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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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02.22.18 Your morning briefing

Payments Source

Today: Venezuela's virtual currency debuts; Crowdsourcing for Square readers in Boston; Tinder's security gap; Samsung Pay gains ground in Australia. The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web.

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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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Loop-Powered Samsung Pay Launches

Fintech Labs Insights

Featuring technology from Finovate Best of Show winner LoopPay , Samsung’s Samsung Pay mobile payment service is on its way. Samsung’s decision to acquire LoopPay in February for $250 million was a clear sign that the company stepping up to the challenge of Apple’s mobile payment technology, Apple Pay.

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

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Samsung Pay announced it had added 1 million users in the country between the middle of September and the end of October, achieving a total of 2.5 It is no wonder, then, that some heavy hitters in the corporate realm are gearing to boost efforts. million users since its launch in March of this year.

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Massive Cargo Ships Are Going Autonomous. Here Are The Companies & Trends Driving The Global Maritime Industry Forward.

CB Insights

Samsung & AWS: In early August, major shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (a subsidiary of Samsung) announced that it’s using Amazon’s AWS cloud services to build an autonomous shipping platform. From corporates. The platform will enable the self-piloting of container ships.

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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.

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