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Samsung Pay Crosses 1.3 Billion Transactions, But Falls Short of Apple Pay

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As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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Identity As A Service To The Rescue

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Social media platforms are infested with phonies, and not just your best friend’s irritating co-worker (although he totally is). This is about the fact that fake identities comprise 25 percent of new social media accounts created every day, and that 53 percent of all social media logins are fraudulent , according to a recent study.

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Coronavirus: eBay Prohibits New Listings For Hand Sanitizer, Face Masks; Analysts Lower Facebook Revenue Estimates

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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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Tencent To Increase Investments In Payments

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Tencent, the Chinese mobile games and social media company, is gearing up to increase its investments in online payments, cloud services and artificial intelligence. It marks the biggest gain in seven years for the mobile games and social media company. billion yuan ($2.72 Revenue increased 59 percent to 56.6

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NEW REPORT: How AI And AR Give Makeup A Makeover

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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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Why Contextual Commerce Is Retail’s Future Now

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The Digital Consumer Report , a Samsung Pay collaboration, aims to illuminate the role of AI and machine learning in transforming how consumers and merchants think about customer service in the retail sector. For more on this, take a look at the feature story. About the Report.

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Amazon Streaming Gain Comes Amid Bigger Industry Changes

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According to a report , the Fire TV platform from the eCommerce operator “now has over 40 million users. Zigbee Alliance board member companies like IKEA, Samsung SmartThings and Silicon Labs, among others, have also joined the working group to make contributions to the effort, according to the Dec. 18 announcement. Google’s Move.

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