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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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Loop-Powered Samsung Pay Launches

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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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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. Samsung Pay provides gift cards from Dunkin’ Donuts, and users earn money with its own rewards prepaid card. But security is an ever-present concern.

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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., 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. million lunches over the past year. San Francisco and Miami.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. Back in 1870, it took days to get cash from Boston to San Francisco through a combination of railroads and horseback. Samsung has introduced the Tizen operating system, initially for mobile phones, but then also for wearables.

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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. It is created around the idea that smart home devices should be seamless, reliable and secure.

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