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MAY 8, 2020

Now more than ever, people are counting on technology to help them make contactless payments, shop, and manage their finances without leaving the house,” said Sang Ahn, vice president and GM of Samsung Pay’s North America service business, in a statement. By early 2019, Samsung Pay’s international presence grew to six global regions.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

It wasn’t easy for Tim Cook to get Apple Pay into China, but his company was finally able to make that vision a reality last week (Feb. Now, however, new details have surfaced as to why China’s banks were finally ready to jump on the Apple Pay bandwagon. What the sources indicate is that Apple will get.07 In the U.S.,

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

European tech firm Aave is rolling out its Aave Pay app, online travel firm Cleartrip has brought Apple Pay to its mobile app in Saudi Arabia and Elavon has been selected by Canada’s Jetlines for payment services. And, in Saudi Arabia , online travel firm Cleartrip has brought Apple Pay to its mobile app, TradeArabia reported.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

Also, Apple will be embracing paying for Apple products on installment. Apple Embraces Paying On Installment. Apple plans to be working hard going forward to make both its iPhone products and its wearables more accessible to its shoppers — if they happen to have received the new Apple credit card. even earlier.

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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. Apple’s iPhone X woes continue as manufacturers struggle to perfect the 3D sensors that would enable one of the smartphone’s most-hyped selling points: facial recognition.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

A certain amount of intellectual satisfaction — irony, perhaps — came from the conference call Wednesday (July 31) for Apple ’s latest earnings report. In it, CEO Tim Cook credited much of Apple Pay’s recent growth to its increasing use in mass transit. Visit a major U.S. OK, that might be an exaggeration. Contactless Visions.

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

While noting corporate exits from Silicon Valley, the Journal also pointed out that the five counties that comprise the region remain home to a hugely disproportionate share of the countries' technology company headquarters. But even Apple Inc., the Journal notes, has been expanding its presence in Austin.

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It’s not just the technology industry that is constantly evolving – many other industries must also remain adaptable to the changing landscape of the American consumer. It’s a big job to keep up with the Apples of the world. An innovation like that can make the Apple Watch and Bitcoin seem archaic in comparison.

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MAY 21, 2019

Commuters in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington can now add a digital Hop Fastpass card to their iPhone or Apple Watch, thanks to an alliance between Mastercard and Apple. We’re thrilled to bring our technology to solve new problems, and by doing so hope to take some of the frustration out of the daily commute.”

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Here’s the latest news for Big Tech’s Google , Amazon , Apple and Facebook , which are coming under increasing scrutiny from legislators and regulators the world over. In addition, the legislation would make sellers pay a third of commissions to a dedicated training fund for technology specialists each quarter. Regulation.

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MAY 5, 2017

The ecosystem was treated to a tale of two Apple Watches this week — and one wonders where the truth is, here, too. The first story was about the Apple Watch being a sizzle — a running theme throughout Apple’s latest earnings release. The Purge — Apple Watch Edition. Well, they might have been. If they had noticed.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

USA Technologies (USAT), the payment technology provider of cashless and mobile transactions in self-serve retail, announced Wednesday (Feb. 8) agreements with several Pepsi Cola bottling franchisees throughout North and South Carolina to use USAT’s cashless payment technologies within their existing inventory of vending machines.

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JUNE 16, 2017

Netclearance , provider of the world’s biggest network of smart technology Bluetooth payment terminals, unveiled the world’s first commercially available Bluetooth 5 payment beacon. While it offers better range, lower power and faster speeds, the smart technology is fully backward-compatible with previous generations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Yesterday, that was Apple, who managed to beat analyst estimates on every number that matters as its fiscal fourth-quarter numbers hit the wires. They also managed to surprise those analysts, since Apple was widely expected to post lackluster iPhone sales due to the somewhat unusual 2017 device rollout schedule. Apple notched $52.6

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MARCH 21, 2016

Apple's newest iPhone, a throwback to the smaller models it sold in previous years, is designed to maintain Apple Pay's momentum as it lands in new regions.

