PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments.

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NCR

JANUARY 9, 2018

It has now been announced that another brand is being added to the payments marketplace, albeit one that brings together existing services. Google confirmed this week that it is consolidating the various facilities it offers to enable payments – including Android Pay and Google Wallet – into a single brand: Google Pay.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 3, 2023

Traditionally, bank and credit union card issuers have benefitted financially from the fierce competition between the Visa and Mastercard brands. Yet is now really the time to contemplate an unnecessary brand flip to chase an incentive dollar that may not even exist in 24 months? A brand change can have a huge impact on a bank.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

In the last month, a host of tech giants ranging from Uber to Samsung partnered with emerging payment solutions to get a foot up on the competition. UPI’s partnership with one of the most popular ridesharing services in India and worldwide is a major step toward building its nascent brand. The latest in the PaaS world.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In a press release , Bank of America said its corporate cards are now compatible with mobile wallets including Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay, citing business travelers’ mobile payment needs as a stop motivation behind the initiative. Last year, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The floor of CES was once again flooded with smart devices, created to make everything from personal grooming to household management to the daily commute a smoother and more seamless experience for consumers through the power of connection. And, of course, Alexa and Google weren’t the only players to take the stage.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

To reach consumers on the hunt for offerings that are “clean and natural,” the retail chain rolled out its Everspring household brand. Reportedly, Target research has shown that these consumers aren’t as loyal to specific brands as older shoppers. So-called Generation Z is also driving much of the innovation when it comes to retail.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

Existing investors include Cisco Investments, Samsung, BHLP, Atomico, Dawn Capital and Advance Vixeid Partners. The company noted that during the past 12 months it inked partnerships with global packaging companies Avery Dennison Retail Branding and Information Solutions (RBIS), Crown Holdings and WestRock.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Samsung Electronics’ shipments declined to less than half of what the company shipped in the first quarter of 2017. But the costs of marketing and channel management in a country as big as China are huge, and only vendors that have reached a certain size can cope.”. However, the vendor is struggling to shed its low-cost image.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

. “This investment will also help us to more quickly add new retailers and brands who want to use eyeQ to reinvent the in-store shopping experience.”. With fresh funding under its belt, the company is now also adding Lisa Harris, managing partner of Align Capital, to its board of directors.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Instead, these players are focusing on specific niches, brand strategies and community connections to differentiate themselves. For these institutions, digital strategy should be focused on a disciplined allocation of resources and a management team obsessed with understanding performance, competition and the voice of the digital customer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

According to the report, the Pixpay app “will help with spending and saving management, providing real-time purchase notifications and analysis of where money goes, along with offers on popular brands.” The app is also designed to teach the younger generation about money management and financial responsibility. Banking App.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Think Android Pay and Samsung Pay. Android Pay has been around longer; Samsung Pay has nearly twice its adoption rate, according to the PYMNTS/InfoScout Mobile Wallet Usage figures. Device makers customized their products to push their own proprietary mobile apps and services that would compete with and crowd out Google’s equivalents.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

In any case, self-driving cars are no longer a sci-fi idea, and at CES, experts from Samsung, Waymo and other companies will talk about how 5G and public policy will help shape the coming self-driving future. The future of money and security also stand as relevant topics associated with blockchain and cryptocurrency.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Only a diamond can cut a diamond, as the adage goes, and a bit of friction can help brands sharpen up. Earnings were strong — particularly in the services department — and the company managed to make it over the finish line and become America’s first trillion-dollar publicly listed firm. So, who got sharpened this week?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Like its $310 million purchase of Bonobos, buying Blue Apron would repeat Walmart’s playbook of acquiring a branded eCommerce startup with a more premium product to its core offerings,” said Matthew Trusz, equity research analyst of Gabelli & Company, to investors. Two years later, Google unloaded Motorola to Lenovo for $2.9 billion.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

As observed in the inaugural edition of the Digital Consumer Report , a PYMNTS and Samsung Pay collaboration, the underlying concept of AR/VR has been floating around for over a decade. Among Samsung’s current pushes into the virtual world is an app created in collaboration with cosmetic brands Sephora and CoverGirl.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

But then so is Amazon, which has gone from the internet’s favorite bookstore to everyone’s favorite everything store — and managed to knock Walmart from the top retailer perch when it comes to market cap. The law would also ban Amazon from selling its own branded goods on its site. billion in revenue in 1995 and profits of $2.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2016

