PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

The app has the potential to fit into the emerging trend of smart kitchens, particularly as manufacturers of household appliances — such as Samsung — seek to integrate smart technology into their products. The company, which has operations in Silicon Valley and India, currently has seven employees.

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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 program is operable immediately. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

In the March mPOS Tracker , PYMNTS explores the new mPOS uptake, as well as how mPOS providers are launching solutions into new markets, boosting their presence where they already operate and partnering to expand their reaches. How Restaurant Operators are Driving mPOS Evolutions. Around the mPOS World.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

The financial services company recently debuted a new partnership with Russian phone operator and telecom provider MegaFon. The two collaborated on a payments solution designed to enable MegaFon subscribers to make purchases or pay bills via their smartphone using Apple Pay or Samsung Pay and a linked virtual Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Big Tech Battle of Market Caps : Amazon’s market cap has hit a significant milestone. With a new high of $900 a share, the company’s recent market cap stood at more than $430 billion. That’s nearly twice the market cap of Walmart and has three times the revenue of that stalwart eCommerce player. The lesson here?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Unlike the US, where the smartphone market is divided between a small number of key players, in Asia there are many companies vying to become the dominant smartphone provider, from global giants to smaller local startups. Using CB Insights data, we mapped out the key emerging Asian smartphone brands challenging established players.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

As of early 2019, Amazon and Google are the two main competitors for that crown, and they are not quite equally matched insofar as Amazon’s market share is greater. Among the highlights were Alexa’s smart TV expansion – particularly into models made by LG and Samsung. Google Goes Big.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Fitness technology firm Fitbit is coming close to acquiring Pebble, the smartwatch maker, in a transaction that Venturebeat.com says will “spell the end of the Pebble brand” with an attendant purchase price of $34 million to $40 million. The firm competes in a smartwatch arena dominated by Apple and Samsung.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Updates to the operating system are released periodically.”. Google holds the best position to control the Android ecosystem, but only to the degree it can be controlled — with tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of different flavors of Android devices currently in the market. Think Android Pay and Samsung Pay.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2018

From concept to its launch in January of 2018, Amazon Go took five years to make it to market with its first location, found on the ground floor of the firm’s new headquarters. According to its internal numbers, Lyft now controls 35 percent of the national ridesharing market, up from 20 percent 18 months ago.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The firm is reporting its strongest growth rate in two years as it picks up market share on Android. Analysts noted that Samsung’s recall of its competitor device, the Galaxy Note 7, has been Apple’s and the iPhone’s gain. Apple has also seen strength in its associated services, according to Apple Marketing Chief Phil Schiller.

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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. Apple got pushed out of the number-two spot in terms of smartphone shipments for the Q2 of 2018, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). million units, and record-high market shares of 15.8

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

According to Morgan Stanley – India’s eCommerce market will be worth $200 billion by 2026 and see participation from 50 percent of India’s internet user base. Amazon’s international operating loss grew 29 percent to $622 million in the first quarter, partly due to its expansion push in India. Great Expectations And Big Buy-Ins.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

FREE DOWNLOAD: THE COMPLETE LIST of investors in the voice market. We also dive into the Chinese market to see how US big tech stands to compete. Spotlight: Voice across the Chinese market. This is another way Google hopes to grab market share of the hospitality industry. The race to conquer voice is on. Source: Google.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2018

That’s the thinking behind a deal announced on July 26 with mobile wallet provider CARDFREE that gives the chain a “perpetual license to the software used to build and operate the (Dunkin’) mobile ordering and payment platform.”. million users) and Samsung Pay (9.9 This year, 23.4 That puts it slightly ahead of the 22.0 Google Pay (11.1

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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. And this week was no exception. Apple Inc.’s

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

In launching its new ePort Interactive products and services, USA Technologies is seeking to enable what Lawlor describes as “the next generation of retailing” for unattended retail markets, including vending, kiosk and commercial laundry, among others. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Branded mostly accurately as Google’s first branded phone, the new Pixel certainly got a very big introduction to the wider world. The Daydream seems more directly aimed at casual users who are already using Nougat powered Android smartphones, and it is priced for that less hardcore market at $79.

