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Samsung Looks To 5G Retail As Revenue Declines

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Smartphone shipments for Samsung increased in the second quarter of 2019, the company said in its latest earnings report , thanks to retail sales of its mid-level models. As well, Samsung said it plans to “solidify (the) foundation in the global 5G market based on our leadership in 5G commercialization in the U.S. and Korea.”.

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Samsung Electronics To Integrate Bixby With All Its Electronics

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Samsung Electronics is all in on Bixby , its voice-activated digital assistant, with the Financial Times reporting it plans to install Bixby on all its electronics by 2020. Samsung is behind U.S. According to data from market research firm Ovum, Bixby is only used by 6 percent of consumers in the U.S.,

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Mastercard Rolls Out Support Of Samsung Pay In UAE

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Mastercard announced Tuesday (April 4) that Mastercard cardholders from select banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will now be able use the Samsung Pay service to make payments in a quick and secure way. Mastercard said it has been actively driving contactless payments in the market.

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Samsung Levels Sights on Amazon in Bixby Speaker Bout

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Samsung is entering the fray. News came Wednesday that the tech giant – in addition to bringing the Galaxy Note 8 to market next month – is in the midst of working on a smart speaker that will go head to head, or speaker to speaker, with Amazon’s Echo, Google’s Home, and in another upcoming launch, HomePod by Apple.

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Retail Sector To Boost Mobile POS Terminal Market Value To More Than $103B By 2023

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A new report by Global Market Insights reveals that the market size for mobile POS terminals will gain significant growth in the coming years, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 19 percent from 2016 to 2023. According to a press release , the POS Terminal Industry is expected to be valued at $103.52

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Verizon, Microsoft Partner To Accelerate 5G Technology

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To that point, a September report in The Washington Post noted that tests of download speeds on 5G devices were roughly the same as had been seen on 4G phones, raising the question if consumers would be willing to pay more money for essentially the same user experience. Samsung’s View.

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FIDO ED On Google’s Biometric Move Beyond The Password

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“This is the second wave of FIDO adoption,” he told PYMNTS, with a nod to the fact that FIDO has been on market for a while. The first FIDO authentication deployment took place in 2014 when PayPal and Samsung enabled consumer authentication via fingerprints on the Samsung Galaxy S5.

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