But consolidation looms, according to some observers, and online food delivery services will eventually have to shift more focus away from consumers and toward restaurant operators in order to thrive in a crowded marketplace. Meanwhile, the eCommerce operator and logistics heavyweight continues investing in its delivery fleet.

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MARCH 25, 2019

The Apple event, heavy on subscription commerce offerings, took place at time when the company is trying to find more revenue from services given recent stumbles with iPhone sales — a move that seems to be pleasing at least some investors lately. Magazine Subscriptions. One selling point of this service?

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

If 2020 was the year of streaming media, of content done a million different ways, of apps and Apple, and Google’s and Amazon’s algorithms … it was also the year of Big Tech regulation, where 2020 set the stage for a 2021 that could be seismic in changing the way companies — from Facebook to Apple to debt collectors — interact with consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Yesterday Apple announced entering the payments space with Apple Pay, a new way to pay in physical stores and mobile apps. At Celent we also published a report in March this year called Apple in Payments: What to Expect? In fact, those devices are only limited today to the newly announced iPhone 6 models and the Apple Watch.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

After Halloween comes the lucrative holiday shopping season — sorry, Thanksgiving, but you’re only a speed bump — but there are serious questions about how happy the fourth quarter will be for some big eCommerce operators. Online spending will increase nearly 15 percent compared with last year, reaching $124.1 Apple Woes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

For Apple , there seems to be an increasing interest in its digital wallet, and how the firm is competing in the payments realm. The Commissioner also said, “People see that it becomes increasingly difficult to compete in the market for easy payments.”. Big Tech has gotten, is getting and will get its share of regulatory scrutiny.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Just in time for the holiday shopping spree — including Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday — online selling platform Etsy has announced it now accepts Apple Pay. The rollout won’t impact its markets everywhere, though. and across European markets. The company revealed Monday (Nov.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

continues to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations – same-day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said – as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. To get an online store running on Alibaba will reportedly cost U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

A new survey has found that big retailers like Apple and Nike are losing favor in China, as consumers are showing a preference towards local brands. Online payment operator Alipay, owned by an affiliate of Alibaba, topped the list, while food delivery service Meituan Dianping broke into the top 10 for the first time.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Amazon has overtaken Alphabet — Google ’s owner — as the company with the second-highest market value in America, as Google’s stock fell for the third consecutive day on Tuesday (March 20). As of now, Apple is the only company worth more than Amazon at nearly $900 billion.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Apple needs to watch its back: Amazon might just beat the world’s most valuable publicly listed company to the $1 trillion mark. While Reuters reports that Apple’s market capitalization has reached $893 billion – $141 billion more than the $752 billion market value of Amazon – the eCommerce giant has been quickly gaining steam.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Apple Card’s Big Launch. Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it. Andromeda was one of the oldest malwares on the market.

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MARCH 15, 2018

New rules loom in the European Union for tech giants like Apple , Amazon and Google, Reuters reported. The European Commission is at work on a new proposal that aims to shape how online platforms — spanning eCommerce and mobile apps — rank search results.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

It’s been nearly two years – 20 months to be precise — since it was launched after significant investments in engineering, marketing and promotion. This, everyone, is the Apple Pay story, 20 months post-launch. . We now have observations every quarter since the launch of Apple Pay.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Consumers reportedly have downloaded one million mini programs since their launch in early 2017 — that’s just less than half the size of the Apple App Store. According to one recent estimate , consumers globally in the third quarter of 2018 downloaded 29 million apps from Apple and Google app stores, up 10 percent year over year.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

While “reselling” or “secondary market” are more likely to keep ownership of this burgeoning market, the reselling market is reinventing itself for 2020. Nordstrom has not yet launched its online intake program where customers will have the ability to mail in merchandise. We like the handle.

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JUNE 15, 2017

The peer-to-peer (P2P) payments market has been getting crowded of late, and owners of iOS devices in the US will soon have a new option to choose from as part of the annual update to Apple’s mobile operating system. The post Apple takes on Venmo in P2P payments market appeared first on Banking.com.

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JULY 11, 2022

When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout. Fintech enthusiasts should also keep a close watch on Apple’s newly unveiled BNPL system, Apple Pay Later.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Goldman Extends $10B In Apple Card Credit In First Month. According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? Flywire Taps Former Apple Pay Exec As President, COO. The subscription commerce market has grown by more than 100 percent each year for the past five years. Trackers and Reports.

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JUNE 19, 2018

Fraudulent activity is 81 percent more likely to occur online than at the physical point of sale. The reality is, online I can go from store to store to store and can test the limits of that credit card in a very aggressive manner,” Mills said. The job is made tougher by the fact that markets vary by region.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

In today’s top news, Facebook is developing its own operating system to increase its independence, and PayPal is acquiring a 70 percent stake in China’s GoPay, making it the first foreign online-only payments platform to be licensed in China. Facebook Is Developing Its Own OS To Rival Google, Apple. PayPal Now Holds 70 Pct.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

I think in terms of market recognition, 2020 was the breakout year — [and] in terms of commercial adoption, 2021 will be more like it,” Harris said. The payments market has experienced a surge of new players, a number of them consisting of digital-first firms taking their first steps in payments processing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

The 2020 holiday shopping season is picking up, and consumers are heading online or to reopened brick-and-mortar stores to shop and pay for gifts. We do see people using instruments on for making a lot of repeat purchases, and we are also seeing increased usage of mobile wallets and things like Apple Pay and Google Pay,” she said. “I

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The question for Apple is: Will the slew of offerings announced this week be enough to bring new users into its ever-expanding ecosystem, and also keep current consumers, well, consuming? 15), Apple unveiled a slew of watches and services in a bid to give a tailwind to hardware sales and boost its services business. On Tuesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

Mastercard today announced the appointment of CIO Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology. Everyone likes to talk about the T in operations and technology,” McLaughlin said. That’s how it lives every day, everywhere — the consumer experience is the operation.”. India, for example, is a huge market for Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2021

Legislators in the European Union have informed Alphabet , Facebook , Apple and Amazon that they are open to delaying a potential hearing beyond Feb. The two proposals serve one purpose: to make sure that we, as users, have access to a wide choice of safe products and services online. 1, its initially scheduled date, Reuters reported.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Roughly one in every 10 consumers today uses voice-enabled devices and apps to browse, shop and buy goods online. In fact, the eCommerce operator is itself facing more competition for the smart home market. IKEA will certainly face brutal competition on its quest to be a player in the smart home market. IKEA Steps Up.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

Also, Apple is expected to see huge growth in its wearables goods, especially its AirPods, over the next four years. Apple Expected To See Booming Wearables Demand Through 2023. The International Data Corporation forecasted the worldwide “earwear” market to nearly double by 2023. and WeWork received $1.75 In the U.K.,

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs in the balance. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators. That’s the scoop as 2020 opens, with privacy skirmishes turning to full-scale war on browser cookies.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And Google wants a bigger piece — making a move that seems similar to a recent announcement from Apple. The search and online advertising provider reportedly is about to launch streaming games and gaming hardware, according to 9to5Google.com. The market is certainly attractive. Apple Move? Gaming Growth.

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