PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It was a solid earnings report for Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2017, as earnings surged due to strong sales of the manufacturer’s memory chips, the company said in an announcement. But on the downside, Samsung faced challenges with its System LSI and Foundry businesses, as weak seasonality impacted the growth of those product lines.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

At the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Big Show 2017, Samsung Electronics has unveiled its latest physical retail innovations: IoT-enabled digital solutions for traditional brick-and-mortar stores that enable an actively engaging, personalized mobile-first customer shopping experience. Samsung’s solutions include consumer data measurement.

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MARCH 11, 2019

But interest in this technology is not limited to the food and beverage space, and is gaining traction in many different verticals. At the same time, new technologies are coming on the market to serve these merchants. The global POS terminal market’s expected value by 2023 is $109.5B.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In other news, Telefónica plans to experiment with a system based on blockchain technology, enabling individuals to benefit from their personal information, CoinDesk reported. It gives us the opportunity to add a trust layer to operations, and design new disruptive services.”. Samsung announced on Wednesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

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. In its official statement , Samsung gave Apple the equivalent of a corporate tongue wag. 26): The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

This time last year, battery issues in the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 created a series of unfortunate problems that resulted in a ban on the devices by the FAA , an expensive recall and damage to Samsung’s share price in the aftermath. Overall, the saga of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 had shaved $14.3 It’s just that Samsung grew more.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

Telecom executives whose companies are spending billions of dollars implementing 5G technologies hope Apple’s new 5G-capable iPhone will amplify what so far has been muted consumer interest in the faster networks, the Financial Times reports.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

trillion in quarterly operating profit, explaining that “stronger smartphone sales and improved utilization in mobile OLED screens were weighed down by continued weakness in the memory chip market.”. Samsung had posted KRW 65.46 trillion in operating profit in Q3 2018. The company posted KRW 62 trillion ($53.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The second week of October also saw JPMC betting big on the blockchain, Google getting into hardware in a big way and Samsung having yet another explosive week — but not the good kind. Speaking of going wrong… More Phones On Fire For Samsung. More bad news for Samsung. And that’s just the first course. megapixel camera.

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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 6, 2020

The coronavirus could have wide-reaching effects on technology manufacturing, eCommerce marketplaces and the economy as a whole. 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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Financial institutions are in the midst of becoming more mobile, with many of those legacy operations opting to — or at least considering — working more closely with FinTech providers to upgrade services, retain customers and acquire new ones. The debut of 5G promises to add another tool that can aid such efforts. What does that mean, then?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase. Google Goes Big.

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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

APRIL 30, 2018

South Korea’s Korea Credit Data, a FinTech startup that operates in the small- and medium-sized business accounting software market, said it is exploring an entrance into the world of blockchain. Blockchain is a core platform to fuel our digital transformation.”.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

He is accused of setting up and operating Darkode, a black marketplace that operated between 2008 and 2013, as well as creating and deploying Mariposa, one of the largest botnets. And Samsung-backed Blocko is now in the UAE after it secured funding in Asia Pacific and Europe.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Combined, the two Chinese companies have a market share of around 40 percent, the report noted. Half of this (additional cost) would be due to European operators being impacted by higher input costs following the significant loss of competition in the mobile equipment market,” the report said.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Card issuers are fielding new technologies and utilizing next-gen identity verification technology to expose the fakers and make social media — and the wider digital domain — safe for kitten vids and funny memes again. Within four years there will be 800 million smartphones in-market with facial recognition scanning capabilities.

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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. is one of the important global centers for technology,” Wang said in the interview before the Mi 8 Pro was launched. had a “cool” factor that meshed with its appeal to customers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

The iPhone assembler Foxconn Technology Group reported disappointing net profits for Q2 that were below analysts’ expectations. Foxconn is adopting a long-term perspective by investing in new technologies and cutting costs at its latest acquisition, Sharp. 37.1% | The percentage drop in operating income.

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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. Then, Google announced it was buying Softcard’s technology.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

The adoption of IoT technology is still nascent, but startups are attracting investors keen to be part of the emerging industry. Sigfox is already in 24 countries , plans to gain six more and two countries on its list are China and India because of the burgeoning mobile markets.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Fitness technology firm Fitbit is coming close to acquiring Pebble, the smartwatch maker, in a transaction that Venturebeat.com says will “spell the end of the Pebble brand” with an attendant purchase price of $34 million to $40 million. The firm competes in a smartwatch arena dominated by Apple and Samsung.

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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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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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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.”. Biometric Markers.

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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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JULY 20, 2016

Biometric technology is becoming an increasingly important part of the payments industry, as organizations look for reliable, fast and convenient methods of authentication. But which biometrics technologies are likely to have the biggest impact on the payments industry? Fingerprints. Voice recognition . Ear acoustics .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This week, the largest funding round went to a B2B startup developing autonomous trucking technology to boost fleet efficiency, with other rounds landing at small business bookkeeping, workforce communications, and IBAN fraud mitigation startups for a combined $236 million-plus landing at B2B startups.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

VC firms’ largest show of support was for artificial intelligence (AI), and there was a substantial growth equity round for a veteran treasury technology firm. This week, the company announced it had raised $750,000 from Frontline Ventures and other backers, which the firm will use to launch operations in the U.K. DeePhi Tech.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

FREE DOWNLOAD: THE COMPLETE LIST of investors in the voice market. Google is releasing voice capability in over 30 languages, is moving into areas like healthcare and travel, and looking to develop its AI technology Duplex to enable “natural conversations.” Spotlight: Voice across the Chinese market. Source: KPCB.

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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. A majority of Rent-A-Center customers will now have the ability to complete transactions from desktop and mobile devices on Rent-A-Center’s website.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

That’s the conversation that Mike Lawlor, Chief Services Officer at USA Technologies , and Karen Webster had recently, where they kicked around the notion of “remote retail” as a new way to frame the unattended or vending segment. It could also be what could transform what used to be called the “unattended” or “vending” industry.

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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 In addition to lower operating costs, this will reduce the ‘settlement risks’ and hence capital involved in that transaction.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

With increasingly more global connections and advancing technology to support them, consumers around the world expect to be able to access digital commerce solutions quickly, easily and conveniently. Samsung, meanwhile, announced it would bring its mobile payment platform to China. So how are developers answering the call?

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