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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. Now, the space has fine-tuned a bit to embrace certain verticals, such as restaurants, for example, or retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

As more banks, industries, companies and even retail brands take on and use blockchain technology in their business, there are the enhanced and innate elements of efficiency and security. “A In addition to lower operating costs, this will reduce the ‘settlement risks’ and hence capital involved in that transaction.

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CB Insights

APRIL 23, 2019

Companies vying to take a 5G lead range from network provider Verizon to device maker Samsung to chipset maker Qualcomm, among many others. Despite significant potential profits in the consumer market, AT&T has indicated that it expects the majority of revenue growth derived from its 5G technologies will come from the enterprise sector.

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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. Mobile purchases is one on the consumer side, he said, and mobile marketing is among the “next big thing[s]” on the corporate side.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2018

McDonald’s, the high holy of fast food culture, marked National Selfie Day with a promotion that gave out styluses with which customers could operate their phones without using their “greasy” fingers, according to The Washington Post. Brands are turning narcissism into cold hard cash.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

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. Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. Operator East Japan Railway Company alone served 17.4 The news from the U.K.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

This is the percentage of all Merchant Link orders that are for EMV terminals — a transition, said Carcillo, that “has really taken off in the market segments we serve, in retail and hospitality.”. That’s the number of Merchant Link customers that are asking about contactless payment — with the operative word being “asking.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

Rather, carrier billing operates exactly like it sounds, billing those charges through the mobile phone carrier and showing up on a user’s monthly phone bill. market in particular has been a little late to the carrier billing party. via carrier billing that they’ve experienced in other markets around the world. CHANGING THE U.S.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Combined, these 31 European startups have raised more than $21B in total funding, and operate across industries including fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, and more. Company Description: This UK-based company operates data centers in Europe and Asia. Auto1 Group now has operations in more than 30 countries. Global Switch.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2017

Soul Machines’ development of emotionally fueled avatars is part of a recent wave that is spurring the development of the self-service software market, which is reportedly anticipated to grow from $4.47 billion in 2016 to $9.59 billion by 2021.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle and a fizzle. SMBs: Small business operators remained optimistic into March as data from Capital One stated that half of smaller firms surveyed see optimism about the current business climate, which is better by 9 percent than a year ago. Or at least Bixby will when available.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The country’s internet user base grew nearly 22% in 2017, making it one of Asia’s fastest-growing internet markets. In part, this is due to the fact that its population size pales in comparison to other high-growth countries like India, which offers a substantially larger addressable market.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

With VocaLink added to its network assets, Mastercard has a way to spread its payments wings digitally, including enabling direct debit transactions, becoming the world’s interoperable faster payments and threading the regulatory needle in a market where interchange has been forced to pretty close to zero. The problem reported: speed.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2017

In this week’s Grocery Tracker, Panasonic shows off its automatic grocery-bagging robot, two new smart fridges come to market and Sprouts sprouts new locations, while Kmart drops a few. In brick-and-mortar news, Sprouts Farmers Market plans to open 11 new stores across five U.S. For stores that plan on keeping checkout around, anyway.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, stating the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. In developed markets, 4G will move to 5G with 15 percent of mobile phones connected, and to 5G five years from now.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, starting the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. In developed markets, 4G will move to 5G with 15 percent of mobile phones connected, and to 5G five years from now.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

And the cooling passion for rapidly replacing phones is paired with a waning enthusiasm for the highest end phones on the market, according to research from Gartner. I think the data in the global market attests to that,” Grant said. Customers are paying for features, not necessarily brand names, particularly in the developing world.

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NCR

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The fact that 22 million consumers already use the Wal-Mart app every month means it has a potential head start in this key market. As we all know, that market is already crowded. Samsung Pay has a variation on that platform too, with the support of the global electronics conglomerate. For the record, this is a massive market.

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