PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

Yesterday (March 8), Samsung Pay went live and online in India, a push done in collaboration with five Indian banks: Axis, HDFC, ICICI, SBI, and Standard Chartered, and credit and debit cards from MasterCard and Visa. Most interestingly, however, is the non-traditional player that is supported by Samsung’s mobile payment entry — Paytm.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The retail giant disclosed via Twitter that it plans to keep most Walmart and Neighborhood Market locations open from 7 a.m. Starting November 14, Walmart stores and Neighborhood Markets will be open 7 AM to 11 PM until further notice. Stores with more reduced hours will keep current hours of operation. local time. to 8:30 p.m.

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The program is operable immediately. Demand for refurbished products has surged, and by securing exclusive rights to inventory sold directly from the most popular manufacturers, eBay is changing the way people shop this category," said Jordan Sweetnam , senior vice president and general manager for eBay's North America market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker, is now operating in the U.K. market, launching its Mi 8 Pro handset in the country on Thursday (Nov. Xiaomi , which is currently the fourth-place player, has a market value of around $44 billion. Xiaomi plans to sell the products online and in-store in the U.K. to the lineup.

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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

JULY 9, 2019

Those three words strike at the heart of identity, and mean so very much when it comes to the efficient operation of the global digital economy and its continuing growth, whether via retail, payments, financial services, healthcare or other areas. ID Data Points. Everything is moving toward digital.”.

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Abrigo

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Takeaway 1 OTP bots are designed to socially engineer a victim into divulging sensitive information associated with online accounts. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a commonly used tool to add an extra layer of security and prevent unauthorized login of online accounts. New Account Takeover Tactics. What is an OTP bot?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

At the same time, new technologies are coming on the market to serve these merchants. President of Operations Richard Ashworth said in an announcement , “Walgreens is focused on making shopping more convenient for our customers. And technology and payments firms are collaborating to bring offerings to market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With the two-headed Facebook-Instagram giant now bustling online marketplaces and not just social sharing platforms anymore, stakes are getting higher faster. Within four years there will be 800 million smartphones in-market with facial recognition scanning capabilities. Smartphone and Registration, Please. Add those to the 4.6

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The move comes as part of a larger targeting of Southeast Asian markets, according to TechCrunch , starting with beginning selected regional services in Singapore in the first quarter of 2017. Nevertheless, Singapore is an appealing first base for Amazon’s operations in Southeast Asia for multiple reasons. Singapore, it turns out.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

Bloomberg pointed to Line , Japan’s largest instant messaging service, and the flea market app Mercari as two companies expanding into digital payments. It also has to contend with competition from PayPal, Ant Financial and Tencent, as well as Apple and Samsung Electronics. SoftBank already owns a stake in Paytm’s parent company.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

Tencent, the Chinese mobile games and social media company, is gearing up to increase its investments in online payments, cloud services and artificial intelligence. The comments came as the Chinese company posted its best-ever quarterly results, thanks to smartphone games, online payments and advertising.

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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. Get our report on the latest tech financing trends, most active investors, and hot industries in Asia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Texas-based national rent-to-own operator Rent-A-Center recently announced that it has nearly completed the nationwide rollout of an end-to-end eCommerce solution. In fact, more than 70 percent of our online customers are shoppers who are either new to Rent-A-Center or who have not done business with us in over one year.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

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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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

To do so, TSYS is linking its Enterprise Tokenization solution to commercial card issuers that support mobile payments made via Apple Pay, Android Pay or Samsung Pay. “We platforms and to have clients in-market already today with these capabilities is further testament to our standing as the leader in the commercial payments market”. “To

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MARCH 31, 2022

It’s imperative for industry leaders to understand the extent to which the pandemic reset employee expectations,” Samsung declared in a 2021 finance and banking report. Many IT, marketing and finance profitability analytics employees are remote. “We Filippin wants these employees to be based in their markets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Walmart Pay comes to market with a few built-in advantages: it leverages the Walmart.com app, which is used by 20M+ people roaming around their stores each month, it works on every sort of smartphone out there, and they control the POS in all of their stores, just like Starbucks does. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital. Woot, woot!

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to new data from CCS Insight, the global wearables market will double in the next four years, hitting a value of $27 billion and 233 million units in sales. Wearables also got a B2B showcase this week, with Samsung and HSBC rolling out S3 gear at the bank’s flagship Fifth Avenue location.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In Australia , as new smartphone models are taking longer to come to market, consumer curiosity is exploring wearables, according to Telsyte. Could Apple and Samsung have purposely delayed new smartphone rollouts in order to ignite wearables? The gloves are off in the fight for Europe’s mobile payments market.

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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. Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. billion won from the previous quarter.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As consumer preferences change and competition becomes more keen, retailers and commerce operators are under even more pressure to get creative with loyalty programs. The latest example of that comes from the NFL.

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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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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

AUGUST 1, 2017

Business Insider noted that Google is going to have to step up its smart home device game if it wants to remain competitive in the coming months, with new devices hitting the shelves from Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and possibly even Facebook. If we do start solving it, there are trillions and trillions of dollars in market opportunity.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

“By adding OT’s Digital Enablement platform to our interoperable and modular platform, Nets will further increase our customers’ capabilities to seamlessly enable international mobile payment means, such as e.g. Samsung Pay for their customers. Every wonder what a fraudster looks like? They can be very versatile. The Voice Of Commerce.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

“They might say that mobile is really important,” posited Norton, “and they might say that real-time payments are important … and that allows us to get a sense of where the market is going.” All while allowing the company to tailor what it is taking to market. One, he said, revolves around security, and the other is operational.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, 95 percent of transactions in in India were done in cash and there were approximately 60 million online shoppers – representing about 14 percent of the internet using base of the nation, according to a late 2017 report by Morgan Stanley. The consensus on that is evolving – and in an interesting way.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

The company closed out Tuesday flat from Monday’s open at $102.63, while pre-market trading on Wednesday pointed back upward, though will likely take more major news — a new deal, a new market, some resolution on the counterfeit controversy — to send stocks out of their plateau in any meaningful way. Far from it, in fact.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In an interview with Karen Webster, Tom Byrnes, Vesta ’s chief marketing officer, stated that a recent study it conducted found a trifecta of retail pressures that were tied to managing costs, while, at the same time, merchants were losing sales to false positives and chargebacks. And if you’re completely digital, it’s 8.6

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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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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Samsung Pay is another option, and in some ways even more user-friendly. While Google Wallet and Samsung Pay are both apps, with all the advantages and headaches that implies, Android Pay is embedded in the operating system. Apple Pay was supposed to set the market on fire, but it just didn’t happen. merchants were ready.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It’s also a time when tech giants are stepping up to create a potential access point or operating layer for consumers wanting to reach the VR/AR world. Whether it’s tech giants like Samsung or Apple or even mediums like Netflix or YouTube, companies are vying to become a hub or connection point for triggering commerce via VR/AR technologies.

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