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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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Lowes And b8ta Collaborate On Smart-Home Shopping

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According to a Lowe’s blog post on the subject, the Smart Home shops will include thermostats, cameras, lighting, speakers and more from brands like Google, Sonos, GE, Nest, Iris, Samsung and Ring. b8ta makes shopping for connected home products accessible and easy,” said Phillip Raub, co-founder and chief brand officer of b8ta.

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India’s Grand (Cashless) Experiment, One Year On

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In last year’s announcement of the country’s switch to cashless, Modi vowed to short circuit the vagaries of a cash-based economy that were — and still are, in some cases — rife with black market activities like counterfeiting. It is no wonder, then, that some heavy hitters in the corporate realm are gearing to boost efforts.

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Wayfair And Building For What’s Next In Commerce

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Selling furniture online isn’t easy work — though the team at Boston-based Wayfair might make it appear otherwise. The Boston-based firm has just come off another quarterly earnings report with a big jump in revenue — up 52 percent in Q3 — after a year of consistently beating analysts’ expectations. Navigate Widely.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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South Korea has 11 mobile payment services such as KakaoPay, Naver Pay and Samsung Pay, and around 28 million cards were loaded onto users’ smartphones in the second quarter. “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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Bronze: Samsung Rewards. Blake Hall, founder and CEO of ID.me — the firm that gook home gold for most disruptive company — told the assembled that “the whole market is bigger when you take the friction out of it.”. Best Debit Innovation. Bronze: PayNearMe. Silver: USAA. Gold: Chime. Best Newcomer. Bronze: Blispay. Silver: Flutterwave.

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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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