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 Samsung Eyes Blockchain Smartphone?

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Said sites including thenextweb.com , Samsung, no small player in mobile devices, submitted three trademark requests in Europe that offer up some clues into blockchain-focused phones. The bank said that fellow participants in the transaction included Region Brokerage Company and the Russian National Settlement Depository (NSD).

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London FinTech Curve Notches $95 Million Series C For US Expansion

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London-based FinTech startup Curve has raised $95 million in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures, Fuel Venture Capital, and the investment division of Vulcan Capital, launched from the estate of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Founder and Curve CEO Shachar Bialick said in a press release on Tuesday (Jan.

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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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In Emerging Markets, What Comes First: The mPOS Or The Consumer?

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This can become increasingly difficult in emerging markets, where Kunal Patel, global head of product strategy and mobile payments at GoSwiff , explained that merchants are focused on operating in cash-driven economies. KW: How do you get the consumers — who, in many of these markets, are very cash-centric — on board?

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June’s Top 12 Mobile Pay Moments

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And what better way to mark that milestone than with a monthly recap of the Top 12 news items in one major market in the payments ecosystem: mobile payments. Samsung Pay’s European Debut. On June 2, Samsung Pay officially launched in Spain, bringing the mobile wallet into its first European country.

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Samsung’s Neon, 2020 Trendlines, Faster Payments Top This Week’s News

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Samsung To Launch ‘Artificial Human’ Called Neon. Samsung will introduce an “ artificial human ” named Neon on Jan. The limited information about Neon was shared on the Twitter account of Samsung and includes an “Artificial Human” teaser in several languages with the tagline “Have you met an ‘artificial’?”.

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Island Pay Plans Contactless Rollout In The Bahamas; UnionPay Brings App To Hong Kong And Macau

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The platform will run on Samsung Semiconductor secure chip technology, as well as software from the Swiss FinTech firm Smartlink. “By And UnionPay International is launching the UnionPay app in Macau and Hong Kong to bring a mobile payment experience to the markets, according to reports.

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