PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Months after Apple CEO Tim Cook said CVS would be accepting Apple Pay, the retailer has brought support for the mobile wallet to stores across the country. The retailer had reportedly slowly brought the functionality to its brick-and-mortar stores, and the rollout has now been publicized, MacRumors reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Many other retailers are trying cashierless checkout systems, including Sam’s Club, Kroger and 50 Meijer stores in the Midwest. So while retailers are becoming more aggressive, the Meijer numbers are the first indication that consumers will use cashierless technology at scale. According to GPShopper , nearly half of U.S.

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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

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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DECEMBER 18, 2019

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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Brands and marketplaces now make it simple to auto-refill all sorts of products such as pet food and paper towels. Mastercard: Inside The Samsung Pay ‘Super Card’. One of the most recent developments in this space was the announcement of the Samsung Pay Card , which is powered by Curve and Mastercard technology.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Much of the 5G focus at CES will indeed revolved around connected cars, which is understandable, given how the mobile and automotive industry are on course to become very close siblings in the coming years, enabling more seamless forms of payments and retailing. The robots aren’t just coming — they are, of course, already here.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

Shopper intelligence platform eyeQ announced that it has secured $3.5 “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.”. million in a Series A funding round to further develop its in-store display technology.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Android Pay launched in the US a few days ago, and Samsung Pay is expected to be available there soon as well. Android ecosystem offers more choice: Android Pay, Samsung Pay, HCE and SIM for NFC, but what about P2P and other payments? Should a bank just stick with Apple Pay or enable their cards with all the “pays”?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Large companies like Samsung , Apple , and Huawei have traditionally dominated the Asian smartphones market, but in recent years, new makers have slowly emerged to chip away at that dominance. Using CB Insights data, we mapped out the key emerging Asian smartphone brands challenging established players. Asia Tech Investment Report.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This self-styled “ear computer” is already on its second generation, as brand-name competitors like Samsung and Apple are only just starting to wet their toes in the idea of hearables. Samsung’s generation one Gear IconX hearables cut the cord with wires, yet reportedly left a bit to be desired. In-Ear Hearables.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2017

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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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 And that security is indeed a concern and need for multiple parties. “At billion for a typical lender.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Literally every business and brand in China is plugged into this ecosystem.”. When looking at the top two methods, consumer confusion about how to use the system is on the decline, as are concerns about the relative security of mobile next to more familiar form factors. story, on the other hand, is far different.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

But let’s not forget the role of the teenager in digital retail, financial services and transactions. 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.” Retail and Teenagers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

Petersburg, Florida-based company manages contact center operations for health care companies, financial services firms and consumer goods tech giants like Samsung. Securing the Call. Perhaps more important than verifying the customer on the call is ensuring the security of the interaction on the contact center’s end, Praznik noted.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

The cookies are popular enough to even inspire Thin Mint-flavored coffees from major brands like Dunkin’ – but sales often hit a stumbling block at the point of sale: Many troops only accept cash. The cookies may be popular, but Girl Scouts can’t capitalize on that if passersby aren’t carrying a payment method they accept.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The most transformative innovations in payments and commerce over the last decade are mostly the result of innovators making what was once visible, invisible: payments, stores, merchants, brands, issuers, even card networks. I just take it for granted that it all works.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Regular retail experienced just 14 percent growth year-over-year, suggesting on-demand is fast emerging as a developing segment for digital commerce brands. TPV, or about 20 percent of online retailing, according to FDC estimates. Spending on digital goods and services is responsible for $90 billion in U.S.

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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. Samsung Pay provides gift cards from Dunkin’ Donuts, and users earn money with its own rewards prepaid card. But security is an ever-present concern.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

The mobile wallet is “more than just a payment method,” according to the white paper, which means that the stakes are high for both financial institutions and retailers, as they need to include mobile shopping in their basket of shopping and banking technology and payment options.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2020

12), as Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy XCover Pro, an enterprise-grade smartphone that comes pre-installed with Visa’s Tap to Phone app. The partnership with Samsung is the first time the Tap to Phone software has been integrated into a device. Optimizing the Digital Transformation of Retail .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2018

Granted, he had to sit motionless for up to 15 minutes, according to estimates, but he got the job done and secured his place in history (or, least, earned a page on Wikipedia). Retailers are also relying more on selfies — or at least experimenting with the form. Brands are turning narcissism into cold hard cash.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And for one firm, cloud gateway and data security provider Merchant Link , the process proceeds apace for hospitality and dining firms looking for certification, according to CIO Scott Carcillo. EMV is nowhere near finished, a year and a half after the much-heralded liability shift in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

However, given the interests and investment in VR (and AR) tech from likes Alphabet/Google, Samsung, Apple, Intel and HTC, among others, buying in on VR seems a lot less like a quirky investment in a boy’s toy from the point of view of 2017 than it did in 2014. and all over the world. The Power of the Payment.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Mastercard started with week with an announcement of how its Mastercard Send product would extend the reach and the speed of Early Warning’s clearXchange P2P network for bank customers with a Mastercard branded debit product. The networks are happy because they are the proud recipients of tons of brand new transaction volume.

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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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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. Samsung pushing premium 5G devices. In August 2018, Samsung announced it planned to invest approximately $22B in 5G and AI technologies over the course of the next three years.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

The biometric software behind facial recognition applications can identify facial structures, contours, and expressions, making it a no-brainer for security and identification purposes. Linking facial recognition to personalization for shoppers presents a big opportunity in retail. Law Enforcement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

” When Android Pay launched , it had the backing of all the major card brands, along with a handful of issuers, and it used NFC technology to enable payments in-store. As part of a new promotion, Verizon is offering up to 2GB of free data if customers use Android Pay at a retailer that accepts the mobile payments option.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Apple is the richest “family” in the neighborhood, and its taste is so legendarily good that it’s literally sued its neighbors over in the (recently on fire) Samsung House to prevent it from copying the design. A quick visual survey of both tech hardware and tech retail locations indicate that what Apple designs, others will imitate.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

“Today, we are seeing other form factors emerging, beyond just the credit card, including the watch, the bracelet, the payment ring and the car one day,” Chris Curtin, chief of brand and innovation marketing officer at Visa, told RCR Wireless News. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple. Hackers Go For Gold In Rio.

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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. There are Pays courtesy of mobile operating systems, like iOS/Apple and Android/Google and Samsung.

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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. There are Pays courtesy of mobile operating systems, like iOS/Apple and Android/Google and Samsung.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Microsoft and Apple are focusing on developing patents to dig into privacy and security, factors that are still hampering voice, with Microsoft going so far as to patent a way to whisper commands into smart devices. ” Amazon now claims to have 28K smart home devices enabled with Alexa across 4,500 unique brands. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Today’s coverage includes the latest move by Walmart to gain on Amazon and its other retail rivals, along with news about Amazon’s speaker success. Other findings from a new report revealed that when asked to name one brand they would choose for their next smart speaker, 54 percent of consumers choose either Amazon, Google or Apple.

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