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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Travel commerce and payments firm CellPoint Digital and the airline-owned payment network UATP are in a deal with Southwest to let customers buy tickets and other services using Apple Pay, CellPoint said in a press release on Wednesday (Sept. We are obviously thrilled and honored to deliver this solution for these two iconic brands.”

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APRIL 23, 2019

In technology, especially when it comes to consumer-focused technology, Apple is viewed as a disruptive force. but Apple has made itself indispensable across many verticals. The digital card will be linked to Apple Pay. Apple Card is set to be available starting this summer. A New Normal? The Incentives Question.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Months after Apple CEO Tim Cook said CVS would be accepting Apple Pay, the retailer has brought support for the mobile wallet to stores across the country. “Get your essentials in a flash,” Apple said in a marketing email, according to the outlet. . locations to speed up shopping trips for its customers.

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JUNE 14, 2018

And though this market presents brands with a large audience of potential customers, will digitally native millennials tune in to a shopping network? The mobile game show HQ Live Trivia, already counts up to two million participants per game. That jackpot can reach $10,000 — or higher. Attracting Millennials.

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MAY 31, 2019

Margaret Keane, the CEO of Synchrony Financial, the biggest provider of store credit cards, said the card industry will be keeping a close watch on how Goldman Sachs handles its partnership with Apple in regards to the newly announced Apple Card. Co-branded cards, as all payments professionals know, have been around for decades.

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MAY 24, 2019

Shoppers can then check out using a credit card, debit card, Apple Pay or health savings account (HSA) / flexible spending account (FSA) at launch. The whole experience can be completed on their mobile phone. The Custom Eyeglass Market. Fitz Frames offers prescription glasses, blue light glasses and sunglasses. Solving Glasses.

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JULY 3, 2019

On the heels of its Canadian launch last year, Adyen announced the addition of Interac Debit on Mobile for in-browser and in-app as a payment method for Canadian merchants. AVP Retail Payments Nader Henin said that the company was excited to work with Adyen, which has a strong record of quickly bringing brands to market.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

CellPoint Mobile, which specializes in digital commerce and payment solutions for airlines and travel companies, today rebranded as CellPoint Digital with a new website and product offerings, the company said in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. We started out with a radical, mobile-first solution.

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MARCH 2, 2018

The worldwide wearables market hit new highs last year, with Apple moving past competitors Fitbit and Xiaomi to take the top spot. Instead, we saw numerous vendors, relying on older models, exit the market altogether. Interest in smartwatches continues to grow, and Apple is well-positioned to capture demand,” added Llamas.

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APRIL 10, 2019

With more consumers than ever interested in fulfilling all their financial needs on mobile, both legacy banks and FinTech firms are focusing on creating digital-only banking services, designed to catch and keep customers using their smartphones to bank. An Inside Look at Chase’s Mobile Banking Approach.

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MAY 18, 2018

There is no shortage of direct-to-consumer mattress brands as mattress sales move from brick-and-mortar retail to eCommerce. One brand, though, saw a market opportunity as brands like Casper and Leesa took off. But the brands currently on the market were a useful learning experience for Nectar.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Mobile Cards: Make or Break? One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers. Follow the Smart(phone) Crowd.

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JULY 3, 2019

On the heels of its Canadian launch last year, Adyen announced the addition of Interac Debit on Mobile for in-browser and in-app as a payment method for Canadian merchants. AVP Retail Payments Nader Henin said that the company was excited to work with Adyen, which has a strong record of quickly bringing brands to market.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In a little over a week, the festivities will officially kick off in Cupertino’s Apple Park Headquarters as industry followers, Apple fans, tech enthusiasts and journalists crowd into the Steve Jobs Theater (or around their favorite live-streamed screen) for Apple’s annual fall event. billion in revenue as opposed to the $26.31

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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. At launch, the service was positioned as an innovative replacement for a well-entrenched standard considered not well-suited for a mobile and digital world.

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JUNE 17, 2016

It’s a question that USA Technologies, a leader in digitizing payments for unattended retail , wanted answered with respect to the use of mobile payments to buy goodies in vending machines. As they say, survey says … it does … and for a very particular mobile payments provider: Apple Pay. Spend Big, Go Mobile.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Apple got pushed out of the number two spot in terms of smartphone shipments for the second quarter of 2018, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). million units, and record high market shares of 15.8 Meanwhile, Apple shipped 41.3 percent decline year-over-year. Huawei had shipments of 54.2

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Another year, another chance for mobile wallet players to convince consumers to give up their plastic cards and utilize the phone as a payments form factor. The most-used mobile wallet in the U.S. Mobile adoption in the U.S. In comparison to a market like China’s, it’s glacial. It hasn’t been easy. percent to be exact).