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JULY 13, 2015

Industry, especially the financial industry, has become packed with insightful and time saving technologies. In a recent Sageworks webinar, 60 percent of attendees said that one of their main road blocks to adopting new technology at their firm was their unfamiliarity with potential solutions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

Bank of America (BoA) has expanded its mobile wallet use to include corporate customers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions, hoping to enhance clients’ experiences through faster and more secure business transactions, according to a press release. In 2018, BoA launched digital wallets in the U.S.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Amid a change for Foxconn Technology Group, the iPhone will reportedly enter mass production in India, as the country has become the fastest-growing market for smartphones around the globe. and Huawei Technologies Co., Demand has been declining in China for Apple products partly due to the large price tag. Bloomberg reported.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The region also experiences some of the highest fraud rates, in both finance and eCommerce. percent of web-sourced revenue in the region is lost to fraud, according to CyberSource. The company has the goal of finding and nurturing new technology companies. percent, and is expected to be a $102 billion eCommerce market by 2025.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Qualcomm and Apple continue their legal battles. According to Bloomberg Technology , San Diego-based Qualcomm filed the suits in a Beijing intellectual property court to hinder Apple’s business in the world’s largest market for smartphones. The Greater China region accounted for 22.5 percent of Apple’s $215.6

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MAY 10, 2016

But, of course, no two consumers are exactly alike – especially when comparing consumers across different regions of the world. “The overarching goal of the study is to start comparing consumer trends in order to start predicting consumer behaviors in terms of how technology is influencing payments adoption.”

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APRIL 23, 2019

Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent has invested in Argentinian mobile banking startup Uala, according to a report from Reuters. There has been a lot of interest from China toward the Latin American region, with companies like Didi Chuxing , Huawei and Baidu all looking for investments in the area.

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MARCH 26, 2020

The competitive landscape, she told PYMNTS, shifted “the moment that the banks and Apple ended up on a stage together [for Apple Pay].” As Davis noted, larger banks, including regional players, tend to have their own technology platforms — and direct integrations into their own networks — to enable mobile and contactless payments. “The

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JULY 30, 2019

Technology giants Apple , Microsoft and Google are teaming up with a number of healthcare providers to test out the CARIN Blue Button API. The technology will be tested this year by participating companies, including certain BlueCross/BlueShield providers, the State of Washington, and Apple, Google and Microsoft.

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Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

With the development of innovative payment technology and commercial applications, UnionPay International is accelerating building up its innovative payment technology and service capacity, and promoting the digitalization of its card-based business, to support the development of mobile payment,” Jianbo said.

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JUNE 18, 2020

In a region where 80 percent of transactions are still carried out in cash, penetration remained low, and digital payments remained a tough sale. Now, the technology is launching in time for the upswing in eCommerce caused by the pandemic. “We But those terminals, he noted, were often an expensive integration.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Other nations in the region have also pulled back on their issues with VoIP providers in recent years. Last year, there were reports that Microsoft and Apple were talking with the UAE’s government about lifting the ban on Skype and FaceTime. Of course, technology also brings with it security concerns.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Apple, Fitbit, Garmin, Pebble, Jawbone all have a stake in the game, while Microsoft may have lost its standing with the removal of the Band from online shelves. Technology has evolved in looking at microfluidics, nanotechnology and miniaturized electronics to monitor sweat molecules in real time. Eccrine Systems, Inc. just raised $5.5

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JUNE 30, 2016

Apple Pay — 20 Months In. It’s been 20 months since Apple Pay launched. How many consumers use Apple Pay? Well, Apple isn’t so keen on sharing those numbers. 34 percent said they rarely consider using Apple Pay – a finding that is now consistent over the last two quarters. . • How often do they use it?

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The app will be available on the App Store for iPhones in Q2 of 2020, and additional accessibility and regional availability will come in the future. Also, Apple is working with other companies to launch virtual reality glasses later this year. According to the J.D. Power 2018 U.S.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Engagement platform Personetics also secured $85M from Thoma Bravo Digital banking provider Apiture announced a fundraising round led by Live Oak Bank, Pinnacle Bank, and BHG Financial Digital banking provider Backbase raised $128.6M Payments: Still Hot for Teacher (Wait, Song or Not, Can We Still Say That?).

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APRIL 23, 2019

While the company taps into technology that pre-populates many deals in the application form, clients who already have credit cards through the bank will have a less extensive form to fill out. They can then add their cards to wallets from Google Pay, Samsung Pay and Apple Pay.

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MAY 11, 2017

rehabilitation and growth has lagged behind the rest of the world, youth unemployment in the region continues to grow, political unrest is destabilising the continent, the progressive socio-economic pledge of Europe is being challenged and vitally, Europe has failed to develop any new corporate global powers for the digital age.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The move comes as part of a larger targeting of Southeast Asian markets, according to TechCrunch , starting with beginning selected regional services in Singapore in the first quarter of 2017. Southeast Asia certainly has the population Amazon seeks in its international investments: The region is home to over 600 million consumers.

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JUNE 2, 2016

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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