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Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App Landscape

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Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Samsung May Beat Android Pay And Apple Pay In Tapping The African Market.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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NanoPay is finding that for mobile payments to take off, even among early adopters, using a phone to pay must be much more rewarding and convenient than tapping a card. “You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International.

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And The Payments And Commerce Innovation Winners Are…

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PricewaterhouseCoopers — after 83 consecutive years of tabulating the Academy Awards without incident — managed to accidentally put the wrong card in Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway’s hands for the Best Picture award and … well the rest is YouTube history. PwC is now called Probably Wrong Card!”. Bronze: Samsung Rewards.

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A Subscription Plan To Beat (And Join) The Lunch Crowd?

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The service is available in several major metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., It also just expanded internationally into the London market. Biggins explained how she initially encouraged restaurants to join the MealPal platform by conducting a series of tests at a Fresh Market location in Boston.

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Apple’s In-Store Story, Android Pay Goes Wearable And Samsung Open For Business In Thailand

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Samsung’s global march added another stopping point this week, as Thailand became the latest nation to come online for Samsung Pay. That announcement comes as most of the global payments-watching community was watching Samsung Pay’s imminent foray into India. Samsung Pay In Thailand. merchants to 36 percent of U.S.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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When anyone talks about two-sided markets, two-sided networks, platforms or the sharing economy, they are really talking about multisided businesses. Their platform just isn’t creating enough value — solving a big enough market friction — to get any momentum. They all follow the same principles and face the same challenges.

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The Week In Payments: Acquisitions, Partnerships And A Team Of Rivals Unite Over Standards

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The world of B2B payments saw its latest significant acquisition play this week with Boston-based private equity firm Great Hill announcing its intention to acquire VersaPay, a company that provides cloud-based invoice-to-cash solutions. The B2B Receivables Revolution . Great Hill will be buying VersaPay — and paying a fair premium.

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