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JULY 27, 2020

Time to market is key, and that’s where sticky.io Helping brands launch their DTC and subscription businesses with the flexibility to sell how their customers want to buy – and fast – is the future of digital commerce.”. Startup brands are taking advantage, and established players are catching up. is investing.

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MAY 14, 2018

More than 1,700 industry execs descending on the Vegas Cosmopolitan getting mobile alerts like “Open Bar in the Exhibit Hall.” Even industry print veteran Harland Clarke was largely talking about supporting digital with direct marketing, fulfillment and call center support. What could possibly go wrong? Digital First Now!

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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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MARCH 30, 2017

App Annie, the research firm, is predicting Apple will lose its first place position over Android, based on revenue from mobile apps during 2017. are expected to represent 85 percent of the global consumer spend in 2021, while emerging markets, particularly India, Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia, will drive downloads in mobile app stores.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

In the latest bit of Apple Pay expansion news, Macquarie Group and ING Direct have announced that they will start using Apple Pay in Australia this month. Apple Pay has had something of a bumpy lift off down under — only one major Australian bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, has adopted the Apple Pay system.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

Apple is like a glamorous celebrity who seems to have it all together but, beneath the shimmering screen of makeup and high fashion, is actually falling apart. The true pulse of Apple’s health as a company will not be revealed until the iPhone X hits the scene next month. Assault of Battery. Two reports came out of the U.K.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

The company is going the way of Nike, Apple, Shell and Target by eschewing the use of type in its logo, instead relying on its iconic image to remind users of the company. You can never be arrogant and say ‘I’m iconic, and let me go ahead and drop my brand name,’” he said. The trick is you can’t fast-forward that process, really.”.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Mobile represents roughly 60 percent of all digital restaurant orders today, the PYMNTS Mobile-Order Ahead Tracker found. With the growing popularity of mobile ordering, the report notes that “the race to see which apps customers will choose is getting only more competitive.” DoorDash is valued at $7.1

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

Apple CarPlay , the IoT integration that allows drivers to link their access their smartphone to a vehicle’s dashboard screen or voice control, is now available in over 200 vehicle models. In all, 35 vehicle brands now or will soon have CarPlay features in one or more of their models. Another day, another IoT expansion.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As one year anniversary of Apple Pay approaches, banks have to make more decisions about their mobile payments strategy. Should a bank just stick with Apple Pay or enable their cards with all the “pays”? The answer is that banks have to view their mobile payments strategy holistically. Watch this space!

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In a potential challenge to Apple at brick-and-mortar retail, Samsung Electronics is looking to move beyond pop-up shops with its own full-scale U.S. 20, which is the day that the brand is expected to announce a foldable phone and the Galaxy S10, Apple Insider reported. The company will reportedly open three stores on Feb.

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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Amazon holds the dominant edge in the market for smart speakers, as about 70 percent of people in the U.S. Some will be going with other speaker brands — there was 31.7 percent will be using another brand, such as the Apple HomePod, Harmon Kardon Invoke or Sonos One. 9) by eMarketer. Last year, the figure was 72.9

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In addition, Razer ’s mobile wallet dubbed Razer Pay may come to tens of thousands of point-of-sale (POS) terminals in Singapore , and a Worldpay study has found that consumers in Singapore still prefer to make payments with credit cards over eWallets. At the same time, only 13 percent of adult smartphone users in the U.S.

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JULY 23, 2020

But regardless of how the business works, don’t call the products of Misfits Market ugly. There’s the excess and then there’s the rest of the produce that doesn’t make the cut,” Ramesh, Misfits Market’s founder and CEO, tells PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. It’s anything that is nonstandard. It’s anything that is nonstandard.

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APRIL 30, 2018

China’s smartphone market saw its largest decline in terms of shipments during the first quarter as competition heated up, pushing Apple into fifth place. The Chinese smartphone market initially surpassed the current shipment volume back in the fourth quarter of 2013, noted the research firm.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Only a diamond can cut a diamond, as the adage goes, and a bit of friction can help brands sharpen up. Apple Vs. Huawei. Apple , by all accounts, had a very good week last week. The report also found that Huawei landed in second place, having knocked Apple down to third. million units, and record-high market shares of 15.8

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MAY 9, 2016

Not many companies can lay claim to losing as much value in 12 months as the entire market cap of the world’s largest retailer and still remain standing. But that’s exactly what’s happened to Apple over the last 12 months. Apple has subtracted $234 billion from its market cap – about $20 billion more than Walmart is worth. .

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JULY 8, 2020

Pharmacy titan Walgreens is accepting payments via Alipay’s platform, and news just broke this week that tech giant Apple is activating QR code functionality for Apple Pay. For example, PayPal introduced QR codes in May to 28 markets worldwide, with transaction fees waived for QR code sales. “We

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