PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Samsung Electronics , the South Korean consumer electronics company, is expanding in India, opening on Tuesday (Sept. According to a report in Reuters , citing Samsung Electronics, the 33,000-square-foot store is located in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru. 11) its largest mobile store in the world.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

As retail shifts further into online spaces, the pressure is on for traditional stores to integrate digital features into their physical spaces to keep consumers interested. Samsung’s booth at the NRF Big Show 2017 showcases a retail journey from beginning to end using the company’s innovations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Such seems to be the motto over at Samsung with the news that it will be hiring the team that built Siri. Samsung has announced that it will acquire Viv Labs — founded by the creators of Apple’s Siri — for an as-yet-undisclosed sum of money. So, why is Samsung buying the tech and the team that built it? ”

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

and China impacts the global markets for smartphones and chips, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. predicts a sharp drop in operating profit for the second quarter. Operating profit for April through June likely dropped 56 percent to $5.6 As the trade war between the U.S. billion or 6.5 Intensified U.S.-China

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

Retailers are becoming more interested in omnichannel offerings: The PYMNTS mPOS Tracker found that 67 percent of those surveyed listed it as a priority for this year. At the same time, new technologies are coming on the market to serve these merchants. And technology and payments firms are collaborating to bring offerings to market.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Samsung posted its best operating profit ever in its first-quarter 2018 earnings results, but the manufacturer also had other news: A slowdown is looming for its display panel unit, which makes organic light-emitting diode screens for its own smartphones and Apple’s iPhone X. trillion Korean won ($14.5 trillion Korean won ($56.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The numbers are in, and Apple officially outdid Samsung when it came to holiday sales this year. This means that for every Samsung device activated during the holiday season, Apple saw two. This year, 44 percent of new phone and tablet activations were Apple devices with Samsung seeing 21 percent.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Most of the time, the big battles in retail take place on the battlefields of brick-and-mortar storefronts and customers’ keyboards. Reuters reported that, despite a string of losses in the courtroom and an order to pay Apple $120 million in damages for patent infringement, Samsung received a bit of good news on Friday (Feb.

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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.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Things have managed to go from bad to worse to nearly incalculably awful for Samsung in the course of the last few days. It seems the replacement Galaxy Note 7 phones — the ones pushed to market to replace the 2.5 And it seems that no one will be getting a new Galaxy Note 7 until Samsung figures out exactly what is going on.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

It’s what’s turned the retail word upside down as consumers with their mobile devices have decided they’d rather buy from their couch with their mobile phone than schlep to the mall. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail. Meeting the consumer where they are. That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Mike Lawlor, chief services officer of USA Technologies, dove into the innovations that have marked the unattended retail space. The same principle applies to the other retailers who want to broaden their presence to consumers, physically, to be where those people “work, play and transit.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Samsung will move a portion of its domestic phone manufacturing to Vietnam because of the quick spread of the coronavirus and temporarily shutter its facility in Gumi, the Financial Times reported. Samsung said it would “return Gumi’s production to normal levels when appropriate.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

Reuters reported Monday (July 8) that a sudden escalation in a diplomatic disagreement between South Korea and Japan has rattled the South Korean chipmaker market. Industry executives told the publication that technology giants including Samsung Electronics Co. Samsung Vice Chairman Jay Y.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) adoption is becoming increasingly high on retailers’ to-do lists. 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.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Meanwhile, retailers are scrambling to develop and translate the personalized experience consumers desire into digital features for these devices, using data as well as artificial intelligence and augmented reality. The financial services company recently debuted a new partnership with Russian phone operator and telecom provider MegaFon.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

The company, which surpassed Samsung as the top smartphone maker in India for four quarters, is one of the most valuable companies in the world. The company relies on three financial benchmarks — devices, retail and services — and it hasn’t monetized any of its services just yet.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

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. Yes, you read that last one right. The Numi 2.0 Google Goes Big.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

So where to next for the omnichannel retail giant? 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. Its small size makes establishing an operation simple. Singapore, it turns out.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Essential Products, the smartphone company that was started by Andy Rubin — the creator of the Android mobile operating system — has raised $300 million in venture funding from big name investors like Tencent and Amazon. Best Buy and Amazon will also become retail partners for the company in the U.S., reported the Wall Street Journal.

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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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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Over a year ago, we published a 2014 edition of our annual Top Retail Payment Trends Report ( 2015 edition is here ), in which we distinguished between app-based wallets – majority of mobile payments solutions in the market at that point – and device-based wallets. My guess is that it won’t.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Updates to the operating system are released periodically.”. Google holds the best position to control the Android ecosystem, but only to the degree it can be controlled — with tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of different flavors of Android devices currently in the market. Think Android Pay and Samsung Pay.

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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. Everything is moving toward digital.”.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Credit rating agency Moody’s said the Singapore Quick Response Code (SGQR) could encourage adoption of mobile payments by both retailers and consumers. The company is also accepting mobile payments via Google Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

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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. had a “cool” factor that meshed with its appeal to customers. to the lineup.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The new option could possibly entice some to make the move to Apple Music, especially those who don’t want to purchase a costlier HomePod speaker, which retails for between $299 and $349. The Google Home Mini is significantly less expensive at $50.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

But for the later-adopting end of the market — the consumers and merchants that had heretofore shied away from digital — the past six months have marked the start of a transformation. The New Samsung Pay Card . But the Samsung Pay Card powered by Curve works differently.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

billion IoT devices on the market by 2020. With new abilities and functionality, standard household machines like refrigerators are poised to change how modern kitchens and households operate. Samsung sees the refrigerator as the optimal platform to offer this connectivity. The new kitchen lifestyle’. “The

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Bank of America Corporation and JPMorgan Chase & Company have seen a drop in combined income from card operations of 15 percent to $3.1 Well, at least the customer is happy, which is what counts in the retail world, so let’s go with that and look at the rewards and loyalty news for this week. Samsung Has Extended The Fig Leaf.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2018

From concept to its launch in January of 2018, Amazon Go took five years to make it to market with its first location, found on the ground floor of the firm’s new headquarters. According to its internal numbers, Lyft now controls 35 percent of the national ridesharing market, up from 20 percent 18 months ago.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Venturebeat said that Pebble had been on the block and that this price range would go down as a “reversal of fortunes” for Pebble, which had come to market via Kickstarter and a $7 million kick-off of its first smartwatch. The firm competes in a smartwatch arena dominated by Apple and Samsung. Will Pebble help kickstart Fitbit?

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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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