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Samsung: Wearables Sales Soared 30 Pct In 2020

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Wearable device sales have shot up at least 30 percent this year as consumers looked to technology to help them monitor their health during the ongoing global pandemic, according to a top Samsung executive. Samsung will continue to invest in these advanced technologies.”. Samsung will face strong competition from Apple.

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Verizon And Samsung Target 2019 For U.S. Release Of 5G Smartphones

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Verizon and Samsung announced on Monday (Dec. The move would essentially beat Apple to the market with smartphones featuring 5G technology, because reports say that Apple is going to wait until 2020 to release the first iPhones featuring the tech. 3) that they would launch U.S. ”

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Singapore’s Mobile Payments Market Appeal

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While the goal of Apple, Samsung or Google is all about getting consumers to pay via a phone (or watch), the fact that consumers are getting familiar with the tap and pay at the POS habit — and that it’s increasingly available at the places they like to shop — is what these players hope is an important first step toward mobile payments the NFC way.

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Amazon Sets Sights On Southeast Asia

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So while online retail accounts for about 5 percent of Southeast Asian commerce today, the region’s internet economy is poised to grow tremendously by 2025, with a projected annual worth of over $200 billion. But Amazon isn’t waiting until 2025, or even 2020. And what better place to wait than Singapore?

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To Flip or Not to Flip: Why Are Payment Card Issuers Still Asking This Question?

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had in 2011, they’re likely to see an 18% to 25% volume shift from signature to PIN card transactions by the end of 2025. FIs fought to get to 20% Apple Pay utilization for years – you know, the other product they had to have and then no one used it until, well, COVID? While banks won’t immediately feel the effects that Durbin 1.0

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How 5G Will Shake Up Banking and FinTech?

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As PYMNTS reported earlier in December, Verizon and Samsung plan launch U.S. The move would essentially beat Apple to the market with smartphones featuring 5G technology, because reports say that Apple is going to wait until 2020 to release the first iPhones featuring the tech. 5G Deployments. So where is all this 5G?

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What Digital ID Will Mean For Daily Life In 2020 And Beyond

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According to one estimate , the global biometrics market is estimated to be worth $59 billion by 2025.

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