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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. Riders with NFC-enabled mobile phones will be able to download the EASY Card, and for those without NFC-enabled phones, the app will provide a display-generated ticket and one with a bar code.

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Five At Five: How Amazon Wields Influence In Real Estate

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In other news, Samsung Pay is making a bid to move beyond payments, and young Chinese consumers recently boosted overseas use of Alipay. Samsung Pay Launches Mobile Shopping And Rewards Features. One of those features uses Bixby, Samsung’s intelligence platform, to enable Samsung Pay users to shop via their smartphone cameras.

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Five Innovative Ways Consumers Shop In The Digital Age

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Connected devices are becoming ingrained in consumer shopping habits: More than 50 percent of shoppers made online purchases in seven of 13 product or service categories in the past seven days, according to the PYMNTS How We Will Pay Report , while 20 percent went online with mobile apps to buy food to eat at home.

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eBay Debuts reCommerce Marketplace

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The consumer electronics side excludes some key brands, such as Apple, Samsung, Dell, Google and Sony. To expand gently used gear to more members across the country, REI launched its online reCommerce business in 2018, supplementing its members-only Garage Sale events in its stores. The effort is loaded up with product guarantees.

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TRENDING: Putting Car-Shopping, Payments In The Mobile Fast Lane

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It’s time to shift gears when it comes to a commonly held perception about millennials and vehicle ownership. After years of believing millennials were disavowing the practice, recent studies indicate the millennial generation is kicking the tires on the concept of owning or leasing their own set of wheels after all.

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Are Contactless Payments Making Cash Obsolete?

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The data also shared that 56 percent of millennials do not feel comfortable carrying cash in their wallet, which could be due to concerns of either spending it all too quickly or losing it. Finance’s Head of Cards, Richard Koch, commented on these findings and shared future projections for this trend.

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PayPal Pivots in Response to Heat from the ‘Pays’

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Are mobile wallets a threat to PayPal’s online payment dominance? In the past two weeks, PayPal has signed agreements with Chase, Citi and Bank of America, in addition to expanding its deal with Visa to issue Visa debit cards in Europe. Mid-Size Financial Institutions Must Pivot, Too.

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