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Did you realise it’s only 10 years since the iPhone was released?

Chris Skinner

Steve Jobs unveiled the new phone on January 9th, 2007. The first iPhones were made available to the grubby hands of the public on June 29th, 2007, exactly ten years ago today. This was originally just for American consumers with the UK, France, and Germany following in November 2007, and Ireland and Austria in the spring of 2008.

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Data Enablers: Neo Technology Off The Charts

PYMNTS

That’s Neo Technology’s specialty. The company created Neo4j — an open-source graph database technology that has become the world’s leading graph database — in 2007, and the technology now serves over 200 clients including eBay, Walmart, IBM, and NASA. PYMNTS: Why was the company founded?

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Preparing For the 7 Waves From The Fed Hike

South State Correspondent

This decision coincided with rate hikes by the Swiss National Bank, its first since 2007, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank announced at an emergency meeting that they would raise interest rates next month and again in September. The market, however, expects a higher year-end Fed Funds rate at 3.65%.

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Kia Rolls Out Connected Car Subscriptions Via Zuora Platform

PYMNTS

The markets for automotive software and electrical/electronic (E/E) components is anticipated to reach $465 billion between 2020 and 2030, up from $238 billion, according to the McKinsey report Mapping the Automotive Software-and-Electronics Landscape Through 2030. Kia picked Zuora due to its smooth user experience and flexibility.

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Google And Apple Are Getting Into The Digital Payment Market In Japan

PYMNTS

Alphabet , the parent of Google, is getting into the digital payments market in Japan, inking a deal with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) for its Android Pay platform. According to a report , which cited a person with knowledge of the matter, the move is designed to get into Japan’s fast-growing digital payments market.

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Turkey to be cashless by 2023

Chris Skinner

Nevertheless, from a financial markets point of view, it’s a fascinating place. Payments in Turkey, an ever-growing market… by Soner Canko, CEO of BKM Turkey, at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, has a banking sector that defies expectations. million POS machines in the market.

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Domino’s Mobile Order-Ahead 2.0: How Voice, 5G Can Deliver

PYMNTS

Nearly every chain now has an app presence, so it’s easy to forget that the technology was rare just 10 years ago. Former CEO Patrick Doyle even famously claimed that Domino’s was a technology company that happened to sell pizzas rather than a pizza chain. Leading the Mobile Ordering Charge . million in 2019.

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