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PFS Cardholders Can Now Make Purchases With Samsung Pay

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Samsung, the South Korean consumer electronics giant, announced Thursday (March 20) a partnership with Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) to launch Samsung Pay for its branded cards. In a press release , Samsung said cardholders on specific programs issued and managed by PFS in the U.K. can now enable Samsung Pay.

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Samsung Pay: From Mobile Payment Method To Commerce Enabler

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Two years ago, when Samsung Pay entered the mobile payments scene, it did what Apple and Android a year before it had not: It made mobile payment capabilities at the physical point of sale (POS) more or less ubiquitous right out of the gate. That’s where Ahn said Samsung Pay’s more than 1,500 U.S. s VP and GM for the U.S.

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar

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Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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Coolest Brands 2016: MasterCardMaking Payments Happen in the IoT

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Welcome, to MasterCard, one of the coolest brands in banking. And what if that payment network was launched in — gasp! — in 1966? It is when that payment network is gamely inventing internet of things payments on the fly. Read More.

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Tech Firms Create Working Group For Smart Home Connectivity

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To create and promote the adoption of a new royalty-free connectivity standard to make smart home products more compatible with security as a design tenet, Amazon, Google, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance unveiled a new working group. It is created around the idea that smart home devices should be seamless, reliable and secure.

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Essential Phone Is Now Available For Sale

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In a blog post announcing the launch of the mobile phone that is aimed at taking on Apple and Samsung, Rubin said that, although the company is “up against industry giants that employ tens of thousands of workers to develop and deploy smartphones around the world,” it is focused solely on the consumer.

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The Big Voice Showdown In Vegas

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Among the highlights were Alexa’s smart TV expansion – particularly into models made by LG and Samsung. The integration with Samsung was a bit of a head turner, given that the South Korean electronics firm has been a holdout when it comes to offering Alexa or Google Assistant on its TVs, since it has its own assistant, Bixby.

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