The same goes for strategic buyers, who operate within an industry and have an interest in snapping up competitors, with an eye on bolting on new technologies or gleaning the expertise of certain management or development teams. But ease of use and what Rich termed a “plug-and-play” method of adoption become important. “We

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Samsung Ventures. Samsung Ventures. Samsung Catalyst Fund. CASH Capital Investment Management. Samsung Ventures. Brand Capital. Samsung Ventures. Google Ventures. Intel Capital. Salesforce Ventures. Qualcomm Ventures. GE Ventures. Legend Capital. Microsoft Ventures. K Cube Ventures. Fosun RZ Capital.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Walmart Pay released its six-month report card , with some pretty interesting stats: ubiquity at all 4,600+ stores, high usage, high repeat usage, rave reviews from their users and a growing crop of brand evangelists that, Walmart Pay execs say, have become an effective recruiting engine. Woot, woot! The workhorse?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

And this isn’t a small or niche subset of consumers – according to the latest edition of the Digital Consumer Report , a PYMNTS/ Samsung Pay collaboration, 58 percent of consumers reported engaging in contextual commerce. And brands and technologists have to do a lot of work to build trust in these emerging forms, they noted.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable,” Karen Webster wrote about six months into the great bot binge of the extreme excitement gunning up in the ecosystem around them.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Many of these machines are outfitted with electronic payments and not only the traditional debit and credit cards” but also alternative forms of payments, from Apple Pay to Samsung Pay, said Lawlor.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Of Merchant Link’s own client base, Carcillo said half are brand-name businesses, while the other half are smaller businesses, storefronts or franchisees. Project managements have been assigned to different channels, in efforts to understand, explain and guide firms through the changes taking place in the EMV and contactless payments spaces.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

There may only be 10 of those $200, 60-inch ultra-hi-def Samsung TVs the store advertised. Some brands have developed a reputation for periodic 40 percent off sales. One company that has managed to maintain price integrity while becoming an industry giant? Plus, they’ve gotten wise to fixed quantities in-store.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle and a fizzle. Sizzle of the Week (With A Side Of Fizzle): Samsung. Every once and awhile one of the players we review manages to split the decision between a sizzle and a fizzle, and this week that player is Samsung. Or at least Bixby will when available.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Select Investors: Founders Fund, SoftBank Group, NovaQuest Capital Management. Company Description: NuCom is a German company with a portfolio of consumer and lifestyle brands including eharmony, Parship, Flaconi, and Amorelie. Select Investors: KKR, Samsung Ventures, Summit Partners. NuCom Group. Valuation: $2.2B.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

The problem, which seems quite manageable by comparison, is the volume of transactions that are still manually reviewed and the number of false positives that still plague the good guy shoppers in the face of an ever-growing number of transactions happening online. The rub though is that those ads last for only 10 seconds. And does it.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

As such, when consumers do connect with a customer care agent, the calls are more meaningful and complex, according to Gary Praznik, senior vice president and chief operating officer of call center manager iQor. Calls made to contact centers today aren’t just getting more complicated.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Some buyers of the iPhone 8 reported that the brand new smartphone had cracked open due to battery expansion. The true pulse of Apple’s health as a company will not be revealed until the iPhone X hits the scene next month. Assault of Battery.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Old Mutual Global Investors, Artemis Investment Management. In September 2018, OakNorth got $100M in funding from EDBI, NIBC, Clermont Group, and Coltrane Asset Management to further develop Acorn and to expand outside the UK. Select Investors: Clermonth Group, Coltrane Asset Management, Toscafund Asset Management.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The shift in consumer preference is not surprising, LG Electronics Senior Manager Angel Grant told PYMNTS in a conversation, because of how advanced smartphone technology has become. Customers are paying for features, not necessarily brand names, particularly in the developing world. Going Big on New Features: the Foldable Samsung.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

In fact, Visa cardholders won’t be pushed to sign on for ACH – at account signup, Visa cards and ACH will be presented as more or less equal options (in the spirit of giving consumers choice) and any Visa cardholder with an ACH account will be given an opportunity to work with their bank to flip it the other way to a Visa-branded debit product.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

Product Management Software Startup Akeneo In $13M Series B. Managing product information is no small task for retailers, especially as catalogs, once solely a print-based medium, moved onto the web and, more recently, mobile channels. Additionally, Akeneo has 120 enterprise edition clients including Samsung, Shop.com and Amer Sports.

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