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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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Smart home products simplify life — but the technology can sometimes be confusing or intimidating. 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.

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

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free report: Technology and Shipping. The recent news highlights how autonomous technology is quickly changing the massive shipping industry. The technology will be used for initiatives like creating a virtual replica of a ship cockpit for land-based training and simulations. It is expected to be completed in 2020.

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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. We spotted founder Will Grayling on the CBS Evening News last night demoing the technology at a Manhattan retailer. Samsung Pay will be preloaded on Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Galaxy Note 5.

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

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On the heels of demonetization, the Ministry of Information Technology said earlier this month that digital transactions will grow 80 percent year on year into 2018, and the monthly average volume stands at around RS 137 crore, compared to 87 in the month before demonetization last November.

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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. billion won from the previous quarter.

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And The Payments And Commerce Innovation Winners Are…

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Bronze: Samsung Rewards. Allison Guidette, winner of the Women Driving Innovation in Payments award, dedicated her win to all the woman who will develop the technologies of the future. And now, with all the awards given out and the innovators departing Boston with their hardware in hand, the real work begins. Bronze: PayNearMe.