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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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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. Samsung May Beat Android Pay And Apple Pay In Tapping The African Market. Hot on the heels of M-Pesa, Samsung plans to initiate payment services in South Africa in the first quarter of 2017.

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Swift Prepaid, Bitty Pair Up For Virtual Merchant Cash Advances

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In a press release issued Tuesday, Swift Prepaid said it will integrate its prepaid services to enable Bitty small business customers immediate access to virtual funds after they secure a merchant cash advance. The funds can then be uploaded to a mobile wallet, including Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay.

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eBay Debuts reCommerce Marketplace

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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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Bustlingly Busy, Visa’s Vistas Expand

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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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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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The Big Voice Showdown In Vegas

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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. No device, no Alexa. Bixby comes built in. Google Goes Big.

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